45th European physical society conference on plasma physics

The Magazine of the European Physical Society

American society of clinical oncology, 45th annual meeting.

The 46th Annual Meeting of the American Society of Clinical Oncology, held in Chicago, included topics covering new therapeutic developments in the field of oncology. This conference report highlights selected presentations on novel therapies for cancers including glioblastoma, breast cancer, myeloma, NSCLC and solid tumors. Investigational drugs discussed include rindopepimut and PF-299804 (bo...

Report from the 45th Interscience Conference on Antimicrobial Agents and Chemotherapy.

The ketolide telithromycin (Ketek, Sanofi Aventis) has been found to be more effective than the macrolide azithromycin (Zithromax, Pfizer) in eradicating Streptococcus pneumoniae from the nasopharynges of patients with acute maxillary sinusitis. Furthermore, the emergence of antimicrobial resistance following therapy occurs only with azithromycin. The growing resistance of S. pneumoniae to peni...

Saudi Anesthesia Society conference

American Thoracic Society/European Respiratory Society statement on pulmonary rehabilitation.

Linda Nici, Claudio Donner, Emiel Wouters, Richard Zuwallack, Nicolino Ambrosino, Jean Bourbeau, Mauro Carone, Bartolome Celli, Marielle Engelen, Bonnie Fahy, Chris Garvey, Roger Goldstein, Rik Gosselink, Suzanne Lareau, Neil MacIntyre, Francois Maltais, Mike Morgan, Denis O’Donnell, Christian Prefault, Jane Reardon, Carolyn Rochester, Annemie Schols, Sally Singh, and Thierry Troosters, on beha...