The McGill Pharmacoepidemiology Programme invited academics from around the globe to Sarasota, Florida, in order to discuss recent research on betaagonist bronchodilators in the treatment of asthma. The purpose of the meeting was the development of a research agenda to deal with unanswered questions in the medium and long term. The meeting was sponsored by AB Astra, Boehringer lngelheim GmbH, F...

The 2010 American Urological Association’s annual meeting brought fewer studies of chronic prostatitis/chronic pelvic pain (CP/CPPS) than in the past. That’s because most NIH research funding for CP/CPPS is now going toward long-term studies aimed at uncovering the cause, and it will be some time before we hear about the results. Nevertheless, the 2010 meeting brought news of potential new trea...

JONA • Vol. 32, No. 6 • June 2002 The nation is facing a nursing shortage that is creating a crisis for quality healthcare and patient safety. Research has documented that problems with nurse staffing are associated with healthcare-associated infections and other adverse events that affect patient outcomes. These ominous facts, stated during the opening of an expert consultants meeting convened...

Stent thrombosis is an example of device-induced, plateletmediated arterial thrombosis. Rates of stent thrombosis can vary from 1% to 10% depending on the patient population, genetic predisposition, device type, pharmacological choices, and duration of antiplatelet pharmacotherapy. The Platelet Colloquium is an annual academic–industry–governmental thinktank meeting devoted to identifying resea...

This study investigates the 10-year course and impact of Alcoholics Anonymous (AA)-related helping (AAH), step-work, and meeting attendance on long-term outcomes. Data were derived from 226 treatment-seeking alcoholics recruited from an outpatient site in Project MATCH and followed for 10 years post treatment. Alcohol consumption, AA participation, and other-oriented behavior were assessed at b...

Since the 3rd WIN meeting in 1982 more than 500 participants join the meeting in Val D'Isere every year [1]. One of our authors has attended the meeting more than 10 times. He experienced many physical illnesses while travelling from South Korea to Val D'Isere in France, which is located in the Alps mountain near the border between France and Italy. In order to get there, it is necessary to tak...

The recent Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory meeting ‘Mechanisms of Eukaryotic Transcription’ was a potent reminder of the astounding depth and complexity of the biological world. Despite years of intensive study and the extraordinary advances that have been made, transcriptional regulation remains a vibrant area of research that retains its ability to inspire and to surprise. Indeed, for the 470 p...

The June 1995 Interface meeting in Pittsburgh was a resounding success. As a rule, members of the Statistical Computing Section participate heavily in the conference and its location is the regularly scheduled site of the first meeting of the year for the section’s executive officers. (The officers will have to travel a bit further than Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, to meet at the 1996 Interface, t...

This report aims to inform the discussion of the MIT and Cambridge DSpace teams and invited digital preservation experts, meeting on the 30 July, 2003. A key aim of the report will be to present possible options for the future development of the digital preservation aspects of DSpace. The report will also provide questions for discussion on important issues, recommended reading for meeting part...

There is now some evidence that depressed mood is associated with activation of the immune system. First, we evaluated, within a cross-sectional design, NKCA (in vitro) in 49 subjects meeting inclusion criteria either for a major depressive episode, for dysthymia, or for "double depression". We found that recent and long depressive episodes (dysthymia) are associated with a lower immunodepressi...