The Washington Pharmaceutical Meetings

Involvement of pharmaceutical companies at scientific meetings

South Africa not infrequently hosts high-level cardiology meetings outside the auspices of South African professional medical societies and associations. Well-known cardiologists, particularly from the USA and Europe are invited to make presentations, which bring the best and most-recent advances in the field to this country. This is of course of great value to the selected group of delegates w...

Pattern of Duplicate Presentations at National Hematology-Oncology Meetings: Influence of the Pharmaceutical Industry.

PURPOSE The major large US hematology-oncology meetings sponsored by the American Society of Hematology (ASH) and American Society of Clinical Oncology (ASCO) have specific guidelines in place discouraging submission of scientific information presented previously at other meetings. Nonetheless, duplicate submissions are frequent. The incidence and motivations for duplicate hematologic presentat...

Overview of the Meetings

In this report we will discuss implications for researchers of variability in estrogenic activity in animal feed and provide examples of a number of end points that are sensitive to estrogenic components in rodent diets. Importantly, we will report how research is impacted by variability in estrogenic components in soy-based and casein-based diets. We also describe control procedures to address...

The distributed meetings system

Meetings are an integral part of everyday life for most work-groups. However, due to travel, time, or other constraints, people are often not able to attend all the meetings they need to. Teleconferencing and recording of meetings can address this problem. We describe a system that provides these features, as well as a user study evaluation of the system. The system uses a variety of capture de...

The Wednesday Laboratory Meetings