LETTERS
Message from the Chief Editor
To Dr. Sadika A. Al-Awadi
MBBCH, DCH (Ain Shams), MD (Dublin), FRCP(Edin)
In February 2006, Kuwait Medical Genetics Centre (KMGC) will celebrate its 25th anniversary of operations. The Center's Founder and Director, Dr. Sadika Al-Awadi, will be hosting the first international conference of medical genetics to be held at the luxurious Marina Mall Hotel with 12 distinguished speakers from Canada, Egypt, France, Germany, Oman, Saudi Arabia, Switzerland, Tunisia, UK and USA. Sessions will discuss community genetics, aneuploidy syndromes, metabolic disorders, clinical dysmorphology, molecular genetics and neurogenetics. I am honoured to have been invited among the strong line-up of distinguished medical scientists at this conference. The Ambassadors Research Foundation congratulates the Kuwait Ministry of Public Health and Kuwait University for organizing the first such conference, with the hopes that research presented will serve national, regional and global benefits. Conference information is available at www.hsc.edu.kw/medicine/events/KMGC_Int_Conference/
The Ambassadors Magazine will prepare a supplement in its next issue (Volume 9, Issue 2, July 2006) entitled "EXCEPTIONAL MEN AND WOMEN IN MODERN KUWAIT"
Prof. Talaat I. Farag
LETTERS TO THE AMBASSADORS
I am a Staff Writer for The Cardinal Tradition. The Cardinal Tradition is a high school newspaper, in Elizabeth High School. I am writing an article on Amish Communities and since I live in Colorado I'm having difficulty getting pictures. I was looking on The Ambassadors website and I thought the pictures were capturing what I wanted for the article. Can I please have your permission to use these pictures?
Katie Graber
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I am a student of English literature and interested in studying suicides in Shakespearean tragedies since that is the topic of my thesis. I appreciate if you provide me with any article or source.
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Sitting in front of a computer for a prolonged period can take its toll on your body. Protect yourself against common computer-related aches and pains with these tips from the American Physical Therapy Association: Get up every half hour and do some gentle stretches. Keep your feet flat on the floor or consider using a foot rest. Don't let your hands hover over the keyboard. This creates excess tension in your hands and arms. Watch for lighting glare. Use the 20-20-20 rule: blink 20 times, and stare 20 feet away from the screen every 20 minutes. Avoid movements that put your neck in an awkward position.
Prof. Ibrahim Sayad, MD
Kuwait
I would like to be part of the magazine. I have written many poems in the past two years. dealing with issues of death, love, hate, rage and many other aspects of human behaviour and of course my personal experiences.
Mohannad Elkhouly
mkholy@hotmail.com
The 1st International Cleft lip and Palate Foundation is a live surgical demonstration workshop on cleft and craniofacial deformities, to be held in Chennai, (Madras), India from the 3rd to 6th of December 2005. Afternoon SCIENTIFIC SESSIONS will be held on : Genetics, Prevention, Speech therapy, New techniques, Old techniques, Controversies, Cleft missions. For details log onto www.cleftworkshop.com
Prof. Dr. S.M. Balaji
Organizing Chairman,
1st International Workshop of the ICPF,
Balaji Craniofacial Hospital and Research Institute
Chennai, India
smbalaji@eth.net
It was a great pleasure to read in the July 2005 issue review of the Medical Mind of Shakespeare. The review was beautifully illustrated with nice comments that pleased us no end. You would have guessed by now, that I am the author of that book. The Medical Mind of Shakespeare has been out of print in Australia for many years. I approached the publishers for another edition but they were not prepared to print a second edition. Reading your reviews, I get a feeling that the book is available in America. Is this possible? I trust you will appreciate my curiosity in this regards, and I would appreciate hearing from you.
Dr. Aubrey C Kail
Sydney, Australia
I am the executive director of a foundation in Michigan which holds an annual event each April. It is a black tie event attended by corporate donors to support education and opportunities for persons with Down syndrome. The past two years, we have displayed and sold art by artists with developmental challenges. Do you have someone I could talk with about your program and the possible participation of one or two of your artists at our event next April?
Cynthia Kidder
Founder, Band of Angels Foundation
www.bandofangels.com
cynkidder@comcast.net
For your kind attention our Omani genetics website setup by the Ministry of Health.
<www.moh.gov.om/genetics>Dr. Anna Rajab, MD, DCH, MRCP, PhD & Dr. Hassan Sadek, PhD, FASCP
Muscat, Sultanate of Oman
We had a busy second quarter at Destination China. One of the highlights was the annual Leadership Summit of the world’s top accounting firm --- PricewaterhouseCoopers. We handled this gathering of Senior Partners from all over the world in Beijing; attended by a who’s who in the accounting world. We invite you to read the particularly warm letter of appreciation that we received after this prestigious meeting at our website.
Issy Scher, CITE
Destination China
Incentive Travel Adviser to the Beijing Tourism Administration
scher@destinationchina.biz
www.destinationchina.biz
The GSA meeting--"Genetic Analysis:Model Organisms to Human Biology" will be held January 5-7, 2006 in San Diego, California. An outstanding roster of speakers has been scheduled (http://www.gsa-modelorganisms.org/); several additional talks will be chosen from among the submitted abstracts. The meeting will highlight and emphasize the value of model organisms for biomedical research, and reflects GSA's continuing efforts to promote communication and enhance interactions across all branches of genetics. Learn more about the meeting at: http://www.gsa-modelorganisms.org.
Elaine Strass
Executive Director
Genetics Society of America
http://www.genetics-gsa.org/
Full Color Atlas of Over 200 Genetic Disorders, Malformations, and Malformation Syndromes. Pictorial review of 203 genetic disorders, malformations, and malformation syndromes! Also featuring over 650 color photographs illustrating clinical features and diagnostic strategies.
Atlas of Genetic Diagnosis and Counselling
By Harold Chen, MD, FAAP
Louisiana State University Health Science Center, Shreveport, LA
Atlas of Genetic Diagnosis and Counselling reflects the author's 38-year experience in clinical genetics practice incorporating clinical photographs of patents to illustrate selected genetic disorders and congenital malformations. A detailed outline of each disorder is provided describing the genetic/basic defects, clinical features, diagnostic investigations, and genetic counselling including recurrence risk, prenatal diagnosis, and management. Color photographs are used to illustrate the findings in different age groups and ethnicities. The Atlas also includes photographs of prenatal ultrasound, imaging, molecular, cytogenetic, and post-mortem findings to help illustrate diagnostic strategies and trying to gap the basic science and clinical medicine. An extensive literature review is included to ensure up-to-date information and to provide a relevant bibliography for each disorder. This important Atlas will help physicians in their recognition and understanding of these conditions and their care of affected individuals and families.Humana
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The Hereditary Breast and Ovarian Cancer Foundation held the First International Symposium on the Hereditary Breast and Ovarian Cancer Susceptibility Genes in Montreal, Canada in October. It was done in cooperation with: the American Board of Genetic Counsellors; McGill University's Continuing Medical Education program; and the Canadian Association of Genetic Counsellors. For more information on the conference, visit www.odon.ca/brca and www.hboc.ca.
Robert O'Donoughue
Conference Coordinator
BRCA - Today and Tomorrow
Montréal, Québec, Canada
brca@odon.ca
The idea of establishing the MIDDLE EAST CHROMOSOME ABNORMALITY DATA BASE (MECAD) has been initiated by the great work of Prof. Digambar S. Borgaonkar, my Guru, and Founder/Author of CHROMOSOMAL VARIATION IN MAN: A catalog of Chromosomal Variants and Anomalies, which has been published since 1974, and the 9th Edition is due for publication by John Wiley Publishers. As a Cytogeneticist, since last 35 years, and working in the Middle East (Kuwait and Dubai,UAE) during the last 25 years, I have been thinking of establishing a ME-CAD with Prof. Borgaonkar to register all cases of chromosomal abnormalities and variants, some of them extremely rare, as no such database is available for MIDDLE EAST (Arab Population). The database will be set up that can be accessible through the Web and that will allow Clinicians, Cytogeneticists, and researchers to submit and retrieve information on chromosomal abnormalities diagnosed in various Genetic Centers in the Middle East.
DR. KRISHNA MURTHY MSc PhD
Dubai, U.A.E.
krishna@cshdubai.com
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looking to expand their line of science books aimed at a broadly based
readership. If you've been writing or thinking about writing a popular science
book, check out the website www.ecwpress.com
ECW Press
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We are very happy to publish a link to your website The Ambassadors on our review Arabesques links page: www.arabesquespress.org, and would be very thankful to you if you could please add a link to our magazine and its call for submissions in your Links and News pages. The Arabesques Review also Arabesque International www.arabesque-international.com promote like the Ambassadors Online Magazine the Cultural and Civilisations Dialogue via the literary and artistic expressions but also by any academic study or reflection article. We hope to receive any of your participation and contribution to our pages. Counting on your understanding and your very precious help, we wish you and to your great and original website all the success. Our second English issue is now published and include more than twenty
writers from different horizons around the world like: John Balaban, Jeffrey Beam, Cyril Wong, Colin Honnor, Arlene Ang, and Sam Silva.the Arabesques Editors
THE ARABESQUES LITERARY REVIEW
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Thank you for making my essay written in 1999 in The Ambassadors Magazine available at your website. Could you correct the address at the bottom of your page at http://ambassadors.net/archives/issue6/opinions.htm to read my updated contact information?
Steve Diamond, Co-director
One Day in Peace, January 1" Campaign
Santa Barbara, California
ommm7@hotmail.com
