CURRENT MAJOR INTERNATIONAL SCIENTIFIC CONFERENCES IN CARDIOVASCULAR MEDICINE
Currently, there are a series of academic activities (such as seminars, forums, and conferences) in the field of biomedicine in the globe, which include not only life science and basic medicine but also pure clinical medicine. For example, there are a series of international scientific conferences or congress in cardiovascular medicine (Table 1) every year from the American College of Cardiology (ACC), American Heart Association (AHA), European Society of Cardiology (ESC)/European Society of Hypertension (ESH), as well as the China Heart Congress (CHC) and Chinese Society of Cardiology (CSC), the Great Wall International Congress of Cardiology (GW-ICC),1 the Oriental Congress of Cardiology (OCC) and Southern Congress of Cardiology (SCC). Of course, there are also a lot of international conferences or congress on special biomedical topics from locals to nations or regions.