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Pharmaceutical Sonety’s Jumor Trophy.-Jerry Nayler (Department ofMedical Illustration, Westminster Hospital and Medical School, London).

Gordon Trophy.-Keith Duguid (Department of Medical Illustration, West-minster Hospital and Medical School, London).

Medical Group Techmcal Award.-Ralph Marshall (Department of MedicalIllustration, University Hospital of Wales, Cardiff).Medical Group Merit Awards.-Wendy Sheppard (Department of

Audiovisual Communication, St. Mary’s Hospital Medical School, London);Robert Wade (Department of Photography, Queen Mary’s Hospital, Carshal-ton) ; Richard Morton (Department of Medical Illustration, University ofAberdeen); Bernadette Sheehan (Department of Audiovisual Communication,Institute of Ophthalmology).

Television Award

The 1980 Medical Journalists Association/Alka-Seltzer TelevisionAward of f2000, given to the news or feature programme which bestexplains medical matters to the general public, was awarded toMartin Freeth, who wrote and produced The Spike, a B.B.C.2Horizon programme on epilepsy.

Identity CapsuleA new watertight fire-resistant capsule containing a scroll on

which to record vital information in case of accident is nowavailable. Assembled and packed by disabled people in the NicholsCentre, Exeter, ’Lifeline’, as it is called, is provided as an

aluminium tube (price 1.75), which may be attached to a key ring,or as a smaller chrome-finish version (price f1.99), which may beworn as a pendant. Further information may be obtained from PaulMorgan, Sitzmobil Limited, 107a London Road, Leicester LE2OPF.

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Mr Tom Evans, lecturer in public sector management at the LondonBusiness School, is to become director of the King’s Fund College. Hesucceeds Mr P. J. Torrie.

The Christian Medical Fellowship will hold a meeting for medical prac-titioners, wives, and husbands on The Deformed Child-Who Cares? atthe Royal Commonwealth Society Hall, Craven Street, London WC2 onApril 30 at 7.30 P.M.

St Bartholomew’s Hospital Medical College will hold a symposium onPlatelets, Prostaglandins and Diabetic Microvascular Disease at theRobin Brook Centre on June 12. Further details may be obtained from H. J.Bodansky, Dunn Laboratories, KGV Building, St Bartholomew’s Hospital,,West Smithfield, London EC1A 7BE.

The annual general meeting of the National Association of HealthAuthorities will take place in Scarborough on June 17-19. Furtherinformation may be obtained from NAHA, Park House, 40 Edgbaston ParkRoad, Birmingham B 15 2RT.

A one-day conference on Are We Meeting the Needs of Stroke Patients?will take place at Bloomsbury Centre Hotel, Coram Street, London WC1 onJune 24. Details may be obtained from the Chest, Heart and StrokeAssociation, Tavistock House North, Tavistock Square, London WC1H 9JE.

The 8th annual congress of the Assocation of Professions for the MentallyHandicapped on Mental Handicap: Progress, Problems and Prioritieswill take place at Christ College, Canterbury, on July 29-Aug 1. Further

information may be obtained from APMH, 126 Albert Street, London NW 17NF.

The Royal Postgraduate Medical School and the medical department ofGlaxo Group Research will hold the 2nd symposium in the series on basicgastroenterology on Autonomic Nerves of the Gut in London on Sept. 22.Details may be had from Dr M. Daly, Glaxo Group Research Limited, Ware,Hertfordshire SG12 ODJ.

Lord Alport is seeking information for a memoir of his late father, Prof.A. C. Alport, who taught at St Mary’s Hospital, Paddington, London, and inCairo in the years 1925-45. Any recollections or anecdotes would be gratefullyreceived by Lord Alport at the House of Lords, London SW 1.

Correction

Carrageenan and the Immune Response.-The signatures to this letter

(March 21, p. 671) should have read: A. W. Thomson, L. Brent, V. Sljivic, andE. F. Fowler.

International Diary1981

22nd annual conference of the 1981 Indian Society of Gastroenterology:Trivandrum, India, Sept. 20-22 (Dr R. N. RaJan, ISG Conference, Ward 6,Medical College Hospital, Trivandrum 695 011, Kerala).

67th annual clinical congress of the American College of Surgeons: SanFrancisco, California. Oct. 11-16 (Dr E. W. Gerrish, American College ofSurgeons, 55 East Erie Street, Chicago, Illinois 60611, U.S.A.).

2nd international symposium on Spectroscopic Methods for Bio-medical Research: Columbus, Ohio, Oct. 19-21 (Karen Waite, Batelle’sColumbus Laboratories, 505 King Avenue, Columbus, Ohio 43201).

5th annual symposium on Computer Applications in Medical Care:Washington, D.C. Nov. 1-4 (Jan Eldridge, Office of Continuing MedicalEducation, George Washington University Medical Center, 2300 K StreetN.W. Washington, D.C. 20037, U.S.A.).

6th annual symposium on Blood Transfusion: Groningen, Netherlands,Nov. 19-20 (Secretariat, Red Cross Bloodbank Groningen-Drenthe, Ooster-singel 59, Groningen).

1982

25th world conference of the International Union against Tubercu.losis: Buenos Aires, Argentina, April 21-24 (Secretariat IUAT, 3 me GeorgeVille, 75116 Paris, France). i

5th international conference on Prostaglandins: Florence, Italy, May18-21 (Secretariat, Fondazione Giovanni Lorenzini, Via Monte Napoleone23, 20121 Milan).

3rd meeting of the World Federation for Ultrasound in Medicine andBiology: Brighton, England, July 26-30 (Conference Consultants (London]Limited, 4 L Portman Mansions, Chiltern Street, London WIM 1LF).

16th international congress of Internal Medicine: Prague,Czechoslovakia, Aug. 23-27 (Dr Jan Stepan, 128 50 Praha 2, Na 14, 4,Czechoslovakia).

7th world congress of Collegium Internationale ChirurgiaeDigestivae: Tokyo, Japan, Sept. 6-9 (Secretariat, 2nc!Department ofSurgery, Jikei University School of Medicine, 3-25-8, Nishishmbashl,Minato-ku, Tokyo 105).

International symposium on Abortion: Spontaneous and Induced:Maui, Hawaii, Oct. 11-15 (E.S.E. Hafez, Department of

Gynecology/Obstetrics, Wayne State University School of Medicine, 550 ECanfield, Detroit, Michigan 48201, U.S.A.).

19th congress of International Society of Haematology (jointly with17th congress of International Society of Blood Transfusion): Budapest,Hungary, Aug. 1-7 (ISH/ISBT Congress, MOTESZ Congress Bureau,Budapest POB 32, H-1361).

18th congress of Medical Women’s International Association: Marula.

Philippines, Nov. 21-28 (Medical Women’s Federation, Tavistock HouseSouth, Tavistock Square London WC1).

Diary of the Week

APRIL 12 TO 18 H

Monday, 13thINSTITUTE OF OBSTETRICS AND GYNAECOLOGY, Queen Charlotte’s Mater-

nity Hospital, Goldhawk Road, London W6 OXG12.30 P.M. Prof. J. F. Lucy (U.S.A.) : Perinatal Intracramal Haemorrhage-Can It Be

Prevented or Treated?

Tuesday, 14thWEST OF SCOTLAND COMMITTEE FOR POSTGRADUATE MED1CAL

EDUCATION9.30 A.M. (Royal College of Physicians and Surgeons of Glasgow, 242 51

Vincent Street, Glasgow G2 5RJ) Symposium.-Clinical Decision-makingTheory and Practice in Reducing Unnecessary Tests.

Wednesday, 15thROYAL COLLEGE OF SURGEONS OF ENGLAND, Lincoln’s Inn Fields.

London WC2A 3PN5 P.M. Prof. J. Miles: Electrical Stimulation for the Relief of Pain (Huntenan iecrj’

CLINICAL RESEARCH CENTRE, Watford Road, Harrow, Middlesex HAt 3U I4.30 P.M. Dr R. A. Flavell: Expression of Haemoglobin Genes