Wednesday

Nick Bateman - Common poisonings - is treatment improving?

Chris Hawkey - Drugs that cause and heal peptic ulcer disease

Jack Satsangi - Novel approaches to managing inflammatory bowel disease

Peter Helms - How can we improve the availability of drugs for children?

Maurizio Bonati - Current issues in paediatric prescribing

Michael Gossop - Pharmacological approaches for the treatment of drug addiction

Ian McInnes - Biologic therapy in inflammatory diseases- lessons from the past promise an excitintg future

Arne Astrup - Novel strategies for tackling the obesity epidemic

Alastair Wood - Regulating the drugs we need - time for radical reform

Simon Maxwell - What defines 'competent prescribing' in a newly qualified doctor?

Theo de Vries - Training competent prescribers: use of a prestructured therapeutic section in the medical record

Jorgen Vestbo - Drug treatment of COPD: present and future

Peter Barnes - Cytokines/chemokines as drug targets in asthma

Ulrich Klotz - Polypharmacy: is it inevitable?

Stuart Ralston - Optimal protection for the aging skeleton

Ingolf Cascorbi - Challenges and limitations of translating pharmacgenomics into clinical practice