Institute of Obstetrics & Gynaecology, Imperial College School of Medicine, London

1 October 1999: Drugs in school

4 October 1999: The death of a child

6–8 October 1999: Medical problems facing obstetricians and physicians in pregnancy

11 October 1999: Women and children with HIV and AIDS

19 October 1999: Adolescent medicine—the teenage years

4 November 1999: Child protection

5 November 1999: Menopause, HRT and the general practice team

8 November 1999: Community child health—modern practice

9 November 1999: Children under stress

16 November 1999: The child with special needs

17/18 November 1999: Psychosexual medicine in practice

22–26 November 1999: Neonatal course for senior paediatricians

Details: The Symposium Office, Imperial College School of Medicine, Queen Charlotte's & Chelsea Hospital, Goldhawk Road, London W6 0XG, UK. Tel +44 181 383 3904; fax +44 181 383 8555; email:sympreg{at}ic.ac.uk

University of Warwick Short Courses

13–16 December 1999: Techniques and applications of molecular biology

Details: Dr Charlotte West, Department of Biological Sciences, University of Warwick, Coventry CV4 7AL, UK. Tel + 44 1203 523540; fax + 44 1203 523701;e-mail: ca{at}dna.bio.warwick.ac.uk

17th World Congress on sarcoidosis and other granulomatous disorders

8–13 November 1999: Kumamoto, Japan

Details: Prof Masayuki Ando, Kumamoto University School of Medicine, 1-1-1 Honjo, Kumamoto 860, Japan. Tel +81 96 373 5150; fax +81 96 371 0582

World Congress of Interventional Cardiology

14–16 October 1999: Mumbai, India

Details: Prof Dr Lekha Pathak, Secretary General, World Congress of Interventional Cardiology, Santacruz (West), Mumbai 400 054, India. Tel + 91 22 6490261; fax + 91 22 6494946

International Institute for Continuing Medical Education

30 September–3 October 1999: Breast imaging update (Hilton Head, SC, USA)

9–12 October 1999: Mt Sinai 1999 Body imaging update (New York, NY, USA)

13–17 October 1999: Mt Sinai 1999 Brain, spine, neurovascular and ENT imaging update (New York, NY, USA)

Details: Ryals & Associates, Inc, PO Box 1925, Roswell, GA 30077-1925, USA. Tel +1 770 641 9773; fax +1 770 552 9859

University of California School of Medicine at San Francisco/University of Cincinnati College of Medicine

4–6 November 1999: Otolaryngology update 1999 (San Francisco, CA, USA)

Details: University of California, Office of Continuing Medical Education, UCSF Box 0742, LH-450, San Francisco, CA 94143-0742, USA. Tel +1 415 476 4521; fax +1 415 476 0318

Barrow Neurological Institute, Phoenix, AZ, USA

2–4 March 2000: 26th Annual symposium: Recent advances in neurosurgery

5–7 March 2000: 26th Annual symposium: What's important? What's new? Neurology/neuroimaging

Details: Neuroscience Conference Coordinator, Barrow Neurological Institute, 350 West Thomas Road, Phoenix, AZ 85013, USA. Tel +1 602 406 3067; fax +1 602 406 4104; email deskildson{at}the_BNI.com

Falk Symposia

20/21 October 1999: Immunology and liver (Basel, Switzerland)

22–24 October 1999: Liver cirrhosis and its development (Basel, Switzerland)

25 October 1999: Interventional endoscopy in hepatology (Basel, Switzerland)

27/28 January 2000: Chronic hepatitis: new concepts of pathogenesis, diagnosis and treatment (Cologne, Germany)

18–24 February 2000: VIII Gastroenterology week (Titisee, Germany)

Details: Falk Foundation eV—Congress Division, Leinenweberstr 5, PO Box 6529, D-79041 Freiburg, Germany. Tel +49 761 130340; fax +49 761 1303459; email: symposia{at}falkfoundation.de