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Dr Alan Richens, at present reader in clinical pharmacology at theInstitute of Neurology, has been appointed professor of phar-macology and materia medica.

Dialysis Patients and Sickness Benefit

The D.H.S.S. has stated that patients who undergo regulardialysis treatment for 2 or 3 days a week will qualify for sicknessbenefit. Normally a spell of sickness must last for at least 4 days.

The Electroencephalographic Society has elected Dr G. Pampiglione aspresident, Dr S. Butler as secretary, Dr E. J. W. Gumbert as treasurer, and DrM. Sedgwick as meeting secretary. ,

The annual conference of the Society for Psychomatic Research is entitledMind-made Disease : a Clinician’s Guide to Recent Research, and willtake place at the Royal College of Physicians, London, on Nov. 24-25. Furtherdetails available from Dr L. Morrish, Cardinal Clinic, Windsor (tel: Windsor69755).

The Association for the Study of Medical Education has arranged a meetingentitled Audit as Continuing Education, to be held on Dec. 9, at the RoyalCollege of Physicians, London. Registration forms available from MaureenGyle, ASME, 150b Perth Road, Dundee DD1 4EA.

The Institute of Religion and Medicine has established a fund forawarding occasional prizes to topically relevant essays. Details of the 1980competition are available from the Organising Secretary, Institute of ReligionandMedicine, St Margaret’s Vicarage, St Margaret’s Road, Oxford OX2 6RX.

Faculty News, the newspaper of north and west London faculty of theRoyal College of General Practitioners, welcomes contributions from generalpractitioners and specialists. Items should be addressed to Dr B. A. Qureshi, 32Legrace Avenue, Hounslow West, Middlesex TW4 7RS.

The 4th edition of the Drug Interaction Alert wallchart, denoting thenature, significance, and severity of known or suspected drug interactions in-volving 73 drugs or drug groups, is now available free from Boehringer In-gelheim Limited, Southern Industrial Estate, Bracknell, Berkshire RG 12 4YS.

International Diary

1981

3rd international symposium on Calciotropic Hormones Methods andClinical Applications: Gardone Riviera, Italy, May 8-9 (Ria 81, Fon-dazione Giovanni Lorenzini, Via Monte Napoleone 23, 20121 Milan).

6th meeting of European-African division of International Society ofHaematology: Athens, Greece, Aug. 30-Sept. 4 (Secretariat, P.O. Box 52,624-A Athens).

5th Asia Pacific Cancer Conference: Colombo, Sri Lanka, Sept. 1-4(Conference Secretariat, Sri Lanka Cancer Society, 37/25 Bullers Lane,Colombo 7).

10th annual meeting of European Working Group for Cystic Fibrosis:Berne, Switzerland, Sept. 22-23 (Ron Tucker, Executive Director, CysticFibrosis Research Trust, 5 Blyth Road, Bromley, Kent).

International symposium on Inflammatory Bowel Diseases: Jerusalem,Israel, Sept. 7-9 (Dr D. Rachmilewitz, Department of Gastroenterology,Hadassah University Hospital, P.O. Box 12000, Jerusalem).

Revised date-2nd world congress on Diabetes in the Tropics andDeveloping Countries: India, Nov. 14-17 (Dr V. S. A. Ajgaonkar, DiabeticAssociation of India, Mareckji Wadia Building, lst floor 127, MahatmaGandhi Road, Bombay 400023).

International conference on Muscle in Sports Medicine: Utrecht,Netherlands, March 23-26 (Special Events Department, Royal NetherlandsIndustries Fair, P.O. Box 8500, 3503 RM Utrecht).

2nd international congress on Ultrasonic Examination of the Breast:

London, June 22-23 (J. C. Bamber, Organising Secretary, 2nd InternationalCongress, Institute of Cancer Research, Clifton Avenue, Belmont, Sutton.Surrey SM2 5PX).

International symposium on Contemporary Issues in Hodgkin’sDisease: San Francisco, California, Sept. 9-12 (Lili Zubar, Box 277, Univer-sity of Minnesota Hospitals, 420 Delaware Street, S.E. Minneapolis, .Bhn.nesota 55455).

American Heart Association symposium: London, Sept. 14-17 (ProfJ. J. Bergan, Division of Vascular Surgery, Medical School, NorthwesternUniversity, Chicago, Illinois 60611).

3rd international conference on Heavy Metals in the Environment:Amsterdam, the Netherlands, Sept. 15-18 (Secretariat, Heavy Metals Con-ference, 26 Albany Street, Edinburgh EH 3QH, Scotland).

lst international symposium on Minimal Invasive Cancer: Graz.

Austria, July 1-4 (Dr E. Holzer, PO Box 105, A-1014, Vienna).

Diary of the Week

NOV. 16 To 22

Monday, 17thINSTITUTE OF DERMATOLOGY, St John’s Hospital for Diseases of the Skm,

Lisle Street, Leicester Square, London WC2H 7BJ4.45 P.M. Dr M. F. Spittle: Radiotherapy III.

INSTITUTE OF OBSTETRICS AND GYNAECOLOGY, Queen Charlotte’s Hospual,Goldhawk Road, London W6 OXG

12.30 P.M. The Statistical Service at Q.C.M.H.

Tuesday, 18thROYAL COLLEGE OF PATHOLOGISTS, 2 Carlton Terrace, London SWIY 5AF

5.30 P.M. Prof. Sir Richard Doll, FRS: Environmental Cancer. Origins of RiskROYAL SOCIETY OF MEDICINE, 1 Wimpole Street, London WIM 8AE6 P.M. Sir Douglas Black: Apples of Discord (Lloyd-Roberts lecture)

INSTITUTE OF DERMATOLOGY4.45 P.M. Dr R. S. Wells: Principles of Genetics.

LONDON MEDICAL GROUP6 P.M. (Charing Cross Hospital, Fulham Palace Road, London W6 8RF) Sympos-

ium.-Has Democracy a Place in the NHS?

Wednesday, 19thINSTITUTE OF NEUROLOGY, National Hospital, Queen Square, London X’CIN

3BG6 P.M. Prof. J R. Batchelor: Immune Responses and the HLA System7 P.M. Dr D. A. S. Compston: HLA System in Neurological Disease

INSTITUTE OF ORTHOPAEDICS, Royal National Orthopaedic Hospital, 234 GreatPortland Street, London Wl 1

6 P.M. Mr J. B. King: The Rheumatoid Ankle and Hindfoot.7 P.M. Mr A. Kates: The Rheumatoid Forefoot.

ROYAL FREE HOSPITAL, Pond Street, London NW3 2QG5 P.M. Dr K. Wormsley: Pancreatic Disorders.

NORTHWICK PARK HOSPITAL, Watford Road, Harrow, Middlesex HAI 3UJ1 P.M. Dr F. M. Pope: Systemic Diseases and the Skin.

JOHN RADCLIFFE HOSPITAL, Headington, Oxford5 P.M. Prof. W F. H. Jarrett: Papilloma Viruses in Human and Bovine Cancer

SALISBURY POSTGRADUATE MEDICAL CENTRE, General Infirmary, FishertonStreet, Salisbury SP2 7SX

8 P.M. Mr K. G. Isaacson: Braces-Your Bit

Thursday, 20thBRITISH INSTITUTE OF RADIOLOGY, 32 Welbeck Street, London W1M 7PG

5.45 P.M. Chairman: Dr N. C. D. Pizey: Skeletal Tumours.7.45 P.M. Symposium.-Whole Body Irradiation.

ST MARY’S HOSPITAL MEDICAL -SCHOOL, Praed Street, London W25.15 P.M. Dr Barbara Morgan: Pain Relief in Labour.

LONDON MEDICAL GROUP5.45 P.M (Guy’s Hospital Medical School, London Bridge SEl 9RT) S.B,"P""

ium.-New Drugs: Is Safety the Paramount Conslderauon’

Friday, 21stBRITISH INSTITUTE OF RADIOLOGY

11 A.M. Radiosensitisers and Radioprotectors.ROYAL LIVERPOOL HOSPITAL, Prescot Street, Liverpool L7 8XP

5 P.M. Mr G. V. Osborne. Compression Lesion of Peripheral Nerves.

Saturday, 22ndNUFFIELD ORTHOPAEDIC CENTRE, Headington, Oxford

8.30 A.M. Dr D. Y. Mason: The Immunology of Tumours.