ABSTRACT: The 16th International Symposium on cells of the hepatic Sinusoid (ISCHS) took place in Florence, Italy on September 22-24st, 2011. This meeting is a multidisciplinary meeting where new and important findings on the biology of liver cells are presented and discussed.

In recent years, several authors have argued that the desirability of novel technologies should be assessed early, when they are still emerging. Such an ethical assessment of emerging technologies is by definition focused on an elusive object. Usually promises, expectations, and visions of the technology are taken as a starting ...

This is a meeting report of the presentations given at the 15th International Symposium on Cells of the Hepatic Sinusoid, held in 2010. The areas covered include the contributions of the various liver cell populations to liver disease, molecular and cellular targets involved in steatohepatitis, hepatic fibrosis and cancer and ...

American Journal of Gastroenterology is pleased to publish notices of educational events relating to topics covered in the Journal. Announcements in this column are limited to the dates, title, location, and main sponsor of the course; and the name, address, and telephone and fax numbers for further information.

The recommendations of the Austrian Society of Gastroenterology and Hepatology (ÖGGH) for antibiotic prophylaxis in gastrointestinal endoscopy of the year 2002 have been updated in accord with the recently published guidelines of the American Society of Gastrointestinal Endoscopy (ASGE) and the American Heart Association (AHA). Antibiotic prophylaxis for any endoscopic ...

American Journal of Gastroenterology is pleased to publish notices of educational events relating to topics covered in the Journal. Announcements in this column are limited to the dates, title, location, and main sponsor of the course; and the name, address, and telephone and fax numbers for further information.

American Journal of Gastroenterology is pleased to publish notices of educational events relating to topics covered in the Journal. Announcements in this column are limited to the dates, title, location, and main sponsor of the course; and the name, address, and telephone and fax numbers for further information.

American Journal of Gastroenterology is pleased to publish notices of educational events relating to topics covered in the Journal. Announcements in this column are limited to the dates, title, location, and main sponsor of the course; and the name, address, and telephone and fax numbers for further information.

American Journal of Gastroenterology is pleased to publish notices of educational events relating to topics covered in the Journal. Announcements in this column are limited to the dates, title, location, and main sponsor of the course; and the name, address, and telephone and fax numbers for further information.

American Journal of Gastroenterology is pleased to publish notices of educational events relating to topics covered in the Journal. Announcements in this column are limited to the dates, title, location, and main sponsor of the course; and the name, address, and telephone and fax numbers for further information.

American Journal of Gastroenterology is pleased to publish notices of educational events relating to topics covered in the Journal. Announcements in this column are limited to the dates, title, location, and main sponsor of the course; and the name, address, and telephone and fax numbers for further information.

Innovative therapeutic approaches for wound healing, psoriasis, atopic dermatitis, skin inflammation and genetic skin disorders were presented this year at the Society for Investigative Dermatology's annual meeting, the largest international meeting on investigative dermatology. The society has 1,700 members worldwide and publishes the Journal of Investigative Dermatology, the premier journal ...

The objective of the study was to determine urogynecology publication rates in obstetrics and gynecology literature. Original scientific articles from American Journal of Obstetrics and Gynecology (AJOG) and Obstetrics and Gynecology (Obstet Gynecol) from 1996-2007 were reviewed. A total of 10,192 articles were evaluated. Two trends were noted in the ...

American Journal of Gastroenterology is pleased to publish notices of educational events relating to topics covered in the Journal. Announcements in this column are limited to the dates, title, location, and main sponsor of the course; and the name, address, and telephone and fax numbers for further information.Am J Gastroenterol ...

Scientific writing is essential for academic progress and technical innovation. Rules and ethics for writing are well-defined, and detailed guidelines for authors are available. Nevertheless, journals have a specific flavor which is not only related to the focus of content. Thus, for authors preparing a manuscript, the choice of journal ...

Three controversial ethical issues, among others, stir the debate in health care institutions, in medical associations, and in the whole society: the care of patients in persistent vegetative state, the regulation of artificial procreation, some individual requests for reshaping an healthy body. Dealing with these dilemmas, typical of advanced medical ...

Professional sociology in the U.S. began as a field area within economics, but gradually emerged as a separate discipline. Using new data on joint meetings and the separation of departments, I track interdisciplinary relations through three phases: sponsorship (1890-1905), collaboration (1905-1940), and disengagement (post-1940). In the early years, sociology was ...

ABSTRACT: On behalf of the Editorial Board, welcome to the new "Italian Journal of Pediatrics," the official journal of the ISP/SIP (Italian Society of Pediatrics/Società Italiana di Pediatria), now publishing on BioMed Central's open access publishing platform. The move to BioMed Central will benefit authors by having their manuscripts published ...

The Editors of the American Journal of Gastroenterology wish to retract the paper "THE POSTPRANDIAL PHASE AS A LINK BETWEEN SYSTEMIC LIPID PEROXIDATION AND LIVER INJURY IN NASHrdquo; from Giovanni Musso, Roberto Gambino, et al. from the University of Turin, Italy which was published as an Online Early paper on ...

Year after year, physicists measure various quantities with increasing accuracy and see various objects in increasing detail. These advances are vital, because science's understanding of the physical world is necessarily limited by the accuracy with which science can measure that world. The Instrument and Measurement Science Topical Group of the ...

The use of gauze swabs in drains or sewers to clarify the path followed by a salmonella from source to human host has been reviewed in the light of experience gained in Cardiff over 15 years. This period has seen a marked change in attitudes to salmonella epidemiology in that ...

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Index for the firts 9 vols. is included in the index of v. 1-5 of Forest products journal issued in v. 5 of the journal