Report for a 2012 Special Lecture Meeting in Tokyo-Minami Kanto Branch

TEXAS BRANCH FALL MEETING October 18-20, 2012

BCVS scientific conference 2012 meeting report.

S omething new, something old would be the best way to characterize the 2012 Basic Cardiovascular Sciences (BCVS) meeting. The conference entitled " Frontiers in Cardiovascular Science and Novel Therapy " highlighted the top scientific and translational discoveries in cardiovascular research in 15 major scientific sessions. The field's leading pioneers presented alongside junior investigators, ...

Meeting Report: Fungal ITS Workshop (October 2012)

This report summarizes a meeting held in Boulder, CO USA (19-20 October 2012) on fungal community analyses using ultra-high-throughput sequencing of the internal transcribed spacer (ITS) region of the nuclear ribosomal RNA (rRNA) genes. The meeting was organized as a two-day workshop, with the primary goal of supporting collaboration among researchers for improving fungal ITS sequence resources...

Results of the Tokyo Consensus Meeting Tokyo Guidelines

A systematic review of references conducted in the process of developing the Guidelines for the Management of Acute Cholangitis and Cholecystitis did not find many high-quality research reports. There were no criteria for diagnosis, severity assessment, or patient transfer, and no established principles of clinical practice guidelines for acute cholangitis and cholecystitis. In order to develop...

Arthritis mutilans: a report from the GRAPPA 2012 annual meeting.

Arthritis mutilans is often described as the most severe form of psoriatic arthritis. However, a widely agreed on definition of the disease has not been developed. At the 2012 annual meeting of the Group for Research and Assessment of Psoriasis and Psoriatic Arthritis (GRAPPA), members hoped to agree on a definition of arthritis mutilans and thus facilitate clinical and molecular epidemiologica...