The Commercial SEM at 50

Celebrating the ACIP at 50.

In this issue, Walton, Orenstein, and Pickering provide a useul summary of the 50-year history of the Advisory Committee n Immunization Practices (ACIP). When the ACIP was formed in 964, immunization recommendations for children were primarily eveloped by the American Academy of Pediatrics (AAP), with the merican Public Health Association and other professional organiations also providing recom...

Celebrating the ASN at 50.

By bringing together individuals with complementary expertise, interests, and ideals, medical societies realize shared goals and ultimately improve care for people worldwide. For the past 50 years, the American Society of Nephrology (ASN) has achieved these objectives and accomplished its initial mission of advancing the science of nephrology. In the process, the ASN has grown to become the lar...

DAC at 50: The Second 25 Years

1 DAC at 50: The Second 25 Years Rob A. Rutenbar University of Illinois at Urbana-­‐Champaign How does one survey a quarter century of technical contributions at a world-­‐class venue like the Design Automation Conference? This was the daunting challenge I faced when asked to survey the second 25 years of DAC’s history at the 50th anniversary conference event in 2013. One can imagine severa...

Oxygen concentrators performance with nitrous oxide at 50:50 volume.

BACKGROUND AND OBJECTIVES Few investigations have addressed the safety of oxygen from concentrators for use in anesthesia in association with nitrous oxide. This study evaluated the percent of oxygen from a concentrator in association with nitrous oxide in a semi-closed rebreathing circuit. METHODS Adult patients undergoing low risk surgery were randomly allocated into two groups, receiving a...

Hematopoietic-cell transplantation at 50.