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The task now is identifying people who don’t know they’re infected and connecting them to care

13/04/2016 Jeffrey V. Lazarus

The experts from the European Liver Patients Association (ELPA) Hep-CORE advisory group provide a great window on the diversity of hepatitis activity and perspectives in the region. In this series of short interviews, Hep-CORE PI Jeffrey Lazarus asked them how they came to work with viral hepatitis, how the field has been changing, and where new research is called for.

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Let’s not forget ‘prevention as prevention’

11/04/2016 Jeffrey V. Lazarus

The experts from the European Liver Patients Association (ELPA) Hep-CORE advisory group provide a great window on the diversity of hepatitis activity and perspectives in the region. In this series of short interviews, Hep-CORE PI Jeffrey Lazarus asked them how they came to work with viral hepatitis, how the field has been changing, and where new research is called for.

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UNGASS 2016 commentary series: blue lights and drug injection

11/04/2016 Alexis Crabtree

The United Nations General Assembly Special Session (UNGASS) on drugs will convene in April 2016 to debate what to do about the international agreement on drug policy. As part of our commentary on the meeting, we look back on the public health concerns and the drug policies meant to combat them. Here, authors in Harm Reduction Journal discuss their research into the installation of blue lights in public washrooms to deter drug use.

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How research is helping to beat diabetes

07/04/2016 Bex Chang

In recognition of World Health Day, Bex Chang highlights some of the recent research published in BioMed Central’s nutrition journals which focus on diabetes.

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The diabetes ecosystem and small island developing states

06/04/2016 Timothy De Ver Dye

Early photos and drawings of Pacific peoples show a lean, active, and healthy population that thrived in a challenging and isolated environment. How then did the Pacific Islands become one of the most intransigent diabetes hot zones on the planet?

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We can eliminate hepatitis C – but not without a plan

06/04/2016 Jeffrey V. Lazarus

With the recent introduction of highly effective medicines, the world has made impressive strides toward eliminating the hepatitis C virus (HCV) – a disease affecting the lives of millions of people in Europe, including between 17,000 and 25,000 in Denmark. Jeffrey Lazarus talks more about this here.

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Diabetes prevention: Is education the key and is the right keyhole on school doors?

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06/04/2016 Thomy Tonia

Schools seem to be the ideal place for diabetes prevention programs. So, how can diabetes prevention interventions be implemented in schools?

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Microbiome and the modern environment: a global drift toward dysbiosis?

04/04/2016 Susan Prescott & Alan Logan

Journal of Physiological Anthropology has published a series looking at the effects of the modern environment on the microbiome. In this guest blog authors of research in the series, Alan Logan and Susan Prescott explain more about this connection.

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The science behind running: technique and injury

01/04/2016 Sophie Marchant

BioMed Central’s Community Manager, Sophie Marchant, as well as thousands of others across the world, will soon be taking part in her first marathon. In the weeks leading up to the event, she looks at some of the research that’s been carried out on running, starting with every runner’s worst nightmare: injury.

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Monthly Archives: April 2016