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EUROMOVERS International SA and EUROVAN cooperate in the sector of Long-Distance Traffic Dispatch

June 13, 2018 R Powell

EUROMOVERS International SA and EUROVAN have announced their intent to more closely collaborate for European Long-Distance Traffic dispatching. At the core of the cooperation is the EUROVAN central Long-Distance Traffic Disposition in Mannheim, including the working dispatchers and their internal IT-support system. Through this closer coordination the existing resources can be applied more goal-oriented and […]

Henna Virkkunen keynote speaker at “ARDITO: Upgrading the Internet” on 19 June in Brussels

June 13, 2018 R Powell

All ARDITO project partners will be glad to welcome you to our final conference “ARDITO: Upgrading the Internet”, which will be held next week on 19 June (14.00) at the Thon Hotel Brussels City Centre (Avenue du Boulevard 17, 1210 Bruxelles). To reserve your seat at the event, please follow this link. ARDITO’s objective is to fill the gap […]

O IV Congress of the European Academy of Neurology, (Congresso da Academia Europeia de Neurologia) ocorrerá em Lisboa, Portugal, de 16 a 19 de junho de 2018

June 12, 2018 R Powell

O IV Congress of the European Academy of Neurology (EAN) terá lugar no Centro de Congressos de Lisboa, em Lisboa, de 16 a 19 de junho. Este importante evento científico atrairá milhares de participantes de países europeus e não europeus. Será debatida uma ampla gama de tópicos. Durante as 80 sessões científicas, especialistas internacionais apresentarão […]

Media alert: Fourth Congress of the European Academy of Neurology, 16 – 19 June 2018, Lisbon, Portugal

June 12, 2018 R Powell

The Fourth Congress of the European Academy of Neurology (EAN) will take place at the Lisboa Congress Centre in Lisbon from 16 to 19 June. This major scientific event will attract thousands of participants from European and non-European countries. Broad range of topics In the course of around 80 scientific sessions, international experts will present […]

Wellbeing a ‘work in progress’ for most UK HR departments

June 11, 2018 R Powell

A study conducted by Cascade has revealed that only 13% of HR/business managers believe their organisation has an effective wellbeing strategy in place. 67% admit that it is ‘a work in progress’. When the research findings were published last month, the headline statistic was that stress is now considered ‘a way of life’ for 4 […]

EMMA, ENPA, EPC and NME welcome the Agreement of the EU Council on the Publisher’s Right

May 25, 2018 R Powell

The European Magazine Media Association (EMMA), the European Newspaper Publishers’ Association (ENPA), the European Publishers’ Council (EPC) and News Media Europe (NME) welcome the fact that the Committee of Permanent Representatives of the Council called for the introduction of an exclusive right for press publishers in EU copyright law today. Although the original proposal from […]

ERA-EDTA is the first medical association that invests in ‘greener’ healthcare!

May 25, 2018 R Powell

The ERA-EDTA is the leading society in Europe for physicians working in the field of care for patients with kidney disease – and is the first medical association to try and implement ‘greener’ health care as suggested by the ‘Lancet Countdown’. Technical progress, e-health, the support of home and self care schemes and sustainable healthcare education and […]

Klotho and endocrine FGFs: More than markers of CKD progression and cardiovascular complications

May 25, 2018 R Powell

Klotho, the Greek goddess who spins the thread of life, has become popular among nephrologists, because the genes named after her encode receptors for hormones that play critical roles in the pathophysiology of chronic kidney disease (CKD). Namely, αKlotho and βKlotho function as receptors for two hormones, fibroblast growth factor-23 (FGF23) and FGF21, respectively. As […]

Addressing cardiovascular risk factors can help to improve access to, and outcomes of, kidney transplantation

May 25, 2018 R Powell

A review [1] published in Nephrology Dialysis Transplantation (NDT) during the ERA-EDTA Congress in Copenhagen highlights the importance of controlling all metabolic risk factors for cardiovascular disease in every potential kidney transplant candidate, both before and after transplantation. Review author Dr Umberto Maggiore, Parma University Hospital, commented: “By the time the patient is offered a […]

Shedding a new light: The implication of microRNAs in chronic kidney disease

May 25, 2018 R Powell

Development of disease is often related to the deregulation of a gene program controlled at the post-transcriptional level by microRNAs (miRNAs). A new review [1], published in Nephrology Dialysis Transplantation during this week’s ERAEDTA Congress in Copenhagen, shows that miRNAs are potential innovative biomarkers, and are promising as groundbreaking drugs. “The review of Laurent Metzinger […]