The European Society of Cardiology (ESC) is a membership organisation of more than 70,000 cardiology professionals across Europe and the Mediterranean. It is involved in scientific and educational activities for cardiology professionals and also promotes cardiovascular disease prevention messages to the general public.[1] ESC headquarters are based at the European Heart House in Sophia Antipolis, France.
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Organizational history [link]
The first meeting of the European Society of Cardiology was held in Brussels in 1949.
- ESC Congress
The first ESC Congress was held in Paris in 1952. Initially, ESC Congresses were held every four years but this was changed in 1988 to an annual event. The ESC Congress gathers up to 30,000 cardiology professionals every year.[1]
Besides the ESC Congress, the society organises up to seven congresses on different areas of cardiology every year.
Structure [link]
The Society members encompass five Associations and five Councils, which work with 19 focus groups from 54 different national Societies from throughout Europe.[2]
Programs and services [link]
ESC publishes and edits seven cardiology journals for review by medical professionals.[2] The organisation has collaborated with the American College of Cardiology, the American Heart Association, and other organizations to produce clinical practice guidelines and consensus statements related to the treatment of cardiovascular disease.[citation needed]
References [link]
- ^ a b "The European Society of Cardiology: a brief history". Circulation 112 (8): iv. 23 August 2005. https://circ.ahajournals.org/cgi/content/full/112/8/iv-a.
- ^ a b https://www.escardio.org/journals/Pages/welcome.aspx
External links [link]
https://wn.com/European_Society_of_Cardiology
Iron-based superconductor
Iron-based superconductors (FeSC) are iron-containing chemical compounds whose superconducting properties were discovered in 2006. In 2008, led by recently discovered iron pnictide compounds (originally known as oxypnictides), they were in the first stages of experimentation and implementation. (Previously most high-temperature superconductors were cuprates and being based on layers of copper and oxygen sandwiched between other substances (La, Ba, Hg)).
This new type of superconductors is based instead on conducting layers of iron and a pnictide (chemical elements in group 15 of the periodic table, here typically arsenic (As) and phosphorus (P)) and seems to show promise as the next generation of high temperature superconductors.
Much of the interest is because the new compounds are very different from the cuprates and may help lead to a theory of non-BCS-theory superconductivity.
More recently these have been called the ferropnictides. The first ones found belong to the group of oxypnictides. Some of the compounds have been known since 1995, and their semiconductive properties have been known and patented since 2006.
