35th Annual Pediatric Infectious Diseases Society Awards

The Pediatric Infectious Diseases Society Annual Awards, 2005.

THE BURTIS B. BREESE AWARD: 2002 This award was established by the family, colleagues and patients of Dr. Burtis Burr Breese in 1999 to celebrate his immense contributions to pediatric teaching and clinical practice. Dr. Breese for many years was a noted primary care pediatrician in Rochester, New York who pioneered office-based research and published his work extensively. His research and writ...

Infectious Diseases. Annual Review of Significant Publications.

KNOWLEDGE of infectious diseases advanced as usual during 1965. Evaluation of many newly introduced antimicrobic drugs continued. Their great number, however, confuses physicians as to which ones to use, and some of them are no better than the older ones. Much antimicrobic therapy still is misapplied. An anthelmintic agent successfully controlled a number of diseases. Antiviral drugs were sough...

Annual IT Awards Announced

This paper is based on the Shannon Lecture presented in August 2011, at ISIT2011, Saint Petersburg, Russia, and it presents a subjective overview of selected topics in Information Theory, Communications and Signal Processing taking an InformationEstimation perspective. We first review basic Information-Minimum Mean Square Error (IMMSE) relations and properties in Gaussian additive channels, and...

27th Annual Meeting of the European Society for Paediatric Infectious Diseases.

The annual meeting of the European Society for Paediatric Infectious Diseases (ESPID) was recently held in Brussels, Belgium, and gathered world experts in pediatric infectious diseases, vaccinology, epidemiology, microbiology and public health, among others. Among nonvaccine related topics that were discussed, emphasis was given to the continuous surveillance of the most common pathogens causi...

35th Annual J. P. Morgan healthcare conference.