The 2nd International Congress on Hematological Disorders: (New Challenges in Diagnosis and Treatment)

The European Paediatric Association and Union of National European Paediatric Societies and Associations, the umbrella organization of the 49 national pediatric member societies from across Europe, invites pediatricians and other professionals involved in child health to attend the Eighth EUROPAEDIATRICS Congress, jointly cohosted by the Romanian Paediatric Society (http:// www.europaediatrics2...

We introduce the feature issue on the Optics in the Life Sciences Congress held on April 2-5, 2017 in San Diego, CA. The Congress consisted of 5 topical symposia: (i) Bio-optics Design and Application; (ii) Novel Techniques in Microscopy; (iii) Optical Molecular Probes, Imaging and Drug Delivery; (iv) Optical Trapping Applications; and (v) Optics and the Brain. These separate symposia also held...

The first International Neurological Congress (Berne, Switzerland, 1931), attended by individuals from 42 countries, signified a global presence of world neurology; a coming of age. The aim of this study was to trace the history of that Congress, an important episode in the emergence of our discipline. The historical literature was reviewed and a detailed study conducted of the Henry Alsop Rile...

10.1056/nejmp1113618 nejm.org e1(1) ulation of only commercial activity, not inactivity, and thus gives Congress no power to force individuals to buy a product. They argue that if the Supreme Court were to hold otherwise, then Congress could force us all to buy anything, from General Motors cars to broccoli. This claim is a red herring, however, because Congress could force precisely the same p...

I am very pleased to have been invited by Tim Murray, the President of the South African Sugar Technologists’ Association, to be the keynote speaker for this year’s SASTA Congress. I am particularly pleased to have been invited this year because BSES is celebrating its centenary and, in September 2001, Australia will be hosting the ‘new look’ 24th Congress of the International Society of Sugar ...

The IRPA13 Congress took place from 14-18 May 2012 in Glasgow, Scotland, UK, and was attended by almost 1500 radiological protection professionals. The scientific programme of the Congress was designed to capture a snapshot of the profession's views of the current state of knowledge, and of the challenges seen for the coming years. This paper provides a summary of these results of the Congress ...

Between 1776 and 1920, the US Congress designed more than 200 distinct securities and stated the maximum amount of each that the Treasury could sell. Between 1917 and 1939, Congress gradually delegated all decisions about designing US debt instruments to the Treasury. In 1939, Congress began imposing a limit on the par value of total federal debt outstanding. By summing Congressional borrowing ...

The officers of the third International Congress of the History of Medicine are : President of honour, Sir Norman Moore, Bt., M.D. ; president, Dr. Charles Singer; treasurer, Mr. W. G. Spencer, O.B.E., M.S. ; general secretary, Dr. J. D. Rolleston ; vice-presidents, Sir D'Arcy Power, K.B.E., F.R.C.S., Dr. Tricot-Royer of Antwerp, president of the first International Congress, and Drs. Jeanselme...