BEHÇET’S SYNDROME SOCIETY

Research and Scientific Information

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Medical Conferences

In all branches of medicine, doctors, scientists and other researchers have gathered together at regular intervals to exchange new information or confirm new ideas about their speciality. These gatherings are usually referred to as conferences or congresses.
Over time teams of researchers will have been doing surveys or trying out new treatments or investigating the way the body has been functioning, both normally and during the process of disease or disorder.
During a conference each team of doctors present what they have discovered so far, in the form of a talk, usually with slides or posters. They answer questions about what they have said from any of the other people attending the conference and the questioners themselves often offer additional information.
In this way ideas are exchanged, examined and tested.
Behçet's disease is no exception. Research into Behçet's disease has been carried out for many years, and conferences started in a very humble way in 1964 in Italy, and have grown to be much larger, more frequent and world-wide in character.

Behçet's disease conferences:


The next conference will be in Austria in 2008
date to be announced

The International Society for Behçet’s Disease (ISBD)

In order to make headway with understanding and treating Behçet’s disease doctors from all over the world, with a specific interest in it, formed an association called the International Study Group.
This has since been formalised and is now The International Society for Behçet’s Disease.
Click on their link below for details.

Broadcasting and disseminating technical and scientific research results

When a team of researchers wants their findings to be published to a wider audience as well as the people attending conferences, they aim to write an article (a 'paper') which is published in a relevant medical journal (a 'magazine' issued regularly dealing with a specific topic). The article is strictly assessed by other people employed by the editorial board of the journal, acknowledged to be experts in the particular item of interest ('peer reviewed'). If it is found acceptable it is published. Because of this process, any material published in a journal is considered to be of good quality, reliable, important and relevant.

Anyone wanting in-depth information on any subject would read these papers.

They can be read directly from the journal they were published in, but their titles and brief details of their contents (an 'abstract') are also indexed in databases, the most well-known one being Medline, run by the National Institutes of Health in the USA and this database can be accessed through the Internet or by sets of CD-ROMs (generally held by libraries). The title, names of the authors, and the journal the paper was published in, are together called the 'reference'

Many papers have been published from all round the world, about the various aspects of Behçet's disease.

New place for publication of papers about Behçet's disease:

Clinical and Experimental Rheumatology
The editor of this journal, Prof. S. Bombardieri, has offered a site for all future publications on Behçet's disease. This will have the effect of gathering together publications which would usually be scattered about a wide variety of journals.
He has suggested an annual supplement of the journal specifically for Behçet's disease and familial Mediterranean fever, to be edited by a guest expert in the field. All submissions will be peer-reviewed as normal and articles will be cited in all the usual major indices.

How to access research papers about Behçet's disease:

Internet subscriptions to specific journals
Postal subscriptions
via colleagues or friends working in places such as universities or hospital libraries

or

via the Internet Medline address: http://www.ncbi.nih.gov/PubMed or use search word 'PubMed'
via libraries that have Medline CDs
(This will supply you with references and abstracts. If you want to read the whole paper you will need to see a copy of the journal or get a copy of the paper from somewhere. There will probably be charges for this [see below]).

via The British Lending Library
Internet address: www.bl.uk/articles-direct.html e-mail address: articles-direct@bl.uk
postal address: The British Library Document Supply Centre
Boston Spa
WETHERBY
W. Yorks
LS23 7BQ
UK
phone: +44 (0)1937 546599
fax: +44 (0)1937 546219;

or

via your local lending library

A site providing information and selling non-medical books about Behcet's disease www.behcetsdisease.com

Recommended reading

Articles

Books

  • Behçet's Disease - a Contemporary Synopsis
    Plotkin, Calabro, O'Duffy
    pub. Futura 1988

  • Behçet's Disease - a Guide to its Clinical Understanding
    Textbook and Atlas
    Lee, Bang, Lee, Sohn
    pub. Springer
    http://www.springer.de/medic

Conference Proceedings

  • Behçet's Disease: Symposium on Behçet's Disease
    Rome 1964: by Monacelli, Nazzaro: pub. S Karger 1966
  • Behçet's Disease: Proceedings of an International Symposium
    Istanbul 1977: by Dilsen,Konice,Ovul: pub. Exerpta Medica 1979
  • Behçet's Syndrome: Clinical and Immunological Features
    Proceedings of a Conference
    London 1979: by Lehner, Barnes: pub. Academic Press 1979
  • Behçet's Disease: Proceedings of an International Conference
    Tokyo 1981: by Inaba: pub. University of Tokyo Press
  • Recent Advances in Behçet's Disease: Proceedings of an International Conference
    London 1985: by Lehner, Barnes: pub. Royal Society of Medicine
  • Behçet's Disease: Proceedings of the 5th International Conference
    Rochester,USA 1991: by O'Duffy, Kokmen: pub. Marcel Dekker
  • Behçet's Disease: Proceedings of the 6th International Conference
    Paris 1993: by Wechsler, Godeau: pub. Excerpta Medica
  • Behçet's Disease: Proceedings of the 7th International Conference
    Tunis 1996: by Hamza: ISBN 9973-17-850-5
  • Adamantiades-Behçet's Disease
    (Proceedings of the 10th International Conference: Berlin 2002)
    Advances in Experimental Medicine and Biology, Vol 528
    Kluwer Academic/Plenum Publishers
    ed by Christos C. Zouboulis: ISBN 0-306-47757-2
These books are mostly out of print but can be borrowed from the British Lending Library (details above)