<<Disclaimer: Verify this information before applying it to your situation.>> Miscellaneous Notes: -------------------- 1998 Celiac Conferences: * April 26, Sunday, Wisconsin annual statewide meeting, at the Appleton Medical Center, 1818 N. Mead St., in Appleton, Wisconsin (near Green Bay). Leon Rottmann, executive director of CSA/USA, will speak on "Vitamins and Food Choices for Celiacs". The cost is $5 per person. If you plan on attending, write to Joyce Keikhaefer (Wisconsin CSA State Coordinator), 555 Ridgeview Circle #326, Appleton, WI 54911; or call 920-734-7695. * May 3, Sunday, Gluten Intolerance Group of North America annual conference, in Bellevue, Washington (near Seattle). Topics include "Osteoporosis and Its Connection with CD", "Food Sensitivities: Allergies vs. Intolerance" (Carol Fenster), and an open forum for questions. Cost is $90. For more information, write to: GIG, PO Box 23053, Seattle, WA 98102-0353, or call 206-325-6980. * May 29-31, Friday evening--Sunday noon, Canadian Celiac Association national conference, in Kitchener-Waterloo, Ontario. Topics include "Living Well Without Gluten" (Bette Hagman), "Blood Screening and CD", "Dermatitis Herpetiformis", and a panel discussion. Cost is $135 (Canadian funds) for non-members, $99 for members. Child care (ages 3 and up) is available Saturday and Sunday, for $5 per child per day. For a conference brochure, write to: The Canadian Celiac Association, 190 Britannia Rd East, Unit 11, Mississauga, ON L4Z 1W6, or call 905-507-6208. * Oct. 30-Nov. 1, Friday morning--Sunday noon, CSA/USA annual conference, in Warwick, Rhode Island (near Providence). The cost, program, and speakers are not yet finalized. Last year the cost was $180 per person. For more information, write to: CSA/USA, PO Box 31700, Omaha, NE 68131-0700; or call 402-558-0600. * Nov. 14, Saturday, Gluten-Free Gang's annual conference, in Columbus, Ohio. The cost, program, and speakers are not yet finalized. Last year the cost was $15 per person. This conference is unique in that it provides age-specific programs for children starting at age 2. For more information, write to Community Education, Children's Hospital, 700 Children's Drive, Columbus, OH 43205-2696; or call 614-722-4949. -=-=- -=-=- Free Medline Access: If you have internet access, then you also have free access to Medline, the world's most extensive collection of published medical information. Use Medline to find articles published on a given topic. For instance, a search on the word "celiac" turned up over 11,000 entries. Many of these entries include an abstract. The full text of the article is also available for a fee, or you can visit a medical library to find the article and read it. The URL for Medline access is <http://www.nlm.nih.gov/databases/freemedl.html>.