News 
October 6, 2008
7th German Congress of Health Services Research online
The 7th German Congress of Health Services Research will take place from 16th - 18th of October 2008 in Cologne.
September 19, 2008
92nd Annual Meeting of the Southwest German Association of Otolaryngologists online
The 92nd Annual Meeting of the Southwest German Association of Otolaryngologists will be
held in Neckarsulm on September 26th to 27th, 2008 chaired by Prof. Dr. Burkard M. Lippert
(Klinik für HNO-Heilkunde, Kopf- und Halschirurgie der SLK-Kliniken Heilbronn).
September 16, 2008
Annual Meeting 2008 of the German Medical Library Association (Arbeitsgemeinschaft für Medizinisches Bibliothekswesen e.V. – AGMB) online
The annual meeting of the German Medical Library Association
(Arbeitsgemeinschaft für Medizinisches Bibliothekswesen e.V. – AGMB) will be
held in Magdeburg, Germany from September 23rd to 25th, 2008. Focal points
of this year's meeting are life-long learning, the new educational
structures resulting from the Bologna Process, new techniques for networked
working processes, and the effects of the new German copyright law. In
addition there will be a poster session, workshops, product reviews and a
commercial exhibition.
September 10, 2008
53rd Annual Meeting of the German Medical Informatics, Biometry and Epidemiology Society (GMDS 2008) online
The 53rd conference of the German Medical Informatics, Biometry and Epidemiology Society
will be held in Stuttgart on September 15th to 18th, 2008.
Keynotes and presentations will cover topics from
September 4, 2008
Satellite symposium on "Open Access in Medicine" and German Medical Science Editorial Meeting
The German Medical Science team will be involved in organizing the ZB MED satellite symposium "Open Access in der Medizin: Stand und Ausblick" ("Open access in medicine: status quo and outlook") taking place November 12, 2008, 9-11 a.m. in Düsseldorf, Germany within the framework of the Berlin 6 Open Access Conference (November 11-13, 2008, see http://www.berlin6.org/). For more information on the program of the satellite symposium, please see http://www.berlin6.org/?page_id=38 (in German). Following the satellite symposium, the annual German Medical Science editorial meeting will take place.
August 27, 2008
25th Scientific Annual Meeting of the German Society of Phoniatrics & Pedaudiology online
The main topic of the jubilee congress is "Newborn Hearing Screening - New Requirements for the Phoniatrics and Pediatric Audiology". Several studies from different German states highlight the diverse aspects of the universal newborn hearing screening comprising tracking, follow up, quality assurance and the constitution of networks. Different methodical approaches are presented in pilot projects.Further articles deal with causal research and differential diagnoses of the different subtypes of sensorineural hearing loss, developing concepts in hearing and speech habilitation and the treatment of auditory processing disorders. The aim of the studies is to guarantee a highly normal development of hearing and speech by early specific diagnostic and therapeutic activities.
A further common topic of the presented articles is the communication disorder in orofacial malformations and after defect care in the oral and maxillofacial area.
Studies concerning computer-assisted parameters of the voice, the voice in old age and special aspects in the treatment of vocalists and musicians emphasize the broad spectrum of the speciality phoniatrics and pediatric audiology.
The contributions of the congress are available online at GMS: http://www.egms.de/en/meetings/dgpp2008/
