Many laboratories at The Feinstein Institute study the immune system in health and in disease. Every year, about 500,000 people develop severe sepsis, a syndrome triggered when the body's immune system wages an attack on the body that is well beyond its normal response to an invader.
also rÃ©Â·gime (rÄ-zhÄmâ², rÄ­-) n. 1. a. A government, especially an oppressive or undemocratic one: a fascist regime. b. A usually heavy-handed administration or group in charge of an organization: Raises were canceled under the new regime.
The government or authority of a tyrant; a country governed by an absolute ruler; hence, arbitrary or despotic exercise of power; exercise of power over subjects and others with a rigor not authorized by law or justice, or not requisite for the purposes of government. - Chaucer.