The Gerard W. Ostheimer lecture is delivered at the Society for Obstetric Anesthesia and Perinatology Annual Meeting. The lecture provides a comprehensive review of the previous year's literature in obstetric anesthesia, obstetrics, perinatology, and health services research relevant for obstetric anesthesiologists. This article covers several of the major themes that ...

ABSTRACT: BACKGROUND: In the course of the last four decades, the profession of physiotherapy has progressively expanded its scope of responsibility and its focus on professional autonomy and evidence-based clinical practice. To preserve professional autonomy, it is crucial for the physiotherapy profession to meet society's expectations and demands of professional ...

While much attention is paid to the early days of organized regional anesthesia in North America under the leadership of Gaston Labat in New York, there was a period of decline in energy and activity in those techniques after the demise of his original American Society of Regional Anesthesia in ...

: To estimate prevalence and correlates of abortion provision among practicing obstetrician-gynecologists (ob-gyns) in the United States. : We conducted a national probability sample mail survey of 1,800 practicing ob-gyns. Key variables included whether respondents ever encountered patients seeking abortions in their practice and whether they provided abortion services. Correlates ...

In this paper we introduce narrative and hermeneutical perspectives to clinical ethics support services (CESS). We propose a threefold consideration of 'theory' and show how it is interwoven with 'practice' as we go along. First, we look at theory in its foundational role: in our case 'narrative ethics' and 'philosophical ...

In this article, we argue that a critical examination of epistemological and anthropological presuppositions might lead to a more fruitful use of theory in clinical-ethical practice. We differentiate between two views of conceptualizing ethics, referring to Charles Taylors' two epistemological models: 'monological' versus 'dialogical consciousness'. We show that the conception ...

Propofol, which is the most commonly used drug for induction of general anaesthesia, has also become a popular drug for procedural sedation. Because its use may be associated with serious and potentially fatal side-effects, the manufacturers of propofol restrict its use solely to personnel trained in general anaesthesia. In spite ...

This paper describes a second generation Simulator for Engineering Ethics Education. Details describing the first generation activities of this overall effort are published in Chung and Alfred (Sci Eng Ethics 15:189-199, 2009). The second generation research effort represents a major development in the interactive simulator educational approach. As with the ...

In May 2009, as the H1N1 swine flu outbreak was in the early stages, a conference was held at the New York Academy of Sciences to discuss what was known about the virus and what was being done to stop the outbreak. In May 2010, a follow-up conference was again ...

The 2009 International Society of Urological Pathology consensus conference in Boston, made recommendations regarding the standardization of pathology reporting of radical prostatectomy specimens. The activities of the conference were coordinated through five workgroups. The results are presented in five separate reports covering (1) specimen handling, (2) T2 substaging and prostate ...

The '2009 2nd Italian Consensus Conference on LDL-apheresis' was held in Rome, Italy, 15 May 2009. The latest scientific evidence and the information processed in more than two decades of LDL-apheresis application require new guidelines. Experts were invited by the Consensus Panel to give a scientific specific contribution in their ...

Conference proceedings, although an importance source to learn about new interventions, are brief and not subject to external evaluation prior to publication. Studies in human medicine suggest that trial results from conference proceedings may be poorly reported. The primary objective of this study was to evaluate characteristics of veterinary vaccine ...

This paper discusses the organization of the Bradford Woods Conference in Indiana that began optometry think tank meetings in 1954, the Allenberry Conference held annually for many years starting in 1967, and the Blue Sky Conference in Michigan that started concurrently with Allenberry. These were freewheeling meetings with enthusiastic exchange ...

The inaugural Applied Pharmaceutical Analysis-India (APA-India) conference was held between 21 and 24 February 2010 in Hyderabad, India. The theme of the 2010 APA-India meeting was "The best of bioanalytical science in India: the role of bioanalysis and absorption, distribution, metabolism and excretion in translational medicine". The conference brought together ...

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Conference proceedings, although an importance source to learn about new interventions, are brief and not subject to external evaluation prior to publication. Studies in human medicine suggest that trial results from conference proceedings may be poorly reported. The primary objective of this study was to evaluate characteristics of veterinary vaccine ...

The 12th Annual Superbugs and Superdrugs conference, held in London, included topics covering new therapeutic developments in the field of antimicrobial research. This conference report highlights selected presentations on antimicrobial peptides, addressing bacterial resistance, and new treatments for bacterial infections. Investigational drugs discussed include DPK-060 (DermaGen AB), DAV-132 (Da Volterra), ...

In March, the third annual JWC conference was held. Its theme was twofold: how to fulfil the requirements of the quality agenda and, in so doing, show that tissue viability is worthy of further investment, placing it firmly on the map.

OBJECTIVE: The purpose of this article is to describe a stack mode viewer that is fully embeddable in PowerPoint and does not require external files. CONCLUSION: We developed a Web-based service named "RadViewer" that creates a Flash-based stack mode viewer and that is automatically embedded into PowerPoint. Features include mouse ...

The JPMorgan Healthcare conference, held in San Francisco, included presentations by various pharmaceutical companies summarizing their achievements in 2009 and expectations for 2010. This conference report highlights presentations from Forest Laboratories Inc and Icagen Inc. Investigational drugs from Forest Laboratories, including roflumilast (in collaboration with Nycomed Inc/Mitsubishi Tanabe Pharma Corp), ...

The third Central and Eastern European Proteomic Conference was held at Hotel Benzcur, Budapest, Hungary, from the 6-9 October 2009. The meeting was the third in a series of proteomic conferences to be held in this region of Europe, with the key aim of strengthening the links with scientists from ...

The Interscience Conference on Antimicrobial Agents and Chemotherapy held in San Francisco included topics covering new therapeutic developments for the treatment of infectious diseases. This conference report highlights selected presentations on several antibiotics in development including a broad-spectrum penem beta-lactam antibiotic, a novel siderophore monobactam, as well as other novel ...

This conference was arranged by the Extension Services in Pharmacy at the University of Wisconsin School of Pharmacy. The purpose of this annual 4-day conference is to provide an educational forum to discuss issues and applications associated with the analysis of xenobiotics and metabolites in biological matrices. The conference is ...

Advances in our understanding of the many levels of regulation of TGFbeta and BMP signaling were reported at the recent FASEB Summer Conference entitled ;The TGFbeta Superfamily: Development and Disease', which was held in Carefree, Arizona, USA, on the northern edge of the Sonoran Desert. This conference was the fifth ...

The 3rd annual DGVS Spring Conference of the German Society for Gastroenterology (Deutsche Gesellschaft f?r Verdauungs- und Stoffwechselkrankheiten) was held at the Seminaris Campus Hotel in Berlin, Germany, on 8-9 May, 2009. The conference was organized by Roland Schmid and Matthias Ebert from the Technical University of Munich, Germany. The ...

The 6th Global College of Neuroprotection and Neuroregeneration (GCNN) and 5th Society for Study on Neuroplasticity and Neuroregeneration (SSNN) conference was held jointly in the Hilton Hotel, Vienna, Austria, 1-4 March 2009. This was the second annual joint conference of the two societies and it was highly successful from a ...

Catalysis Society of South Africa (CATSA) Conference. Richards Bay, South Africa, 11-14 November 2007

The Intersociety Conference was established in 1979 to promote collegiality, encourage communication among the national radiology societies, and make recommendations on areas of concern identified by the 53 member societies invited to participate in the Summer Conference. The 2008 meeting was held July 18 to 20 at the Resort at ...

Catalysis Society of South Africa (CATSA) Conference. Richards Bay, South Africa, 11-14 November 2007

Buffelspoort TIME2008 Peer-reviewed Conference Proceedings, 22 – 26 September

51st Annual Conference of the SAIP. University of the Western Cape, 3-7 July 2006

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Elsie Andrews, a feminist activist from New Zealand, met Dr. Hildegarde Kneeland, a progressive economist from the United States, at the 1934 Pan-Pacific Women's Association conference in Honolulu. Andrews wrote diaries of her attendance at conferences, and in these writes openly of her attraction and romantic feelings for Kneeland, despite ...

The following announcements for a conference or a course might be of interest to the readers of this journal.

The International Critical Incident Stress Foundation (ICISF) established an office in Europe in 2004. The ICISF European Office (EO) held its first ICISF European Conference on Critical Incident Stress Management on September 27th 2008. The conference was formally evaluated and the results are reported in this article. 140 participants from ...

The flexibilities in the TRIPS Agreement (Trade Related Aspects of Intellectual Property) have been very useful in lowering the prices of antiretrovirals (ARVs) in Brazil. In this article, based on several presentations made at the conference, Marcela Fogaça Vieira et al describe recent developments in Brazil, including the granting of ...

There were more sessions than ever on human rights and policy at this conference--86 abstracts, 46 poster discussions, 702 posters, and numerous crosscutting, bridging and satellite sessions. In this article, based on her summary of Track E (Policy and Politics) at the rapporteur session on the final day of the ...

Report on the theme of the conference Globalisation and Landscape Architecture, held at St. Petersburg State Forest Technical Academy, Russia, 3-6 June 2007.

More than 130 delegates from all over the world attended the 1(st) Central and Eastern European Proteomic Conference organized together with the 3(rd) Czech Proteomic Conference in the TOP Hotel, Prague in the Czech Republic from 29(th) to 31(st) October, 2007. The autumn nostalgia of the historical city of Prague ...

Healthcare Estates is now only two months away, and potential delegates to the IHEEM Conference who would like to take advantage of the early booking discount need to act promptly. Delegates booking before 7 September 2007 will receive a significant saving on places at the IHEEM Conference, which, with its ...

International Conference on Low Temperature Science. I. Conference on Physics of Snow and Ice, II. Conference on Cryobiology. (August, 14-19, 1966, Sapporo, Japan)

International Conference on Low Temperature Science. I. Conference on Physics of Snow and Ice, II. Conference on Cryobiology. (August, 14-19, 1966, Sapporo, Japan)

International Conference on Low Temperature Science. I. Conference on Physics of Snow and Ice, II. Conference on Cryobiology. (August, 14-19, 1966, Sapporo, Japan)

International Conference on Low Temperature Science. I. Conference on Physics of Snow and Ice, II. Conference on Cryobiology. (August, 14-19, 1966, Sapporo, Japan)

International Conference on Low Temperature Science. I. Conference on Physics of Snow and Ice, II. Conference on Cryobiology. (August, 14-19, 1966, Sapporo, Japan)

International Conference on Low Temperature Science. I. Conference on Physics of Snow and Ice, II. Conference on Cryobiology. (August, 14-19, 1966, Sapporo, Japan)

International Conference on Low Temperature Science. I. Conference on Physics of Snow and Ice, II. Conference on Cryobiology. (August, 14-19, 1966, Sapporo, Japan)

PulPaper 2007 Conference: Innovative and Sustainable use of Forest Resources. Helsinki, Finland, 5 - 7 June 2007

PulPaper 2007 Conference Innovative and Sustainable Use of Forest Resources. Helsinki, Finland, 5 - 7 June 2007

PulPaper 2007 Conference Innovative and Sustainable Use of Forest Resources. Helsinki, Finland, 5 - 7 June 2007