Monthly Archives: August 2012

New psychology journal joins the BMC series family!

Psychology; what does that word actually mean? When you ask people what psychology is, it usually takes them some time to come to a clear conclusion and words like “mind, brain, behavior, analysis, crazy and thought” come up repeatedly. The Oxford dictionary describes psychology as being ‘the scientific study of the human mind and its… Read more »

Medicine
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How to genetically modify a better garden

You like pretty flowers but your immune system hates their pollen? You wish your pretty flowers would bloom for just that little bit longer? Well, science is making it happen. In a new article published today in BMC Plant Biology, Begoña García-Sogo and colleagues from the Instituto de Biología Molecular y Celular de Plantas (IBMCP)… Read more »

Biology
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BMC MIDM at MIE2012

BMC Medical Informatics and Decision Making is excited to be attending the 24th European Medical Informatics Conference (MIE2012) in Pisa, Italy, from August 26th -29th. The theme of the conference is “Quality of Life through Quality of Information,” and delegates from over forty countries will be discussing and demonstrating the latest developments in the field… Read more »

Medicine

The best nutrition for very low birthweight babies

In an article published today in BMC Pediatrics, Colaizy, et al. show that very low birthweight (VLBW) babies grow adequately in the hospital before discharge when fed on a diet of predominantly human milk, regardless of whether that milk is derived from the mother or from a breast milk donor. In this retrospective cohort study… Read more »

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BMC Pharmacology and Toxicology, a new BMC series journal

Today two of our pharmacology titles within the BMC series, BMC Pharmacology and BMC Clinical Pharmacology, are joining forces to form BMC Pharmacology and Toxicology. Our aim is to facilitate connections between pre-clinical and clinical research, especially in this era of translational medicine. The new journal has an expanded scope to incorporate the interdisciplinary field… Read more »

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Females with rheumatoid arthritis and psoriasis inappropriately treated?

The overall estimated prevalence of immune-mediated inflammatory diseases in western societies is 5-7%. Interestingly, the European Working Group on Immune-Mediated  Inflammatory Diseases has initiated a forum to foster collaborations in this important clinical field which includes diseases such as rheumatoid arthritis (RA), inflammatory bowel disease (IBD) and psoriasis. All three diseases have similar pathophysiology and… Read more »

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