Khabarovsk, July 2004

Hi everybody!

Have coagulase-negative staphylococci ever been proven to cause prostatitis?

This question has been discussed during the fifth Disease Management Symposium on "Modern Pharmacotherapy in Urology", on May 20-21, 2004. And you can find the response by clicking this link.

This meeting was innovative in a number of ways. The venue was unusual. Khabarovsk, Far East of Russia, is a pretty city located on the bank of the impressive Amur River, facing Mandchourian mountains. The conference was organized by a joint team from Russia, Japan, Korea and the International group of ISC, comprising both urologists and infectious diseases specialists.

The programme, followed by about 600 attendees from participating countries, featured different aspects of Urinary Tract Infections as well as prostatic cancer, benigne hypertrophy of the prostate and erectile dysfunctions.

Abstracts and selected slides from the meeting are made available by clicking here. And in case you want further details while reading abstracts and slide presentations, just click on the provided e-mail address: authors will be more than pleased to discuss with you.

An important move was decided during the meeting. Pan Eurasian prevalence study on nosocomial UTI will be performed next November, and it appears already that this study will be the largest ever made. We anticipate that several hundred hospitals from the two continents will participate. Of course you are cordially invited to join: to start the process, just contact the Professor Kurt Naber naberk@Klinikum-straubing.de He will then provide you with all the details.

Remember the quiz of our last letter: how many days per year could be counted on earth 4 billions years ago? The response is astonishing, just click.

Warm regards to all,