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The 4th International Evidence Based Physical Therapy Conference & Exhibition will take place on Saturday 10th May 2008 at Imperial College, South Kensington, London.

The Conference is a multi-disciplinary event particularly targeted at physiotherapists, osteopaths, chiropractors, as well as sport scientists, sports therapists and all medical and healthcare professionals working or having an interest in physical therapy.

The conference will bring together expert clinicians and researchers to present the LATEST evidence based lectures that are pertinent and relevant to all clinicians working in the area of musculoskeletal health. The presentations will either support or challenge current practice but will remain true to the aim of the conference, that being to provide a review of the current evidence in the area relevant to the lecture.

Keynote Lectures
Achilles tendinopathy: aiming for the best outcome - tendon loading and clinical reasoning
Dr Jill Cook PhD
Associate Professor in Musculoskeletal Health, School of Exercise and Nutrition Sciences, Deakin University, Victoria, Australia

Treatments for musculoskeletal conditions: current state of play and what is on the horizon?
Dr Nadine E Foster DPhil
Senior Lecturer (Pain Management) and DoH Primary Care Career Scientist, Primary Care Sciences, Research Centre, Keele University

Patient presentation: Assessment and management of a patient with a massive rotator cuff tear
Bobby Ainsworth MSc
Consultant Physiotherapist – Torbay Hospital, South Devon Healthcare Foundation Trust

Leonardo da Vinci, Parachutes and Evidence Based Practice.
Dr Jeremy Lewis PhD Consultant Physiotherapist–St George’s Hospital, London.

Food supplements for patients with musculoskeletal conditions. Does supplementation improve outcome?
Professor Ron Maughan - School of Sport and Exercise Sciences, Loughborough University, UK

Joint manipulation. Is it all that its ‘cracked’ up to be?
Dr David Evans PhD BSc (Hons) Ost - Researcher and Registered Osteopath
School of Health and Rehabilitation, Keele University and Research Centre, British School of Osteopathy

Outcome measures for LBP. What should we be using?
Elaine Maughan MSc MMACP MCSP - Head of Musculoskeletal Physiotherapy, Lambeth PCT, London, UK

The neurological examination in musculoskeletal assessment; Is it reliable, is it valid?
Dr Mark Roberts MBBS. – Consultant Neurologist, Greater Manchester Neurosciences Centre, Hope Hospital, Salford

Exercise therapy for the conservative management of full thickness tears of the rotator cuff: Is there any point? A systematic review.
Dr Jeremy Lewis PhD, Consultant Physiotherapist – St George’s Hospital, London

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It's already past 3 am and I just finished doing and tweaking some presentation slides for today's international conference on press freedom and impunity by the Southeast Asian Press Alliance (SEAPA) and the Center for Media Freedom and Responsibility (CMFR).

In case you do not know about this conference, here's the news release about it below:

Legal experts, press freedom advocates flying in from Asia, US, Europe, and
Latin America to address the killing of journalists in the Philippines
Source: CMFR

MANILA - Legal experts and press freedom advocates from Asia, Europe, the US, and from as far as Latin America are flying into Manila this week to help find solutions to a long-festering crisis in the Philippines: the unabated and unsolved killing of journalists throughout the country.

Prosecutors, judges, human rights advocates and even high-level justices from such countries as Colombia, Guatemala, Argentina, Spain, the US, Indonesia, and the rest of Southeast Asia, are expected to meet with Philippine media, rights advocates, and members of the national legal community to address the topic of and to attend a conference on "Impunity and Press Freedom" in the Philippines from Wednesday, February 27 to Friday, February 29.

Welcoming the foreign experts, said the Bangkok-based Southeast Asian Press Alliance (SEAPA) and its Manila-based member, the Center for Media Freedom and Responsibility (CMFR), will be no less then Supreme Court Chief Justice Reynato S. Puno, who will deliver the opening keynote address to the conference.

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So we're now here staying at the Manila Pen (Yes, the Manila Pen where the infamous siege happened) until Saturday. I'm sharing the room with JB, who is currently snoring at the moment but wakes up from time to time to check if I'm already finished with work.

I was thinking of live-twittering the event, but I just realized that I won't be able to do that because I'm going to be busy not just documenting the event and interviewing speakers and participants but also making sure everything in the conference works well. So help me God.