We recently presented a new analgesic method for immediate relief of clinical pain. This technique involves acute pressure stimulation on the sciatic nerves [1,2]. The technique has attracted increased attention following the reporting of two studies during the American Academy of Pain Medicine’s 24th annual meeting [3,4]. The present letter responds to important questions posed by scientists, ...

Here is the latest summary of research abstracts. A reminder that the 2005 Symposium on the Cannabinoids to be held June 24th 27th, 2005 at the Hilton Clearwater Beach Resort in Clearwater, Florida USA; registration details are available at http://CannabinoidSociety.org/. In addition a workshop entitled “Cannabinoids: developing clinically useful analgesics” has been announced at the Internatio...

First used as an analgesic and antipyretic, investigations into aspirin's anti-inflammatory effects led to its establishment in 1974 as a drug that altered the activity of platelets to influence the course and incidence of myocardial infarction and cerebrovascular disease. It became the standard in treatment and prevention of vascular disorders. The 25th International Scientific Meeting on aspi...

The Korean government has strived to secure a disposal site for the safe management of radioactive waste since the early 1980s. The 249 th meeting of the Atomic Energy Commission (AEC) held in September 1998 established the “National Radioactive Waste Management Policy”, which aims at completing the construction of a Low and Intermediate Level Radioactive Waste (LILW) disposal facility by 2008,...

Dear Participants of the 24th meeting of the European Society of Veterinary Pathology. The ESVP meets in Edinburgh for the second time, having had a previous fall meeting in 1995 in this lively city full of culture and activities. The ESVP and the local organisers have warm memories of that previous meeting. We are all looking forward to refreshing these memories and to gaining new contacts and...

one of the most important issues which has long been considered as a shortfall in the civil procedure code (cpc) is the jurisdiction of the arbitral tribunal to issue interim orders. currently, neither the court nor the arbitral tribunal can freely grant the interim measure so that the tribunals and the court hardly accept the plea for granting the interim measure. the reason lies in the shortf...