A Map for Drug Discovery
Benoit Coulombe and Marie-Soleil Gauthier of the Montreal Clinical Research Institute (Montréal, Canada), discuss the Rare Disease Cell Map, the Open… Read more »
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Dual Deprivation for Rare Disease
This piece, our final runner-up entry in Findacure and Medics4RareDiseases' "Student Voice" contest, speaks to the need to understand the… Read more »
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No Country for Healthcare Equity
The diagnosis and delivery of treatment for rare diseases can vary greatly between different populations or groups within the same… Read more »
The U.S. Congress is back in the business of funding gun research. Now what? Part 1
In its 2020 budget, the U.S. Congress earmarked $25 million for the Centers for Disease Control and the National Institutes of… Read more »
Improving Rare Disease Recognition Via Medical Education
This piece, a runner-up entry in Findacure and Medics4RareDiseases' "Student Voice" contest, explores how current methods of… Read more »
Defining and coping with fake news: a survey of university faculty
Nowadays, fake news are a well-known phenomenon and identified as such on a daily basis. But do we really know what constitute… Read more »
London Global Cancer Week 2019 – New Solutions to evolving challenges
BMC Cancer recently attended the 4th Meeting on ‘Cancer control in low and middle income countries’ as part of the London… Read more »
Performance scores and kidney discard rates: the challenging balance for transplant centers
This month in BMC Nephrology, a study by Lee et al. found that the survival rates of dual kidney transplant… Read more »
Challenges and Strategies for Making a Smooth Transition from Pediatric to Adult Nephrology
This week in BMC Nephrology, an article by Joslin et al. evaluated young adult patient perceptions of the transition from… Read more »
An eye worm most fowl
While the eye worm Oxyspirura petrowi is highly prevalent in northern bobwhite quail, little is known about the life cycle. A… Read more »