Malaria Screener: Harnessing smartphone technology to automate malaria diagnostics
Malaria continues to be a global challenge to population health, and the scale of the problem is driven by a lack of trained personnel and equipment… Read more »
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Highlights from the BMC Series – November 2020
The micropolitics of healthcare, primary care in the midst of the opioid epidemic, contaminated wooly mammoth DNA, and more.
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What makes a prize-winning paper? Observations from the 2020 Brain Structure and Function Editors’ Choice Award
We take a look at the papers that won this year’s Brain Structure and Function Editors’ Choice Award, and catch up with the… Read more »
Highlights from the BMC Series – October 2020
Early life household and timing of pubertal onset in girls - Fewer criminalizing immigrant policies have smaller health care… Read more »
Gender gaps in maths and science are not a given!
Over-representation of male students among high achievers in science is still striking. Educational research keeps exploring why… Read more »
Finding an Effective Spanish-Language Assessment Tool for Alzheimer’s Disease
This September is World Alzheimer’s Month. With an estimated 54 million people living with dementia worldwide,… Read more »
Dengue: don’t you, forget about me!
At a time when we seem to hear only about COVID 19, it is easy to forget about other diseases that have had, and will continue to… Read more »
Can a systematic usability evaluation help us develop better wearable robots?
Wearable robotics has gained increasing attention over the past years. Researchers at the Rehabilitation Engineering Laboratory… Read more »
“Sister I Love You!” Facebook users engage more with social posts than health misinformation
In the past few years, the rise of social media and digital platforms has fueled fears concerning the diffusion of inaccurate… Read more »
BMC Series highlights: June 2020
• Colorectal cysts: A simple model system for testing the efficacy of CAR-T cells against malignancies • Bipolar disease is… Read more »