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ICU Management

Sepsis-2016-paris

2016 06 Dec

The International Sepsis Forum (ISF) is a non-profit organization, focused on improving the management of sepsis through educational efforts. A council of international experts and opinion leaders heads the ISF and drives all its activities. The ISF provides international consensus on the latest understanding of key scientific and clinical issues through...Read more

ICU Management

Study-restoring-muscle-after-sepsis-in-mice

2015 21 Dec

Researchers may have uncovered the reason why many patients diagnosed with sepsis suffer debilitating muscle impairment long-term after recovery. Results of their study, published in Nature Communications , suggest that a therapeutic approach based on mesenchymal stem cell transplantation may be effective in restoring muscle capacity.    Sepsis is...Read more

Health Management

Zoom-on-francoise-barre-sinoussi-international-aids-society-president

2014 02 Dec

As World AIDS Day is celebrated on 1 December 2014, we profile Françoise Barré-Sinoussi, president of the International AIDS Society since 2012. Barré-Sinoussi is a French virologist, and a past winner of the International AIDS Society Prize. Her research has focused primarily on retroviruses. In 1983, she discovered the human immunodeficiency virus...Read more

Executive Health Management

2014-febs-embo-women-in-science-award-honours-pascale-cossart

2014 21 Feb

EMBO and the Federation of European Biochemical Societies (FEBS) announce Pascale Cossart, a world renowned bacteriologist and Professor at the Institut Pasteur in Paris, France, as the winner of the 2014 FEBS | EMBO Women in Science Award.     Professor Cossart receives the award for her outstanding contributions to the study of how bacteria...Read more