British Digestive Foundation

British Society for Digestive Endoscopy

The spring meeting of the British Society for Digestive Endoscopy was held at Harrogate on 13-15 February 1975. It was a new venture and included two days devoted to teaching endoscopy. Over 100 attended on each day. The first day dealt with the basic technique of upper gastrointestinal endoscopy, and the second with ERCP and colonoscopy. Generous support from the pharmaceutical industry and in...

A response to the British Heart Foundation

ed from the Victims of Charity (VoC) report (http://www.animalaid.org.uk/images/pdf/booklets/victims.pdf, page references given). A hard copy is available on request from the Animal Aid office. 1. The BHF’s letter argues that the ‘strict peer review system’ of funding for animal experiments is evoked as a measure of the rigour with which the BHF vets its grant applications. It is also stated th...

A new initiative: the Children's Digestive Health and Nutrition Foundation.

Canadian Association of Gastroenterology and the Canadian Digestive Health Foundation: Guidelines on colon cancer screening.

Lung research funding in the UK: the British Lung Foundation perspective.

The British Lung Foundation was launched in 1985 by a group of leading respiratory specialists to fund medical research into the prevention, treatment, alleviation, and cure of all lung diseases and to disseminate the useful results of this research. It remains the only charity supporting research throughout the UK into all aspects of lung disease and relies entirely on voluntary donations for ...