As bed bugs continue to be found in homes and public buildings across the country, some of the leading bed bug experts will meet at Entomology 2010, the Annual Meeting of the Entomological Society of America (ESA) and the largest insect science meeting in the world…
Original post: Annual Meeting To Focus On Bed Bugs
The parenteral drug industry has grown in recent years with the development of new treatments and formulations to treat a wide range of acute and chronic conditions…
Original post: Sophistication Of Packaging And Parenteral Drug Administration Top The Agenda At Pre-Filled Syringes Conference, 19-20 January, 2011
World-class investigators affiliated with US Oncology Research participated in studies that will be presented, discussed and displayed Dec. 8-12 at the 33rd Annual San Antonio Breast Cancer Symposium (SABCS), an international scientific symposium for interaction and exchange among basic scientists and clinicians in breast cancer. Joyce O’Shaughnessy, M.D…
Original post: US Oncology Research Affiliated Physician To Present Innovative Oral Clinical Study At 2010 San Antonio Breast Cancer Symposium
The American Association for Cancer Research commends the U.S. Office of the Surgeon General for its continued focus on tobacco, one of most pressing public health issues of our time. The Surgeon General today released a new report, How Tobacco Smoke Causes Disease, that details the scientific evidence on how smoking causes cancer and numerous other diseases…
Original post: New Surgeon General Report On Smoking And Disease Caps Successful Year Of Federal Anti-Tobacco Action, AACR Says
Winter graduation deadlines have spurred a flurry of doctoral thesis defenses in science, technology, engineering and math (STEM). However, for many women and students from underrepresented minorities, the academic pathway from thesis defense to postdoctoral fellowship to faculty appointment in STEM is one of attrition, regardless of scientific aptitude…
Original post: STEM Workshop Set To Advance Women, Minorities
Synopsis An increasing demand for electronic instruments that can mimic biological olfaction processes led to the development of electronic nose and tongue systems, that is, intelligent chemical sensor arrays for odor classification and/or gas discrimination. Such systems include the materials to build the sensing elements, the device architecture, and intelligent signal processing methods…
Original post: International Symposium On Olfaction And Electronic Nose (ISOEN 2011)
The 19th International Conference (Jan. 19-22, 2011) of the CPM Resource Center (CPMRC), an Elsevier company and leader in assisting healthcare organizations improve practice at the point of care, will focus on transformational leadership and feature advice from many business leaders, including Dee Hock, founder and CEO emeritus, Visa, Inc….
Original post: Transformation At Top Of Agenda For CPMRC’s Annual Conference In Jan. 2011
This conference will focus on both recent technological advances, as well as novel and established applications of optics in medicine and research. The primary goal of this conference is to bring together scientists, engineers and clinicians from academia and industry who are interested in the application of optics to biotechnology, medicine, and surgery…
Original post: Advances In Optics For Biotechnology, Medicine And Surgery XII
Described by the New York Times as “an odyssey through the brain, illuminated by a rainbow,” Carl Schoonover’s new book, Portraits of the Mind: Visualizing the Brain from Antiquity to the 21st Century, is a stunning visual history of the brain…
Original post: A Visual History Of The Brain To Be Presented By ‘Portraits Of The Mind’ Author At Public Event In New York
Compliance with practice guideline-recommended treatment for cirrhosis is associated with a reduction in first esophageal variceal hemorrhage (EVH; bleeding), according to a new study in Clinical Gastroenterology and Hepatology, the official journal of the American Gastroenterological Association (AGA) Institute. Cirrhosis is a condition in which the liver is permanently scarred or injured…
Original post: Bleeding In Cirrhosis Patients May Be Reduced By Adherence To Practice Guidelines