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Conference Update: Quality information for quality use of medicines, Kazan, Russia, 15-16 Oct, 2010

International conference «Quality information – – for quality use of medicines»
15-16 October, 2010,
Kazan, Russia

 

The Administration of the Federal surveillance services in health and social development in the Republic of Tatarstan, The Eurasian academy of medical sciences, The GEOTAR publishing group The Kazan State Medical Academy, The Kazan State Medical University, and The Ministry of Health of the Republic of Tatarstan, are organizing an International Conference «Quality information – for quality use of medicines» timed to the 10th anniversary of formulary system implementation in the Republic of Tatarstan in the framework of the WHO Essential Medicines Concept. The most important issues of pharmaceutical policy, medicine regulation and use which directly depend on medicine information, on scientific basis of medicine efficacy and safety assessment and medicines’ value to public health as well as problems of delivery of this information to health community and public will be discussed and put on the high political agenda. Among the priority problems are the following: misleading medicine information and ways to its understanding; conflict of interest in modern healthcare, activities of sales representatives and the impact on health systems, which were identified by the leadership of the Russian Federation – its President D.A. Medvedev and Prime-minister V.V. Putin as the priority issues for change. The World International leaders in medicine information – representatives of International Society of Independent Drug Bulletins, International Organisation “Healthy Scepticism”, the World Health Organisation and Russian scientists will participate in the conference. The Organizing Committee warmly invites you to take part in the Conference. The scientific program will include plenary sessions, seminars, workshops and young scientists’ competition on the following topics: • Quality/rational use of medicines • Information technologies in pharmaceuticals, clinical pharmacology and medicine regulation and policies • Pharmacovigilance, safety of medicines • Evidence-based medicine in clinical pharmacology and pharmaceutical policies • International integration and harmonisation in medicine regulation • Pharmaceutical policy and its analysis • Development of the Russian domestic pharmaceutical sector • Programmes of medicine supply management; • Formulary system and standards in healthcare systems, development of guidelines • Drug supply systems for hospitals and communities • Pharmacoepidemiology and pharmacoeconomics Young scientists’ competition will include competitions of abstracts, posters and oral presentations. The Organizing Committee invites you to submit abstracts. The Conference Proceedings will be published in a special issue (#6, 2010) of the Journal “Clinical Pharmacology and Therapeutics” (Publishing Group "GEOTAR-Media"). Abstracts’ preparation The abstracts should include the following sections: Background, Objective, Methods, Results and Conclusions. The abstract should not exceed 2 pages (A4). Positioning on the page: 1 line – payment information (not for international submissions) 2 line – family name, first name and second name (if applicable), address, telephone, e-mail of the corresponding author 3 line – affiliation – the institution, department, laboratory, the head of the dept/lab, the city 4 line – the title of the abstract (in BLOCK CAPITALS) 5 line – the text of the abstract: 12, Times New Roman, single spaced, margins 2,5 cm on all sides. Example of abstract lay-out THE TITLE Background: brief Objective: clear-cut, well-defined Methods: defining methods of statistical analysis Results: concrete specific data, WITHOUT TABLES OR GRAPHS! Conclusions: corresponding to the objectives and methods. Abstracts can be delivered to the Organizing Committee by email, as attachments (word or RTF files), to the following addresses: .(JavaScript must be enabled to view this email address); .(JavaScript must be enabled to view this email address) On-line submission and on-line registration for the conference are at: http://www.evidenceupdate-tatarstan.ru/confer/ http://www.evidenceupdate-tatarstan.ru/conferen/ Abstracts will be reviewed by the Scientific Council of the Conference. Only successfully peer-reviewed materials will be published. DEADLINE FOR ABSTRACTS SUBMISSION – 1 August 2010 Payment for abstracts’ publication 450 Russian rubles – on-site payment and on-site registration will be available. Banking details (in Russian): Transfer in rubles: Р/С 40703810062190100582 в ОСБ «БАНК ТАТАРСТАН» №8610 Г.КАЗАНИ, БИК 049205603 К/С 30101810600000000603 ИНН 1653005824 КПП 165501001 Transfer in US$: Р/С 40703840862190200649 в ОСБ «БАНК ТАТАРСТАН» №8610 Г.КАЗАНИ, БИК 049205603 К/С 30101810600000000603 ИНН 1653005824 КПП 165501001 Transfer in GB pounds: Р/С 40703826862190200650 в ОСБ «БАНК ТАТАРСТАН» №8610 Г.КАЗАНИ, БИК 049205603 К/С 30101810600000000603 ИНН 1653005824 КПП 165501001 Hotel information will be sent in future email messages. We will be happy to welcome you to the ancient Kazan – – the sports capital of the Russian Federation – – the unique place where East and West come together – for health, culture and prosperity! Contacts Organizing Committee: Russian Federation 420012, Kazan, Mushtari street, 11, Department of Clinical Pharmacology and Pharmacotherapy Tel: +7 8432 73 08 02 Fax: +7 8432 73 08 02 E-mail: .(JavaScript must be enabled to view this email address) .(JavaScript must be enabled to view this email address)

 

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Far too large a section of the treatment of disease is to-day controlled by the big manufacturing pharmacists, who have enslaved us in a plausible pseudo-science...
The blind faith which some men have in medicines illustrates too often the greatest of all human capacities - the capacity for self deception...
Some one will say, Is this all your science has to tell us? Is this the outcome of decades of good clinical work, of patient study of the disease, of anxious trial in such good faith of so many drugs? Give us back the childlike trust of the fathers in antimony and in the lancet rather than this cold nihilism. Not at all! Let us accept the truth, however unpleasant it may be, and with the death rate staring us in the face, let us not be deceived with vain fancies...
we need a stern, iconoclastic spirit which leads, not to nihilism, but to an active skepticism - not the passive skepticism, born of despair, but the active skepticism born of a knowledge that recognizes its limitations and knows full well that only in this attitude of mind can true progress be made.
- William Osler 1909