Searchable abstracts of presentations at key conferences on calcified tissues

ba0001mtp12 | (1) | ECTS2013

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ba0001mtp13 | (1) | ECTS2013

Arthritis, inflammation and bone: from bench to bedside

Fonseca Joao

How exactly does inflammation early affect bone properties at rheumatoid arthritis (RA) onset? As we have shown, mechanical bone properties are negatively affected by inflammation. This could be viewed as a logic consequence of the reduction BMD that occurs in RA. However, the increased risk of fractures in RA patients is independent from BMD and this has been recognized by the WHO FRAX tool, where RA has been included as one of the risk factors. Thus, RA in itself is independ...

ba0001mtp14 | (1) | ECTS2013

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ba0001mtp14.1 | (1) | ECTS2013

CRC Grants

Camilo Joana

Turn your challenges into opportunities through EU funding for research and innovation.The European Union encompasses several funding mechanisms to support research and innovation (R&I). One of its main instruments is Seventh Framework programme (FP7), established for the period 2007–2013, which is now approaching its end.The successor EU instrument, called Horizon 2020 (H2020), is currently under ...

ba0001mtp14.2 | (1) | ECTS2013

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ba0001mtp15 | (1) | ECTS2013

Fraud, scientific misconduct, or just an oversight?

Barrett Jane

There has been much published about the incidence, detection and prosecution of publication fraud, less about fraud and misconduct in clinical research. We should be equally concerned about research fraud. It is clear that all misconduct is not fraud, and sloppiness would not be so labelled, but the protection of patients must be uppermost of all concerns.Whichever definition is used, the fact that patients have been exploited remains. This exploitation ...