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We have added two new forums. Family support is dedicated to discussions about one of the corner stones of neonatal care... family support! This forum is sorted under the section General Neonatal care. Holiday Service, a forum where you can post for places to stay or visit during your holiday, or where you can advertise your flat, house, boat, tent or what-ever for rent!

We came across a very good initiative on the web, the Creative Commons licenses, related to copyright on the web. Creative Commons is a Massachusetts-chartered 501©(3) tax-exempt charitable corporation. Creative commons provide free tools for how sharing of information could be regulated, illustrated by the qoute from their web site below. At 99nicu and according to our Forum rules, each individual member has the formal copyright of his/hers own contributions to the 99nicu information database. A member can choose to erase contributions for any reason*. But in addition, we have decided that all contents at 99nicu is also regulated by a Creative Commons Attribu…

Today (11th of May 2007) we celibrate the 99nicu one year anniversary! Visit the Lounge for the Party . BTW, hehady referred most new members during the first year online and he will recieve the book Fetal and Neonatal Secrets, one of the 99nicu favourites in our bookshops!

As 99nicu is growing larger every day, we needed to modernize the communication to all members of our community. From now on, the 99nicu News will replace the old plain-text newsletter. 99nicu News will come to your mailbox as a PDF leaflet, but you can also download previous issues from the . Information is kept short but there are links to more information on the 99nicu.org web site. See the screenshot below! And you can download the issues of 99nicu News from the Archive below. * * * * * * * * * * * Archive - issues of 99nicu News - No. 6 * 27 November 2007 - No. 5 * 27 October 2007 - No. 4 * 10 October 2007 - No. 3 * 1 October…

We started 99nicu with the idea of offering a sophisticated communication platform, for free exchange of knowledge and experience between neonatal staff all over the world. Therefore, free membership is a cornerstone. Although being independent and non-commercial, there is "no such thing as a free lunch". To cover our increasing costs for web hosting and technical maintance, we need external funding from partnerships and advertisments. 99nicu is a partner of Amazon.com. You can support 99nicu by shopping your medical books from the 99nicu bookshops set up in collaboration with Amazon, or by entering the regular Amazon web-sites by clicking on the links provided bel…

We are now announcing our first Video Lecture and our first Neonatal Grand Round. Our conferences will be based on Marratech, thanks to Karolinska Institutet which let us use their Marratech conference facilities. To visit any of our video conferences, you will need to install the Marratech client on your computer. Here is our quick guide to Marratech, how you download, install and set up the Marratech client. ** ** ** ** ** ** ** ** Welcome to the following two conferences: Video Lecture "Outcome of preterm birth", by our Team leader Stefan Johansson, on the 18th of April at 20.00 GMT. Neonatal Grand Round, on the 9th of May at 20.00 GMT. If you would…

Welcome to the first Virtual Neonatal Grand Round, 14th of March at 2030 GMT. The event will be housed in our Chat and you need to get there according to these instructions. If you would like to present a clinical case on the Grand Round, please mail our HQ at info@99nicu.org. Disclaimer: we have not challenged the technical limitations of the Chat but we believe at least 100 members can participate in the Grand Round.

There are already more than 100 registered members of 99nicu. However, to become the busy meeting place we're aiming for, we will need to become a larger community! So, to encourage activity at 99nicu we've decided to make a small lottery for our existing and new members. Among our first 500 members we'll randomly pick one to receive a SANDISK CRUZER MICRO U3 1GB FLASH MEMORY! Take the chance and Register as a member of 99nicu! 99nicu Team PS. The picture above shows the 4 GB version, our lottery includes the 1 GB drive.

Dear all, we have made some changes in the Forum structure, creating a MESSAGE BOARD. In addition to Job positions and request, and For sale/To buy adverts, you can also post information about congresses and courses. All posting is free. You can also post information about congresses and courses in the Calender! Please note that the Message board is able to read for all visitors to 99nicu. However, posting can only be done by registrered members.

We have now launched our new logo! Niklas Brunberg, graphic designer at "Mark the Spot" has kindly sponsored 99nicu by designing the logo. Niklas Brunberg is a capable graphic designer with experience from medical illustrations. For example, he has made illustrations of the ductus arteriosus for PDA.se. If you need a graphic designer for your own projects, you could mail your request to Niklas Brunberg or contact him through the web site . * * * * * * * * * How do you like our new logo?