Giardia, deworming, and WASH: a complex picture
New findings have revealed that Giardia infections remained prevalent in a low-income setting throughout a regular deworming program to control intestinal… Read more »
8 Dec 2019
Open research pioneers, open perspectives
Open research pioneers, open perspectives
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Allowing food companies to put nutrition claims on their products may run counter to health promotion efforts
A systematic review recently published in BMC Public Health looks at the influence of nutrition claims on food packaging with the aim to understanding how they… Read more »
An interview with BMC Public Health Section Editor, Dr Shankar Viswanathan
We are delighted to introduce Dr Shankar Viswanathan, Section Editor of the Biostatistics and Methods section of BMC Public Health, who explains the important… Read more »
Thinking outside the cube: The political determinants of universal health coverage
Dr. Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, Director-General of the World Health Organization (WHO), has stated that universal health coverage (UHC) is “a political… Read more »
MinION: Democratising biodiversity research by misusing a portable long-read sequencer for short-read barcoding
Many animal species on Earth are awaiting discovery and description, but finding all these unknown species is a monumental task. Here, we discuss how the… Read more »
The mystery of Hopperstad Stave Church
What is the white substance that covers parts of Hopperstad Stave Church in Norway? Where does it comes from? Marit Lehne packs her portable spectrometer, dons… Read more »
Mangy Mites Mess up the Mammalian Microbiome
Krisztian Magori (@BiteOfAMosquito) summarizes a recently published paper in Parasites & Vectors on how sarcoptic mange mites effect the skin microbiome of… Read more »
Anthelmintic Resistance in Ruminants: Who Cares?
Anthelmintic resistance (AR) has become a global threat to effective parasite control and livestock farming. BMC Veterinary Research and BMC Microbiology will… Read more »
Could Arteriovenous Fistula Creation be Reno-Protective?
This week in BMC Nephrology, an article by Benard et al. associated the creation of arteriovenous fistulas with a reduction in the decline of glomerular… Read more »
