The EU ETS Top Ten Polluters List as a Policy Tool of Climate Action Organisations

Top ten list in antibiotic policy in the ICU.

Over the last decade, the study of mortality in patients with ventilator-associated pneumonia (VAP) has raised a controversial question: whether the patient died of VAP or merely with VAP. Obviously, complications are a major risk in a patient with an infectious disease who does not receive treatment. Equally, if treatment is administered but the antibiotic choice is unsuitable, no beneficial i...

INTERACTION IN EU CLIMATE POLICY WORK PACKAGE 5 Interaction of the EU ETS with German climate policy instruments

Top ten list in sepsis.

Schroder and colleagues expand our growing knowledge of genetic predisposition to septic shock by examining the relationship of gender to tumor necrosis factor (TNF)gene Nco1 polymorphism. Several recent reports indicate that patients who possess the TNF2 homozygous genotype for this polymorphism have a higher incidence of severe sepsis, higher TNFserum concentrations, and a lower likelihood of...

Top ten list in sleep.

Seasonal affective disorder (SAD) is a subtype of a mood disorder that is characterized by recurring episodes of major depression, the onset and remission of which seem to relate to particular seasons. This condition most commonly begins in autumn/ winter and fully remits by spring. While the pathogenesis is uncertain, there appears to be a relationship to light exposure and delay in the affect...

Top ten list in sarcoidosis.

The increase in our knowledge of the immune mechanisms leading to the formation of the sarcoid granuloma unfortunately has not resolved the key question dealing with the etiologic agent(s) causing the disease. In this article, many genomes of Propionibacterium acnes or Propionibacterium granulosum were detected in specimens from 15 lymph node biopsies from 15 patients with sarcoidosis by using ...