Prudent antibiotics

Vasthie Prudent

First reported more than 250 years ago by Patin who describe it as “turning into wood” (1), Fibrodysplasia (Myositis) Ossificans Progressiva (FOP) is a rare autosomal dominant disorder (approximately 1 in 1.6 million worldwide) marked by post-natal progressive heterotropic ossification (HO) of soft tissue including tendons, ligaments, fascia and muscle (1). Despite all the great advances in sci...

Prudent use of antibiotics: acute exacerbation of COPD as an example.

T his is an important year for respiratory medicine, as 2010 has been declared ‘‘Year of the Lung’’. A multitude of activities have been prepared long in advance and many important initiatives are on their way or yet to come. The European Centre for Disease Prevention and Control (ECDC) has, in parallel, been campaigning for several years for a more prudent use of antibiotics [1]. Last year was...

Promoting prudent use of antibiotics: the experience from a multifaceted regional campaign in Greece

BACKGROUND Antibiotic resistance, a major public health problem, has been linked to antibiotic consumption. In Greece both consumption and resistance rates are among the highest in Europe. A multifaceted campaign targeting both physicians and parents of school children was implemented for the first time in order to educate the public and update doctors, aiming to promote judicious use of antibi...

Raising awareness about prudent use of antibiotics: a necessity for the European Union.

Prudent Self-Avoiding Walks

We have produced extended series for prudent self-avoiding walks on the square lattice. These are subsets of self-avoiding walks. We conjecture the exact growth constant and critical exponent for the walks, and show that the (anisotropic) generating function is almost certainly not differentiably-finite.