The successful International Symposium series on Drug Analysis started in Brussels in 1983. So far it has been followed by a further eight editions. Presently, this meeting series is organized on a once every 4-years basis. The 9th edition was held in Antwerp (Belgium) from 21 to 24 September 2010.

In 1862 His Honor, Justice Johnston, issued his instructions to the jury of the New Zealand Supreme Court for two simultaneous rape trials – the alleged rape of a European woman by two Māori men, and an alleged “assault with intent to commit a rape” of a Māori woman by ...

The 2010 7th International Melanoma Congress sponsored by the Society for Melanoma Research and held in Sydney, Australia, was held together with the International Melanoma and Skin Cancer Centers group and the International Melanoma Pathology Study Group. As a consequence, there were over 900 registrants that included a wide range ...

An international collaborative study was organised by the European Directorate for the Quality of Medicines & HealthCare (EDQM) to establish the WHO second International Standard (IS) for gramicidin as the stocks of the 1st IS, established in 1964, were close to depletion. The candidate material did not show any sign ...

Due to the depletion in stocks of the World Health Organization (WHO) 2nd International Standard (IS) for nystatin, an international collaborative study was organised by the European Directorate for the Quality of Medicines & HealthCare (EDQM) to establish a replacement batch. Seventeen laboratories participated in the collaborative study, performing the ...

The 9th International Congress of the European Society EurSafe (European Society of Agricultural and Food Ethics) was held on September 15-18, 2010, in Bilbao, Spain, gathering 150 experts from more than 20 countries, with the purpose of reflecting on ethical-social and legal issues posed by bio-scientific advances and the challenges ...

Date written: November 2008 Final submission: March 2009.

Postmortem sperm retrieval has been used worldwide. Following retrieval, sperm can then be used (usually by the surviving partner) to produce a child related to the now-deceased male. This paper describes a request for postmortem sperm retrieval made by the family of a man who had suffered trauma leading to ...

Q-92, Abstracts of the 98th General Meeting of the American Society for Microbiology, 1998, American Society for Microbiology, Washington, DC, p. 436. Fredrickson, H., Gunnison, D., Perkins, E., and Ringelberg, D. (1999). "Screening tests for assessing the bioreclamation of dredged material," DOER Technical Notes Collection (TN DOER-C4), U.S. Army Engineer ...

No Abstract Copyright 1998 The Association for the Study of Animal Behaviour.

Endovascular intervention has become an increasingly more popular method of diagnosing and treating vascular disease. Its expanding scope includes applications ranging from visualization of the peripheral vascular system to coronary artery interventions. This trend is primarily a result of the limitations of angiography, the current imaging standard, when compared to ...

Approximately 25 new cases of American Burkitt's lymphoma (ABL) are diagnosed and reported yearly. Black patients presenting with ABL occur in less than 5 percent of the reported cases. A 47-year-old black man with ABL and ileocecal masses typical of the disease is presented. Symptoms, physical findings, and radiologic features ...

During an epidemiological study of salmonellosis in free-range village poultry, "Salmonella hirschfeldii" (invalid) was isolated from four birds in a village on the outskirts of the city of Ibadan, Nigeria. This is the first report of an isolation of "S. hirschfeldii" in poultry in Nigeria. The same organism was found ...

The prevalence of Gardnerella vaginalis in the urethra of 430 men attending a clinic for sexually transmitted disease was 11·4%; it was significantly higher in heterosexuals (14·5%) than in homosexuals (4·5%). There was no evidence of rectal or subpreputial carriage of G vaginalis, and urethral carriage was not associated with ...

Influenza equine (Heq2Neq2) strains isolated during the course of epizootics observed in Guanabara (Rio de Janeiro) and São Paulo, Brazil, in July-October 1969 were shown to differ antigenically from earlier strains of the same subtype (A/equine/Miami/1/63 (Heq2Neq2)). The difference could be clearly demonstrated in haemagglutination inhibition tests performed with postinfection ...

World Symposium on Man-made Forests Canberra, 1967

The World Health Organization convened in Geneva from 5 to 10 December 1966 a Scientific Group on Standardization of Procedures for the Study of Glucose-6-Phosphate Dehydrogenase(1) (EC 1.1.1.49; D-glucose-6-phosphate: NAPD oxidoreductase; G6PD). Variants of this enzyme have attracted international attention both as causes of various haemolytic disorders and as useful ...

The microhematocrit (HCT) values of 59 subjects increased significantly in the sitting position and after moderate exercise, in comparison with the values obtained during recumbency. The consumption of an 800-calorie meal decreased the HCT and this effect lasted for six hours. In order to obtain comparable results blood for HCT ...

Identification of the larval stages of African Simulium-vectors of onchocerciasis-is becoming increasingly important. In this paper attention is drawn to the principal morphological structures that are of value for identification and illustrations are given to indicate the various characters mentioned. The author provides an identification key to the larvae of ...