News 
September 23, 2005
Journal of the Arbeitsgemeinschaft für Medizinisches Bibliothekswesen now online
Since 23. 09. 2005 selected articles from the print version of "medizin - bibliothek - information" are published online on the gms internet platform. The journal publishes information, communication and papers of the "Arbeitsgemeinschaft für Medizinisches Bibliothekswesen" (AGMB). This is the biggest association of medical librarians in Germany with about 500 institutional members comprising medical university libraries, hospital libraries and pharmaceutical company libraries.The journal was launched in 2001 with a frequency of three issues per year. From 2006 onward it will be published electronic-only as "GMS Medizin - Bibliothek - Information". It covers subjects from the field of librarianship to information technology with a strong focus on topics relevant to medical libraries. As before and well-established each issue will feature a particular theme.
Dorothee Boeckh (AGMB's chairwoman) und Bruno Bauer (chief editor since 2002) welcome contributions and papers in German or English for publication in "GMS Medizin - Bibliothek - Information".
September 15, 2005
22. Scientific Annual Meeting of German Society of Phoniatrics & Pedaudiology online
The German Society of Phoniatrics & Pedaudiology publishes again all contributions of its 22. Scientific Annual Meeting online in German Medical Science. In this anniversary year (100 Years Phoniatrics in Germany) the conference with the main topic "Genetics of Communication" takes place in cooperation with the Union of the European Phonitricians (UEP) and the International Association of Physicians in Audiology (IAPA).
The contributions to the meeting are available on German Medical Science: http://www.egms.de/en/meetings/dgpp2005/
September 8, 2005
50th GMDS and 12th DAE annual conference now online
The 50th conference of the German Medical Informatics, Biometry and Epidemiology Society will take place from September 12th to 15th, 2005 in association with the 12th annual conference of the German Committee of Epidemiology (DAE, September 14th to 15th) at the University of Freiburg.
July 1, 2005
"E-learning: Status quo and chances in general practice" now online
A national symposium for innovations in medical teachingThe new approbation terms for medical practitioners have led to a considerable increase of teaching tasks - very often with the same human resources. E-learning is: "A desirable change, supported by information and communication technology, in the individual's capabilities" (Wallin 2004). How can E-learning support the education and the advanced training in general practice?
June 16, 2005
Convention of the German Society for Surgery online
"Patient Safety - Primum Nil Nocere" was the guiding theme of the 122. congress of the German Society for Surgery (Deutsche Gesellschaft für Chirurgie) from the 05. till the 08. of April 2005 in the International Congress Center Munich. Within many lectures, forums and video sessions possibilities of specialisation were discussed as one way to reach perfection within surgical technique. Additionally approaches of further education and quality assurance were presented. The abstracts of the meeting are now available here on German Medical Science.
June 14, 2005
Annual meeting "knee-joint and spine" available on GMS
The association of northern German orthopaedics (Norddeutsche Orthopädenvereinigung e.V. - NOV) organizes its 54th annual meeting from the 16th till the 18th of June 2005 in Hamburg. The meeting is entitled "Knee-joint and spine - state of the art" and concentrates on the comprehensive presentation of these two subjects including innovative technologies, long-term progressions of established procedures and new results of basic research. The abstracts of the meeting are available on German Medical Science here.
May 31, 2005
Symposium "Objective Measures in Cochlear Implants" online
The medical University of Hannover organizes the 4th international symposium "Objective Measures in Cochlear Implants" from the 1st till the 4th of June 2005 in the International Neuroscience Institute Hannover. The symposium will focus on recent advances of objective measures in cochlear implants. Both clinical applications and research issues will be covered. State-of-the-art lectures by leading experts in the field will provide a solid basis for discussion and an introduction to the sessions featuring contributed presentations. The pre- and post-conference workshops will be organised by the cochlear implant manufacturers who will provide an update on their latest product development in relation to objective measures.
May 4, 2005
Annual meeting for neurosurgery online
The 56th annual meeting of the German society of neurosurgery (Deutsche Gesellschaft für Neurochirugie - DGNC) as well as the 3rd annual meeting of the French society of neurosurgery (Société Française de Neurochirurgie - SFNC) takes place in the Palais des Congrès in Strasbourg from the 7th till the 11th of May 2005. During the first joint meeting of these two european societies additionally to collective sessions each society will organise its meeting as usual. The abstracts of the meeting are available on GMS from now on.
April 27, 2005
Common illness backache: new ways of looking at
Seminar of the "Arbeitskreis Sportmedizin der Akademie für ärztliche Fortbildung und Weiterbildung der Landesärztekammer Hessen". Bad Nauheim, June 05, 2004.Objective of the seminar was to present for the common illness backache from the sports orthopaedic, traumatologic, sports medical, from the internal, from the pain therapeutic, neurosurgical and from the physiotherapeutic point of view new ways of looking at, based on physiologic, pathophysiologic knowledge, with relevance for prevention and therapy of the common problem backache.
The report describes the low back pain most probably as a result of static disorders caused by length differences of the legs and as a result of a hardening of musculature with decreased blood flow and hypoxia and thereby an energy deficiency in the muscle tissue. Therapy approaches can be stretching of shortened musculature and the partial compensation of differences of leg length, matrix rhythm therapy, water-filtered infrared A, physical activity to improve local oxygen supply, and anti-acidification procedures, conservative, interventional and operative pain therapeutic and neurosurgical procedures and several forms of back school for primary, secondary and tertiary prevention including behavior orientated training programs.
