We report presentations and discussions at a meeting held in May 2010 in the small village of Minerve, in the south of France. The meeting was devoted mostly but not exclusively to patterning in the nervous system, with an emphasis on two model organisms, Drosophila Melanogaster and Danio rerio. Among ...

This report summarizes the proceedings of the second workshop of the 'Minimum Information for Biological and Biomedical Investigations' (MIBBI) consortium held on Dec 1-2, 2010 in Rüdesheim, Germany through the sponsorship of the Beilstein-Institute. MIBBI is an umbrella organization uniting communities developing Minimum Information (MI) checklists to standardize the description ...

Clinical guidelines and consensus statements serve to summarize and organize current knowledge on diverse subjects, and provide practical guidelines for proper clinical management. Recommendations should be based on research and evidence derived from appropriate sources. In 2008, more than 20 consensus statements were published in the pediatric literature alone. This ...

PURPOSE OF REVIEW: The purpose of this review was to update and complement part 1 of this study. Clinical, ethical and legal approaches to forced treatment in patients with anorexia nervosa were considered in the light of recent literature. RECENT FINDINGS: The first comparison of compulsorily detained adolescents and those ...

The following position statement is issued by the American Society for Metabolic and Bariatric Surgery in response to numerous inquiries made to the Society by patients, physicians, society members, hospitals, health insurance payors, the media, and others regarding emerging endosurgical interventions for treatment of obesity. In this statement, the ASMBS ...

The following position statement is issued by the American Society for Metabolic and Bariatric Surgery in response to numerous inquiries made to the Society by patients, physicians, society members, hospitals, health insurance payors, the media, and others, regarding the complication of gastrointestinal leak after gastrointestinal bariatric procedures. In this statement, ...

Due to an oversight on our part, the following article appeared, in error, in Critical Reviews in Microbiology 2008, 34: 163-173 Pneumococcal Surface Adhesin A (PsaA): A Review Gowrisankar Rajam, Julie M. Anderton, George M. Carlone, Jacquelyn S. Sampson, and Edwin W. Ades The version of scientific record of this ...

The conjunction of "hard genetics" research centers, with well established biomedical and bioethics research groups, and the exceptional possibility to hold the 6th annual meeting of the African Society of Human Genetics (AfSHG, 13th-15th March 2009) was an excellent opportunity to get together in synergy the entire Cameroonian "DNA/RNA scientists" ...

Dear Colleagues and Friends, It was a honour and a pleasure to welcome you to the Porphyrins and Porphyrias 2007 meeting in Rotterdam. We are grateful that you have been joining us in this dynamic city for what worked out to be an exciting program mixing basic science and clinical ...

The Asian Pacific Association for the Study of the Liver (APASL) set up a working party on acute-on-chronic liver failure (ACLF) in 2004, with a mandate to develop consensus guidelines on various aspects of ACLF relevant to disease patterns and clinical practice in the Asia-Pacific region. Experts predominantly from the ...

The Asian Pacific Association for the Study of the Liver (APASL) set up a Working Party on Portal Hypertension in 2002, with a mandate to develop consensus guidelines on various clinical aspects of portal hypertension relevant to disease patterns and clinical practice in the Asia-Pacific region. Variceal bleeding is a ...

The recent EORTC-NCI-ASCO Annual Meeting on 'Molecular Markers in Cancer' was held on 15-17 November 2007 in Brussels, Belgium. It was the largest meeting to date and marked the first year in which the American Association of Clinical Oncology (ASCO) joined in the efforts of the European Organisation for Research ...

Traditionally, undergraduate science curricula include little or no "ethics," either as theory or practice. However, zoologists are currently enjoying considerable media exposure: some of it positive (as in conservation practice), but more often negative (pertaining to issues such as the use of animals for testing of drugs, and genetic engineering). ...

The explosive growth of computer and communications technology raises new legal and ethical challenges that reflect tensions between individual rights and societal needs. For instance, should cracking into a computer system be viewed as a petty prank, as trespassing, as theft, or as espionage? Should placing copyrighted material onto a ...

Often ethical concerns are limited to issues like informed consent, confidentiality patients rights etc. However ethical concern includes all areas of doctor-patient relationship? This paper will highlight ethical issues m everyday clinical practice. Clear-cut guidelines are not available in these areas but the purpose is to sensitise the profession of ...

In this issue of the Journal of Helminthology I have much pleasure in including a selection of papers drawn from two workshops, one on 'Nematode Population Genetics' and another on the 'Ecology of Fish Parasites' held in April 1998 at Exeter during the Spring Meeting of the British Society for ...

Bridging cognition, brain and genes: evidence from genetically-based syndromes, Fifth Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Neuroscience Society, 5-7 April 1998, San Francisco, CA, USA.

We are pleased that the International Journal of Infectious Diseases (IJID) has been indexed in MEDLINE and Index Medicus. It is a tribute to those of you who have submitted excellent papers, case reports, and reviews and to those who have contributed thoughtful editorials. We expect that heightened exposure both ...

A key feature differentiating cooperative animal societies Is the apportionment of reproduction among individuals. Only recently have studies started to focus on intraspecific variability in the distribution of reproduction within animal societies, and the available data suggest that this variability might be greater than previously suspected. How can one account ...

SUMMARY: This article revaluates the current dromedary breed classifications based on Leese's (1927) division into hills, riverine and plains camel according to camel breeding zones, and the even earlier distinction by Cross (1917) and Leonard (1894) between baggage and riding camels. It is suggested that these classifications are inappropriate to ...

The work of the family physician is occasionally enlivened by an unusual patient problem. The particular episode described and discussed in this case report called into question the moral and ethical standards of both medicine and society. Issues of responsibility for unacceptable behaviour by an individual are examined within an ...

A study of gradient-index eyepieces was conducted. The general performance of homogeneous eyepieces having two and three elements was examined. Axial gradients were introduced into the eyepieces in an attempt to increase the half-fields of view to 25 degrees and extend the eye reliefs to 12 mm. The homogeneous eyepieces ...

Two patients with generalized pustular psoriasis developed amyloidosis with a fatal outcome. It is suggested that generalized pustular psoriasis may predispose to the development of secondary amyloidosis either by prolonged stimulation of the reticuloendothelial system or through abnormal immunoglobulin synthesis.