No evidence links hepatitis B vaccine with MS. (Iom Vaccine Safety Review).
WASHINGTON -- Available evidence does not support a link between the hepatitis B vaccine and neurologic disorders, speakers said at a meeting on immunization sponsored by the Institute of Medicine. Presentations at the conference covered just some of the data that will be used to develop the...

Pilgrimage to the past: the shrine of St James the Apostle in Santiago de Compostela, northwestern Spain, is the third holiest site in Christendom, and has drawn pilgrims to the town for centuries. Octavia Lamb takes a stroll along the pilgrim's way via the archives of the RGS-IBG.
For centuries, pilgrims have trodden the various paths down through the Pyrenees to the Spanish town of Santiago de Compostela in order to pay homage to St James the Great and to seek miraculous cures and solace from grief. In recent times, these religious pilgrims have been joined by...

VISITING MEDIAEVAL FRANCE TODAY.
DESPITE the global marketplace, satellite television, European integration, and countless other inducements to homogeneity, there is a section of France, the southwest, that steadfastly resists that trend. It retains its mediaeval air in a plenitude of Romanesque churches, castles, town walls, domestic buildings, and fortifications, despite being riven by...

Palaeolithic weaving -- a contribution from Chauvet.
The new emphasis in recent years on some hitherto neglected aspects of Ice Age technology (Kehoe 1990; 1991; Soffer et al. 2000a; 2000b) is extremely welcome, and helps to flesh out a picture which has traditionally concentrated far too heavily on stone tool typologies. As Softer et al. have...

2005 events calendar.
2005 events calendar DATE EVENT CONTACT JANUARY 23-25 Aviation & Tourism www.centerforaviation.com/ Outlook 2005 - Pacific & conferences Middle East Suntec Singapore FEBRUARY 1-3 ATC Maastricht 2005 www.atcmaastricht.com Maastricht, The Netherlands 6-8 Heli-Expo 2005 www.heliexpo.com Anaheim, California, USA 9-13 Aero India 2005 www.aeroindia.gov.in Bangalore, India 12-17 IDEX 2005 -...

Start cholinesterase inhibitors early in dementia. (Mild to Moderate Disease).
STOCKHOLM -- Cholinesterase inhibitor treatment should be started as early as possible in the course of dementia and continued as long as the perception of benefit outweighs the cost and side-effect profile, Dr. Jean-Marc Orgogozo said at the Eighth International Conference on Alzheimer's Disease and Related Disorders. ...

Cholinesterase inhibitors: the earlier, the better. (Mild to Moderate Dementia).
STOCKHOLM -- Cholinesterase inhibitor treatment should be started as early as possible in the course of dementia and continued as long as the perception of benefit outweighs the cost and side-effect profile, Dr. Jean-Marc Orgogozo said at the Eighth International Conference on Alzheimer's Disease and Related Disorders. ...

Visit of Vatican official.
OUR country is honored by the visit of Archbishop Jean-Louis Tauran, Secretary for Relations with States of the Vatican, on June 1-6, 2001. Archbishop Jean-Louis Tauran was born in Bordeaux, France, in 1943. After studying at the minor seminary and the major scholasticate at the Gregorian University...

Style, Chauvet and radiocarbon. (Method).
On Candamo In the case of LSCE at least, it is not surprising that the two dates obtained from Candamo were the same, since they were obtained from the same (mixed) sample. One way to explain the age discrepancy between LSCE and Geochron is to assume that...

Washington state's flavorful wines may surprise you.
Byline: Simply Wine by Roger Rutan For The Register-Guard I REALIZE THAT some of you will be upset with me for reviewing wine from that state just north of us. Especially you Duck fans. But I call 'em as I taste 'em, and the wines I tried...