Women in science: A perspective from Peru
Dionicia Gamboa is a winner of the 2013 Elsevier Foundation Awards for Early Career Women Scientists in the Developing World. For International… Read more »
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Diagnosing Ebola – a day in the life of a diagnostics lab in Sierra Leone
In the second of two posts, courtesy of the Wellcome Trust blog, Professor Ian Goodfellow describes an average day in an Ebola diagnostics lab, and… Read more »
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Health workforce strengthening in fragile and conflict-affected states – a Twitter chat with Conflict and Health #HSRFCAS
On Health
The open access journal, Conflict and Health, hosted a Twitter chat to highlight the recently published series: 'Filling the void:… Read more »
Diagnosing Ebola in Sierra Leone
On Health
In a Q&A, part of a series courtesy of the Wellcome Trust blog, Professor Ian Goodfellow describes his experiences in an Ebola… Read more »
Evidence is only good with proper consideration for why and how it should be used: why we need more interdisciplinary discussion between researchers in public health
BMC Series blog
Garrett Brown is a reader in Political Theory and Global Ethics at the University of Sheffield. In this blog, he discusses a… Read more »
The enemy within: mosquitoes killing their own
BugBitten
Research published by Mains and colleagues in PLoS NTD explores a new method for auto-dissemination of insecticides, employing… Read more »
Sustainable food and biofuel production – all wrapped up
On Biology
A simple method to ferment bales of rice allows farmers to make fuel grade bioethanol and nutritious animal feed from a single… Read more »
Join our #HSRFCAS Twitter chat! Health workforce strengthening in fragile and conflict-affected states
On Health
The series of articles “Filling the void: Health systems in fragile and conflict-affected states” was launched in the journal… Read more »
FEAST trial report on transfusion practices and outcome
On Medicine
Data from the FEAST trial published today in BMC Medicine suggest that severe anemia is common in African children with febrile… Read more »
BMC Pregnancy and Childbirth 2014 in review: Most popular papers
BMC Series blog
Over 400 papers were published in BMC Pregnancy and Childbirth in 2014. Now that 2015 is upon us, we highlight the top 5 most… Read more »