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Notices
2004 April 2-3, 2004 — Advances in Peripheral Nerve Surgery and Regeneration, Brussels, Belgium. Contact: Dr. F. Schuind, Department of Orthopaedics, Erasme University Hospital, 808 route de Lennik, B-1070 Brussels, Belgium. Tel. 322 555 6844, fax 322 520 3556. E-mail: hand.congress@ulb.ac.be April 16-18, 2004 — American College of Rheumatology State-of-the-Art Symposium, Chicago, Illinois. Contact: American College of Rheumatology, Suite 250, 1800 Century Place, Atlanta, Georgia 30345-4300. www.rheumatology.org April 20-23, 2004 — XXI British Society for Rheumatology Annual General Meeting, Edinburgh, UK. Contact: C. Pembroke, Conference Manager, British Society for Rheumatology, 41 Eagle Street, London WC1R 4AR, UK. Tel: 44 20 7242 3313, fax: 44 20 7242 3277. E-mail: caroline@rheumatology.org.uk. Website: http://www.rheumatology.org.uk May 9-13, 2004 — 7th International Congress on SLE and Related Conditions, New York, New York. Website: www.lupus2004.org May 12-16, 2004 — OMERACT 7, Monterey Bay, California, USA. Web site: http://www.omeract.org/ May 14-18, 2004 — International Osteoporosis Foundation World Congress, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. Contact: S. Sharpe, IOF, 5 rue Perdtemps, 1260 Nyon, Switzerland. Website: www.osteofound.org, e-mail: info@osteofound.org May 26-29, 2004 — 5th International Cartilage Repair Society Symposium, Ghent, Belgium. E-mail: info@cartilage.org, Website: www.icrs2004.org June 9-12, 2004 — Annual European Congress of Rheumatology, Berlin, Germany. Contact: EULAR, MCI Congress, rue de Lyon 75, CH-1211 Geneva 13, Switzerland. Tel. 41 2233 99 590, fax 41 2233 99 621, E-mail: eular@mci-group.com July 15-17, 2004 — American College of Rheumatology Summer Clinical Symposium, Santa Monica, California, USA. Contact: American College of Rheumatology, Suite 250, 1800 Century Place, Atlanta, Georgia 30345-4300. www.rheumatology.org July 18-22, 2004 - Myopain 2004: 6th World Congress on Myofascial Pain and Fibromyalgia. Munich, Germany. Contact: Congress Secretary, Continuing Medical Education, Dept. 7980, University of Texas Health Science Center, 7703 Floyd Curl Drive, San Antonio, Texas 78229-3900, USA. Tel. 210 567 4446, fax 210 567 6964. E-mail: duncan@uthscsa.edu July 18-23, 2004 — 12th International Congress of Immunology / 4th Annual Conference of the Federation of Clinical Immunology Societies, Montreal, Canada. Contact: Nicole A. Sarault, National Research Council Canada, Building M-19, 1200 Montreal Road, Ottawa, Ontario K1A 0R6, Canada. Tel. 613 993 7271, fax 613-993-7250. Website: www.immuno 2004.org, E-mail: immuno@nrc-cnrc.gc.ca October 1-5, 2004 — 26th Annual Meeting of the American Society for Bone and Mineral Research — ASBMR 2004, Seattle, Washington, USA. Contact: ASBMR, Suite 300, 1200 19th Street, NW, Washington DC 20036, USA. Tel: 202 367 1161, fax: 202 223 4579. Website: http://www.asbmr.org. E-mail: asbmr@dc.sba.com October 16-21, 2004 — 68th Annual American College of Rheumatology Meeting, San Antonio, Texas. Contact: American College of Rheumatology, Suite 250, 1800 Century Place, Atlanta, Georgia 30345-4300. www.rheumatology.org October 27-31, 2004 — 11th International Conference on Behçet's Disease and 3rd International Convention for Patients with Behçet's Disease, Antalya, Turkey. Contact: Figur Congress Services, Sti. Ayazmaderesi Cad. Karadut sok. No. 7, 80888 Dikilitas — Istanbul, Turkey. www.behcet2004.org, tel. 90 0212 258 6020, fax 90 0212 258 6078, E-mail: behcet2004@figur.net November 3-7, 2004 — 4th International Congress on Autoimmunity, Budapest, Hungary. Website: www.kenes.com/autoim2004, E-mail: autoim04@kenes.com November 14-28, 2004 — 11th International Congress on Antiphospholipid Antibodies, Sydney, Australia. Website: www.XIth-ICAA2004.unsw.edu.au/sydney/index.html 2005 March 3-5, 2005 — VIth European Lupus Meeting, Royal College of Physicians, London, England. Contact: Julia Kermode, Conference Organiser: e-mail: julia@rheumatology.org.uk June 8-11, 2005 — EULAR Congress, Vienna, Austria. Contact: EULAR Secretariat, Witikonerstrasse 15, CH-8032 Zurich, Switzerland. Tel: 41 1383 9690, fax: 41 1383 9810. E-mail: secretariat@eular.org. Website: http://www.eular.org 2006 August 20-24, 2006 — PANLAR: 14th Congress of the Pan American League of Associations for Rheumatology, Lima, Peru. Contact: PANLAR Congress, Av José Pardo 138, Oficina 1206, Miraflores - Lima 18, Lima, Peru. Tel. 511 446 1323, fax 511 446 1323. E-mail: socreuma@ terra.com.pe, Website: www.spr.com.pe WEGENER'S GRANULOMATOSIS ETANERCEPT TRIAL
A multicenter, randomized trial of etanercept (combined with conventional treatment) versus placebo (combined with conventional treatment). WGET is funded jointly by the National Institute of Arthritis, Musculoskeletal, and Skin Diseases and the Food & Drug Administration's Office of Orphan Products Development. Experimental medication (etanercept/placebo) provided for patients enrolled. For information regarding patient referral to one of the eight clinical centers in the United States, please contact either: John H. Stone, MD, MPH, The Johns Hopkins University Vasculitis Center, tel 410-614-4905, or Gary S. Hoffman, MD, The Center for Vasculitis Care and Research, Cleveland Clinic Foundation, tel 216-445-6996.
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