Highlights of the BMC Series – October 2021
Racial/ethnic and educational inequities in restrictive abortion policy in the United States -- Secondary school-based digital behaviour change… Read more »
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Why we should reconsider population data for disease control and public health progammes
Accurate population data are crucial for understanding the spread of diseases and for the design, planning and monitoring of public heath programmes… Read more »
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Linking a disease to knowledge of its vector: River blindness and black flies
If communities are to be involved in programmes to control insect- transmitted parasitic diseases prevalent in their locality,… Read more »
What factors drive persistent schistosomiasis infections in hotspot communities.
Researchers in Kampala and Glasgow identified key factors driving persistant S. mansoni infections in hotspot communities on the… Read more »
Can Kidney Disease Affect Your Thinking?
Recently in BMC Nephrology, an article by Månsson et al. shows that processing speed is affected by kidney disease in the… Read more »
Highlights of the BMC Series – September 2021
Environmental DNA detects threatened and elusive shark and ray species – Impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on emergency department… Read more »
World Mental Health Day 2021: mental health in an unequal world
This blog for World Mental Health Day 2021 will discuss a selection of research registered at the ISRCTN registry investigating… Read more »
Is toxoplasmosis a COVID risk factor?
The world is in the grip of a pandemic caused by acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2). Multiple risk factors have… Read more »
Meet the SDG3 researchers: Uduak Okomo
Dr. Uduak Okomo is Clinical Assistant Professor with the Vaccines and Immunity Theme, MRC Unit at the Gambia at London School of… Read more »
What do you know about malaria?
Or perhaps a better question would be what do you think you know about malaria? In this day and age, with easy access to… Read more »