Treating sepsis: act fast and know when to stopSepsis is a medical emergency, but once the acute crisis is over, the question changes: how much treatment does this patient still need? Today, in the second article of our series ahead of World Sepsis Day on 13 September, Dr. Kim Sigaloff outlines why the smartest course of antibiotics may be the shortest one that is still safe.
Brain changes in women during puberty, pregnancy and manopauseOver the course of life, the female brain can undergo three major hormonal transitions: puberty, pregnancy, and menopause. For the first time, researchers from the Pregnancy Brain Lab at Amsterdam UMC investigated whether these three transitions leave similar or distinct traces in the brain, using identical methods. Their study was published today in Nature.