Abstracts of 32nd Annual Meeting of Japan Bi-Digital O-Ring Test Medical Society

The Medical Society of London, founded 230 years ago by the Quaker physician and philanthropist John Coakley Lettsom is the oldest medical society in England, possibly in the world. It was established as a forum for physicians, surgeons, apothecaries and accoucheurs to give them the opportunity of meeting together for the exchange of medical intelligence. Its stability was ensured by the broad representation of its membership and its security was based on the possession of a valuable library and freehold property. Penelope Hunting has previously written histories of the Society of Apothecaries (1998) and The Royal Society of Medicine (2001), and her latest work sustains her reputation as a scholarly and entertaining writer. As a reviewer I must declare several interests: I am the Society's most senior Fellow, a former secretary and president and a present trustee. If there were errors, however, I would wish to point them out. I have found none. The chapters include well-researched accounts of the Society's early meetings in taverns and in the homes of Fellows. The story includes Jenner and smallpox vaccination, the Napoleonic wars, Nelson's fatal wounds at Trafalgar, Walcheren fever, the death of Napoleon, the Crimean War, the Boer War, the great wars of 1914–1918 and 1939–1945, and the discovery of penicillin. There is an authoritative basic account of the pioneering influence of Lettsom and the Medical Society on American medicine during the nineteenth and twentieth century (Lettsom, born in the West Indies, regarded himself as an American colonist). Lettsom was diligent in corresponding with his American medical friends and was generous in sending books and plants; these pioneer American doctors are awarded brief but useful biographies. Edward Bancroft of Massachusetts was secretary of the Medical Society of London in 1775, at a time when he was a double spy for both America and Britain; his activities as a spy were not disclosed until seventy years after his death. The book includes numerous elegant illustrations, some in colour, and exhaustive appendices of all Presidents, Fothergillian Medallists, Lettsomian Lecturers, Orators and Registrars. These provide helpful background information for speakers invited to talk at Society meetings, to historians writing on medical themes of that era, and to all students of medicine who enjoy medical yarns of yesteryear.

Purpose: In order to study the degree of reliability of the cancer positive response found by Bi-Digital O-Ring Test originally developed by Prof. Omura, Y. of New York, cancer positive tissues by Bi-Digital O-Ring Test were evaluated with standard histopathological examination. Materials & Methods: 327 patients (136 males, 191 females, ranging from 21-87 years old who visited Simotsuura Hospital Out-Patient Clinic, Kurume, Japan fora general check-up for a period of about 28 months after April, 1995) who were found to have cancer positive response by Bi-Digital O-Ring Test in the colon. On these patients, a total of 546 O-Ring Test cancer positive areas were examined. Cancer screening was made using Omura’s method of detecting pre-cancer or cancer (discovered in 1988-1989), which looks for the co-existence of a strong positive for Oncogene C-fos Ab2, Integrin α 5 β 1, Mercury & virus and disappearance (marked reduction) of acethylcholine. The exact location of the positive areas were mapped on the body surface. Subsequently, standard laboratory tests were performed on these patients with Barium enema, Optic fiber evaluation of the colon, and microscopic evaluation of pathological tissues. We divided patients into two groups; A group those who were diagnosed by Bi-Digital O-Ring Test and optic fiber evaluation by the same physician and B group those who were diagnosed by the physicians of different affiliations. Results: 1) Number of cancer positive areas of A group (same physician who diagnosed by Bi-Digital O-Ring Test and optic fiber evaluation) was 455 locations which satisfied the coexistence of the 5 parameters for pre-cancer or cancer among 281 cases (114 males and 167 females); that of B group( physicians from different affiliations diagnosed by optic fiber evaluation) was 91 locations among 46 cases (22 males and 24 females). 2) Among the Bi-Digital O-Ring Test cancer positive areas, 68.5% of A group and 67% of B group agreed with standard laboratory tests. 3) Patho-histological examination results were as follows: a) Adenocarcinoma of the colon: 6 locations (1.9% of all the O-Ring positive areas) b) Polyp due to adenoma of the colon: 157 locations (50%) c) Hyperplastic polyp: 114 locations (36.5%) d) Inflammatory polyp: 31 locations (10% ) e) Erythema: 5 locations (1.6%).f) Carcinoid: 2 locations(0.6%). Together with polyp due to adenoma, 165 locations were correlated (52.2% ). Discussion: In O-Ring Test cancer positive areas, protruding pathological changes were discovered in high frequencies diagnosed by optic fiber evaluation by physicians without knowing the result of the diagnosis by the Bi-Digital O-Ring Test, but the detection of the actual cancer itself was of a small percentage. However, if polyp due to adenoma is considered as a pre-cancer state, detection rate of pre-cancer is more than 50%. This suggests that some of the tissues presently considered to be benign and have nothing to do with pre- cancer or cancer may in reality be pre-cancer itself. In order to differentiate such a subtle point, further research for the refinement of the necessary conditions for differential diagnosis is needed. This study indicated that the Bi-Digital O-Ring Test is very useful, powerful diagnostic tool for the screening of cancer and pre-cancer tissue and so every physician should take advantage of it, since there are no better simple, safe, and economical methods which have as high a detection rate as the Bi-Digital O-Ring Test cancer screening method.

Birth Defects Research Part B: Developmental and Reproductive ToxicologyVolume 68, Issue 3 p. 277-287 ProgramFree Access 27th Annual Meeting of the Neurobehavioral Teratology Society (NBTS) & 22nd Annual Meeting of the Behavioral Toxicology Society (BTS) in conjunction with the 43rd Annual Meeting of the Teratology Society First published: 13 May 2003 https://doi.org/10.1002/bdrb.10025AboutPDF ToolsRequest permissionExport citationAdd to favoritesTrack citation ShareShare Give accessShare full text accessShare full-text accessPlease review our Terms and Conditions of Use and check box below to share full-text version of article.I have read and accept the Wiley Online Library Terms and Conditions of UseShareable LinkUse the link below to share a full-text version of this article with your friends and colleagues. Learn more.Copy URL Share a linkShare onFacebookTwitterLinked InRedditWechat Volume68, Issue3Special Issue: 43rd Annual Meeting of the Teratology Society, 27th Annual Meeting of the Neurobehavioral Teratology Society, 22nd Annual Meeting of the Behavioral Teratology Society, 16th International Conference of the Organization of Teratology Information ServicesJune 2003Pages 277-287 RelatedInformation

Purpose: In order to study the degree of reliability of the cancer positive response in the Colon found by Bi-Digital O-Ring Test (OMURA, Y., 1977-2000; BDORT) originally found and developed by Prof. Omura, Y. in New York, cancer positive tissues by Bi-Digital O-Ring Test were evaluated with standard pathological examination. Subjects: 432 Patients (197 Males, 235 Females, ranging from 21-84 years old who visited Shimotsuura Hospital Out-Patient Clinic, Kurume, Japan for a general check-up for a period of about 28 months after September, 1997) who were found to have cancer positive response by BDORT in the colon. On these patients, a total of 865 O-Ring Test cancer positive areas were made. Methods: Cancer screening was made using Omura’s method of detecting pre-cancer or cancer (discovered in 1988-1989), which looks for the co-existence of a strong positive for Oncogene C-fos Ab2, Integrin α5β1,Mercury & virus and disappearance (marked reduction) of acethylcholine. The exact location of the positive areas were mapped on the body surface. Subsequently, standard laboratory tests were performed on these patients with Optic fiber evaluation of the colon, and microscopic evaluation of pathological tissues. Results: 1) Among the patients who were found the cancer positive response in the colon with positive response of Oncogene C-fos Ab2, etc. by BDORT, 865 locations were checked with Optic fiber evaluation of the colon, and microscopic evaluation of pathological tissues. Patho- histological examination results were as follows: a) Group 1 (Hyperplastic polyp): 480 Iocations(55.5%) b) Group2:48 locations(5.5%) c) Group3(Tubular adenoma with moderate state): 321 locations(37.1%) d) Group 4 (Tubular adenoma with severe state): 16 locations (1.8%) e) Colon cancer (Adenocarcinoma of colon:3, carcinoid tumor:1) :4 locations (0.5% of all the O-Ring positive areas). 2) Case results of total 432 cases were as follows: a) Group 1 (Hyperplastic polyp): 220 cases (50.9%) b) Group2:48 cases (11.1%) c) Group3 (Tubular adenoma with moderate state): 177 cases (41.0%) d) Group 4 (Tubular adenoma with severe state): 11 cases (2.5%) e) Colon cancer (Adenocarcinoma of colon:3, carcinoid tumor: 1) :4 cases (0.93% of all the O-Ring positive patients). Cancer detection rate among the positive reaction in the colon with BDORT examination was 0.93%. If we include Group 3 (Tubular adenoma with moderate state) and Group 4(Tubular adenoma with severe state) that are pre-cancer stages, the detection rate of pre-cancer or cancer in colon by BDORT examination was 44.4%(192/432). Discussion: In O-Ring Test cancer positive areas, protruding pathological changes were discovered in high frequencies, but the detection rate of the actual cancer itself was of a small percentage (less than 1% of patients came for general check-ups). However, if polyp due to adenoma is considered as a pre-cancer state, detection rate of pre-cancer was 44.4%. According to the present medical diagnostic standard, some of the pathological changes are classified as hyperplastic polyps or inflammatory polyps; but the Bi-Digital O-Ring Test also indicates an identical response to pre-cancer or cancer. This suggests that some of the tissues presently considered to be benign and have nothing to do with pre-cancer or cancer may in reality be precancer itself. This study indicated that the Bi-Digital O-Ring Test is very useful, powerful diagnostic tool for the screening of cancer and pre-cancer tissue and so every physician should take advantage of it, since there are no better simple, safe, and economical methods which have as high a detection rate as the Bi-Digital O-Ring Test cancer screening method. Besides we need further study and investigation of the sensitivity, specificity, accuracy of each cancer parameter of BDORT and their combination assay.

Schunn, Crowley, and Okada (this issue) have documented a situation that naturally concerns all of us, the extent to which the journal Cognitive Science and the annual meetings of the Cognitive Science Society represent the multidisciplinary breadth of the field of cognitive science. As editors of the Society’s journal, organizers of the 1998 meeting of the Society, and members of the committee of the Cognitive Governing Board who are participating in organizing the annual meeting, we agree that the multidisciplinary character of the journal and Society meetings is crucial for the Society’s value to the scientific community—indeed, is its reason for being. We are committed to a policy of including the strongest representation of all of the disciplines of cognitive science in the journal and the Society meetings that we can achieve. Of course, we are not the people who primarily shape the representation of disciplines in the journal and Society meetings. This representativeness is due mainly to the decisions of scientists in their choices of journals and meetings to which they submit their research papers. In our selections of papers for publication and presentation, we consider multidisciplinary representation as a major factor, and of course we are committed to publishing papers that make significant scientific contributions of importance to the multidisciplinary field of cognitive science. We will continue actively to encourage greater multidisciplinarity in the journal and meetings of the Cognitive Science Society. At the 1997 Society meeting, a new format was initiated on a trial basis for the purpose of increasing the representation of researchers working on topics that have not been strongly represented. This format was promising, and it will be used, along with other means, to continue the effort to broaden disciplinary representation at future meetings. The editors of Cognitive Science continuously seek ways to encourage submission of papers from disciplines that have been represented less strongly than others and to give disciplinary representation appropriate consideration in selecting manuscripts for publication.

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In spite of efforts to improve gender diversity in orthopaedic surgery, women remain underrepresented, particularly with increasing academic rank. Opportunities to speak at society meetings are an important component of building a national reputation and achieving academic promotions. However, little is known about the gender diversity of orthopaedic society annual meeting speakers. Data on this topic are needed to determine whether these speaking roles are equitably distributed between men and women, which is fundamental to equalizing professional opportunity in academic orthopaedic surgery. QUESTION/PURPOSES: (1) Is the gender diversity of invited speakers at annual orthopaedic subspecialty society meetings proportional to society membership? (2) Are there differences in the proportion of women invited to speak in technical sessions (defined as sessions on surgical outcomes, surgical technique, nonsurgical musculoskeletal care, or basic science) versus nontechnical sessions (such as sessions on diversity, work-life balance, work environment, social media, education, or peer relationships)? (3) Does the presence of women on the society executive committee and annual meeting program committee correlate with the gender diversity of invited speakers? (4) Do societies with explicit diversity efforts (the presence of a committee, task force, award, or grant designed to promote diversity, or mention of diversity as part of the organization's mission statement) have greater gender diversity in their invited speakers? Seventeen national orthopaedic societies in the United States were included in this cross-sectional study of speakership in 2018. Each society provided the number of men and women members for their society in 2018. The genders of all invited speakers were tabulated using each society's 2018 annual meeting program. Speakers of all credentials and degrees were included. All manuscript/abstract presenters were excluded from all analyses because these sessions are selected by blinded scientific review. A Fisher's exact test was used to compare the proportion of women versus men in nontechnical speaking roles. The relationship between women in society leadership roles and women in all speaking roles was investigated using a linear regression analysis. A chi square test was used to compare the proportion of women in all speaking roles between societies with stated diversity efforts with societies without such initiatives. Overall, women society members were proportionately represented as annual meeting speakers, comprising 13% (4389 of 33,051) of all society members and 14% (535 of 3928) of all annual meeting speakers (% difference 0.6% [95% CI -0.8 to 1.5]; p = 0.60); however, representation of women speakers ranged from 0% to 33% across societies. Women were more likely than men to have nontechnical speaking roles, with 6% (32 of 535) of women's speaking roles being nontechnical, compared with 2% (51 of 3393) of men's speaking roles being nontechnical (OR 4.2 [95% CI 2.7 to 6.5]; p < 0.001). There was a positive correlation between the proportion of women in society leadership roles and the proportion of women in speaking roles (r = 0.73; p < 0.001). Societies with a stated diversity effort had more women as conference speakers; with 19% (375 of 1997) women speakers for societies with a diversity effort compared with 8% (160 of 1931) women speakers in societies without a diversity effort (OR 2.6 [95% CI 2.1 to 3.1]; p < 0.001). Although the percentage of women in speaking roles was proportional to society membership overall, our study identified opportunities to improve gender representation in several societies and in technical versus nontechnical sessions. Positioning more women in leadership roles and developing stated diversity efforts are two interventions that may help societies improve proportional representation; we recommend that all societies monitor the gender representation of speakers at their annual meetings and direct conference organizing committees to create programs with gender equity. Society leadership, national oversight committees, invited speakers, and conference attendees all contribute to the layers of accountability for equitable speakership at annual meetings. National steering committees such as the American Academy of Orthopaedic Surgeons Diversity Advisory Board should monitor and report conference speaker diversity data to create systemwide accountability. Conference attendees and speakers should critically examine conference programs and raise concerns if they notice inequities. With these additional layers of accountability, orthopaedic surgery annual meetings may become more representative of their society members.

Venue: Toshi Center Hotel (Tokyo)Date: 30 June–1 July 2006President: Professor Hiroo Kasahara (Department of Psychiatry, Jikei University School of Medicine, Kashiwa Hospital)Thema: Achievements in psychogeriatrics and its challenges in the near futureThe 21st Annual Meeting of the Japanese Psychogeriatric Society was held in Tokyo. The program included two special lectures, three symposiums, four educational lectures, 87 oral presentations, and 44 poster presentations.In the special Lecture I entitled ‘Mild cognitive impairment: update 2006’, Professor Ronald C. Petersen presented the recent understanding of MCI not only for midstream of Alzheimer disease, but also for midstream of frontotemporal dementia or Lewy body disease. In the special Lecture II entitled ‘Adaptation depression and late life: an integrated view’, Professor Joel Sadavoy demonstrated the importance of depression in late life. Symposium I: ‘Review of 100 years of studies on Alzheimer disease and further challenges” was chaired by Professor Masaaki Matsushita and Professor Masatoshi Takeda; Symposium II: “Field study of MCI in our country” was chaired by Professor Akira Hommma and Professor Yoshio Morita; Symposium III: “Biological treatment and non‐biological intervention for dementia” was chaired by Professor Haruo Kashima and Professor Ryo Fukatsu. All three symposiums were fruitful with exciting discussions by the active audience.The next annual meeting will be held 14–18 October 2007 in Osaka, under Professor Yoshio Morita (Department of Psychiatry, Hyogo Medical School) and will be co‐organized with the 13th Congress of International Psychogeriatric Association chaired by Professor Masatoshi Takeda (Department of Psychiatry, Osaka University Graduate School of Medicine) and the 26th Meeting of Japanese Society for Dementia Research chaired by Professor Akira Honma (Department of Dementia Intervention, Tokyo Metropolitan Institute of Gerontology).

The 63rd Annual Meeting of the Japanese Respiratory Society (JRS) was held in Tokyo on 28–30 April 2023. To reduce the risk of coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) infection, the meeting was held in a hybrid format, with approximately 1200 registered abstracts and more than 9700 participants attending the meeting. Many more local participants attended compared with the previous year, encouraged by the Japanese government's decision to downgrade the status of COVID-19 infection from category three to category five in May 2023. Participants were able to attend lectures regarding the latest findings from various fields, including basic research and clinical research, in accord with the conference theme, ‘Future of pulmonology pioneered by the fusion of knowledge’. Participants actively engaged in a face-to-face question-and-answer session after the lecture, and the venue was full of enthusiasm. I presented in two oral sessions and one poster presentation. It was a stimulating experience, and I exchanged ideas with many researchers and received helpful tips for my research. As editor-in-chief of Respirology Case Reports, the official case reports journal of the Asian Pacific Society of Respirology (APSR), I also took part in promotional activities at the APSR booth, informing participants that JRS members received 50% off the article publication charge for Respirology Case Reports and encouraging them to submit articles. After the conference, young respiratory physicians involved in allergy research across Japan gathered for dinner together. The group is named Kinkira-kai, meaning shining and sparkling. Around 30 researchers participated, talking about their daily practice and research over beer and wine. Some researchers discussed potential collaborations and decided to undertake joint research. The COVID-19 outbreak is now largely behind us, and we were able to hold a large gathering for the first time in 3 years. We have pledged to meet again at the 72nd Annual Meeting of the Japanese Society of Allergology in October 2023. It will be exciting to see how the membership of this group grows in the next 5 or 10 years. Unfortunately, the number of foreign participants at the Annual Meeting of JRS was still limited. We expect that the influence of COVID-19 on the conference will disappear over time, and that next year's Annual Meeting in Yokohama will attract many participants from Japan and abroad. I am writing this column while watching the on-demand streaming of the meeting. I hope that this excellent on-demand system will continue after the COVID-19 pandemic has subsided. None declared.

Venue: Osaka International Convention centor (Osaka)Date: 15–16 October 2007President: Professor Yoshio Morita(Department of Psychiatry, Hyogo College of Medicine)The 22nd Annual Meeting of the Japanese Psychogeriatric Society (JPS) was held in Osaka under Professor Yoshio Morita (Department of Psychiatry, Hyogo College of Medicine). This Meeting was co‐organized with the 13th Congress of International Psychogeriatric Association chaired by Professor Masatoshi Takeda (Department of Psychiatry, Osaka University Graduate School of Medicine) and the 26th Meeting of the Japanese Society for Dementia Research chaired by Professor Akira Honma (Depaartment of Dementia Intervention, Tokyo Metropolitan Institute of Gerontology). The total program included eight plenary lectures, 38 symposia and approximately 700 oral and poster presentations. The JPS program had two symposia and four educational lectures. More than 2000 participants had the opportunity to discuss multidisciplinary and comprehensive strategies for the mental health of the elderly. Mutual understanding of the recent situation of dementia care all over the world and the progress of dementia research was facilitated by this meeting.In the JPS program, Symposium I entitled “Behavioral and psychological symptoms with dementia and its related problems”, was chaired by Professor Takashi Asada (Tsukuba University), and serious problems induced by demented patients were reviewed and discussed. Symposium II entitled “Mood disorder in late life”, was chaired by Professor Kiyoshi Maeda (Kobe University), and its causes and risk factors were reviewed and points of pharmacotherapy to notice were discussed.The next annual meeting will be held on 27–28 June 2008 in Kobe and will be chaired by Professor Kiyoshi Maeda (Department of Psychiatry, Kobe University).

Abstracts of the Eighth Annual Meeting of the Japanese Society for Bone Metabolism Research

A new, simple, non-invasive and inexpensive imaging method of internal organs, using the "Bi-Digital O-Ring Test" was developed by the author. This new imaging technique does not require any bulky expensive instruments or electric power source. Unlike currently available imaging techniques, such as NMR tomography, CAT-Scan, angiography, or ultrasonography, which expose the patient to undesirable radiation, this new imaging technique does not expose the patient to undesirable radiation, such as X-rays, strong magnetic field, ultra-sound, etc. Material required for this present simplest form is a sample of internal organs in the form of a microscopic slide or a small piece of dessicated internal organ from a human or animal and a fine probe, or its alternative method (using a focused beam of light or a positive electrical field). The imaging can be carried out any place in any emergency situation, even in a place where there are no medical facilities or electricity. In addition to imaging of the internal organs, without any prior knowledge of the patient's chief complaint or history, not only can the presence or absence of cancer of specific internal organs be suspected, even in very small size, but also the exact location of such a suspected area within the specific internal organ can be localized, even when NMR tomography or CAT-Scan has failed to detect the cancer. As a further extension of the "Bi-Digital O-Ring Test" application and imaging technique, the presence or absence of specific bacteria can be suspected and localized, using the patient's "Bi-Digital O-Ring Test" response to glass slides of pure bacteria, which can often be confirmed by bacterial culture, when culturing is feasible. Imaging of different internal organs, including the heart, blood vessels, pancreas, gall bladder, duodenum, bile ducts, pancreatic ducts, kidneys, uterus, ovaries, fallopian tubes, thymus networks, appendix, etc. were studied. Also, detection and localization of cancer of the head of the pancreas was studied, and some of the clinical examples of these various studies are shown in this article. When the "Bi-Digital O-Ring Test" of the pancreas representation area showed minus 3 or minus 4, the author often found an abnormally enlarged body of the pancreas, with prolonged and enlarged tail of the pancreas, with suspected bacterial infection in that part of the pancreas, often accompanied by enlarged gall bladder.(ABSTRACT TRUNCATED AT 400 WORDS)

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The data presented in this article was collected after reviewing clinical findings gathered from using various anxiety control methods on apprehensive patients. We examined clinical applications of the eye movement (EM) component of Eye Movement Desensitization (EMD) on fearful dental patients who have histories of traumatic dental experiences. We also used Bi-Digital O-Ring Test (BDORT) to select the proper dosage of sedative to minimize the adverse side effects. For patients who did not respond well to EM, we used BDORT to select the proper sedative medication and its dosage. In certain difficult cases, we supplemented these techniques with acupuncture to augment the sedative effects. Findings were based on the clinical impressions and assessments of both the patients and the operating team. Results showed that EM, although effective in enabling patients to undergo non-invasive dental procedures such as clinical examination and simple prophylaxis, had only limited beneficial effect with invasive procedures such as extraction, drilling, and injections, etc. We also found that BDORT greatly reduced adverse side effects of sedatives such as hypertension, hypotension, hypoxia, tachycardia, bradycardia, nausea, and vomiting. For most apprehensive patients, we found that EMD and acupuncture combined with BDORT predetermined dosage for the submucosal sedation enabled these patients to undergo the complete dental treatment. The authors try to explain the mechanism of BDORT and EM in terms of visual awareness (or consciousness) and preferred patterns, where neurons in the brain respond to the actions and/or direction of movement. The authors believe that BDORT and EM could have better results if the persons performing BDORT have visual awareness and are focused on the task; whereas in EM, the patient's eye on the therapist's hand movements. A more focused approach via visual pathway will result in more favorable results in EM. Likewise, performing BDORT absentmindedly could lead to false results if visual awareness (or consciousness) is absent. "Preferred pattern" will arouse neurons in the brain to cause conscientiousness, and performing BDORT with 'open eyes' arouse the necessary visual awareness that is necessary for the successful performance of BDORT tasks.