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The 5th International Symposium on Childhood, Adolescent and Young Adult ( CAYA) Non-Hodgkin Lymphoma ( NHL) was held in Varese, Italy, from 21-25 October 2015. This review represents a summary of the scientific sessions of this international symposium including childhood, adolescent and young adult ( AYA) NHL in countries with limited socio-economic resources, AYA NHL, anaplastic large cell lymphoma, post-transplant lymphoproliferative disease, B-cell NHL, lymphoblastic lymphoma, T/natural killer cell NHL and immunological therapies in NHL. Most importantly, the new International Paediatric NHL Staging System ( IPNHLSS) and International Paediatric NHL Response Criteria ( IPNHLRC) were introduced during the symposium. The symposium brought together a multinational and multidisciplinary group of clinicians and basic scientists focused in this field of haematological malignancies. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR] more...

Introduction Given the importance of evidence-based guidelines in health care, we surveyed the laboratory hematology community to determine their opinions on guideline development and their experience and interest in developing clinical hematology laboratory practice guidelines. Methods The study was conducted using an online survey, distributed to members of the International Society for Laboratory Hematology ( ISLH) in 2015, with analysis of collected, anonymized responses. Results A total of 245 individuals participated. Most worked in clinical and/or research laboratories (83%) or industry (11%). 42% felt there were gaps in current guidelines. The majority (58%) recommended that ISLH engages its membership in guideline development. Participants differed in their familiarity with, and use of, different organizations' guidelines. Participants felt it was important to follow best practice recommendations on guideline development, including engagement of experts, statement about conflict of interests and how they were managed, systematic review and grading evidence for recommendations, identifying recommendations lacking evidence or consensus, and public input and peer review of the guideline. Moreover, it was considered important to provide guidelines free of charge. Industry involvement in guidelines was considered less important. Conclusions The clinical laboratory hematology community has high expectations of laboratory practice guidelines that are consistent with recent recommendations on evidence-based guideline development. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR] more...

Abstracts of presentations made during the international combined meeting of the British Hip Society and the Societa Italiana dell'Anca on November 26-27, 2015 in Milan, Italy are presented including "Registry Data Errors in the National Hip Fracture Database" by Duncan Cundall-Curry et al, "FAI and Lumbar Stiffness" by Alessandra Aprato et al and "Infection and Failure Rates Following Thr in Septic Arthritis: A Case Controlled Study" by Madhavan C. Papanna et al. more...

The International Federation for Housing and Town Planning (IFHTP) congresses in the period between the two wars represented one of the most relevant spheres of debate on the design and construction of the modern city. In addition to drawing a general outline of Italy's contributions to the IFHTP congresses between the early Twenties and late Thirties, this article will reflect on some of the thematic issues that clearly emerged, especially from the 1929 Rome congress. It concerns the role of multi-storey apartment building in the construction of the modern city, the adaptation of historic town centres to the needs of modernity, the expansion of the historic city and the relationship with the landscape. Themes on which certain Italian protagonists (Cesare Chiodi, Gustavo Giovannoni and Luigi Piccinato to name but a few) have made contributions to modern international town planning culture which, albeit controversial for many reasons, seem significant and not devoid of original content. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER] more...

Information about several papers discussed at an International meeting held October 8-10, 2011 in Capri, Italy on the pathogenesis of Inflammatory bowel diseases is presented. Topics include gene research, gut flora and homeostasis and the autophagy of the inflammosome. The meeting featured several scientists and authors including Renzo Caprilli, Geovanni Latella and Guiseppe Frieri. more...