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Shock of the new: treatment to beat sepsis

Shock of the new: treatment to beat sepsis

|Common symptoms of sepsis include fever, increased heart rates and confusion, while other symptoms can be related to specific infections but in some patients, particularly the most vulnerable, there may be no symptoms at all.|Margarita Salcedo-Magguilli joined Inotrem in October 2015 and is responsible for the successful transition from pre-clinical to clinical stage, regulatory development, biomarker and companion diagnostic strategies, and drug product manufacturing. She has a PhD in immunology and tumour biology from the Karolinska Institute.|Although sepsis begins with an infection, it is the body’s excessive response to that infection that can trigger severe illness, such as organs shutting down.|Jean-Jacques Palombo is a board-certified physician and received his MD from Paris University. He completed his medical residency in internal medicine at the Hopital Bichat in Paris before becoming a medical expert at Afssaps, the French FDA. He also earned an MBA from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

The way to a woman’s heart

The way to a woman’s heart

|Professor Maja-Lisa Løchen: Professor Maja-Lisa Løchen is professor of preventative medicine at UiT The Arctic University of Norway in Tromsø. Her most recent book is Women’s Hearts: A medical textbook on common heart diseases, co-authored with Professor Eva Gerdts.|Heart disease may sometimes be harder to spot in women than men.|Women suffering heart disease sometimes don’t seek help from a GP because they consider their symptoms too trivial.

Point of impact: curbing influenza with digital immunoassays

Point of impact: curbing influenza with digital immunoassays

|Dr Emily Toth Martin is an assistant professor of epidemiology at the University of Michigan School of Public Health. She received her PhD from the University of Washington in 2009. Martin’s research interests include respiratory virus epidemiology and molecular epidemiology.|Dr Jesse Papenburg is a paediatric infectious disease specialist and medical microbiologist at Montreal Children’s Hospital, part of the McGill University Health Centre. He graduated from McGill University with a BSc, majoring in microbiology and immunology.|The quick diagnosis of influenza can help improve care for patients and boost the efficacy of treatments such as antivirals.

Laser focus: detecting cancer through OCT

Laser focus: detecting cancer through OCT

|Jon Holmes co-founded Michelson Diagnostics in 2006. A physicist by training, he has more than 30 years’ experience in optical imaging, the first 14 of which were in industrial manufacturing, where he developed his interests in applications of laser scanning. Holmes was elected a fellow of the Institute of Physics in 2017.|New technology can detect blood vessels grown by a malignant melanoma.|VivoSight could save patients from the discomfort and distress of biopsies.|The laser tool provides live subsurface images of skin to a depth of 1mm.

Sharp practice: innovative injection technology to avoid needle-stick incidents

Sharp practice: innovative injection technology to avoid needle-stick incidents

|Philip Tanner has worked in health and safety since 1992. He is a chartered member of the Institution of Occupational Safety and Health, and has been a management representative on the NHS’s Health, Safety and Wellbeing Partnership group for the past five years.|New forms of equipment and better training could help reduce needle-stick injuries.

A dangerous game: ‘Keep Anitbiotics Working’ campaign

A dangerous game: ‘Keep Anitbiotics Working’ campaign

|Dr Susan Hopkins is a healthcare epidemiologist for PHE, and is also a consultant in infectious diseases and microbiology for the Royal Free London NHS Foundation Trust. She leads the development of surveillance and interventions related to the AMR strategy.|AMR poses a great threat to modern medicine and has already started to make common conditions untreatable.|The PHE campaign urges the public to follow antibiotic-related advice given by GPs.

Fancy footwork: preventing diabetic amputations

Fancy footwork: preventing diabetic amputations

|Dr Richard Paisey is an honorary consultant physician at Torbay Hospital in Devon, and the lead for diabetes footcare for the south-west region of England. He is also locum diabetes consultant at North Devon District Hospital and a trustee for the charity Alström Syndrome UK.|Patients with diabetes are more vulnerable to foot ulcers and need a package of connected services to help them manage the condition.

Step forward: EWMA’s advanced therapies in clinical wound management

Step forward: EWMA’s advanced therapies in clinical wound management

|Dr Alberto Piaggesi: Since graduating from Italy’s University of Pisa in 1982, Dr Alberto Piaggesi has gone on to become a professor in the department of endocrinology and metabolism at the same establishment. He is also the director of Pisa University Hospital’s foot section.|The application of telemedicine and wearables to diabetic footcare could help physicians check on patients remotely, detect serious illnesses and track adherence to the therapy.