The HUPO World Congress at Long Beach, 2006

Hotline sessions of the 28th European Congress of Cardiology/World Congress of Cardiology 2006.

The 28th Congress of the European Society of Cardiology this year was organized together with the World Heart Federation and was presented as the World Congress of Cardiology. During the congress, held in Barcelona in September 2006, the results of 11 new studies were presented in two Hotline sessions. One of these, the PEP-CHF study has already been published in the European Heart Journal. Pre...

The World Congress

A great deal of credit for the success of the congress must be given to Program President Professor Alberto Montori of the University of Rome, "La Sapienza" and the committees who organized and coordinated this event. Every effort was made to secure outstanding surgeon-scientists to teach and present their experiences. In many instances, classical open surgical procedures were juxtaposed with l...

One health high on the agenda at world congress.

The Durban World Congress Ethics

208 words) PURPOSE To determine the approaches used in withdrawing mechanical ventilator support. MATERIALS and METHODS Speakers from the invited faculty of the World Federation of Societies of Intensive and Critical Care Medicine Congress in 2013 with an interest in ethics were asked to provide a detailed description of individual approaches to the process of withdrawal of mechanical ventilati...

History of the World Allergy Organization: 1989 to 2006, the XVIII World Allergy Congress, Journal Development, Reorganization, and New Programs

History of the World Allergy Organization: In 1951, the leaders in allergy from all over the world came together to form the International Association of Allergology and Clinical Immunology (IAACI). For the next 60 years, the allergy world converged at the IAACI triennial meetings, which became biennial in 2003. The international meetings, originally named the International Congress of Allergol...