This week in BMC Medicine: modeling the spread of infection
Although rare, pandemic flu is highly infectious and people have little or no immunity because they have not previously been exposed to the virus. Unlike… Read more »
Although rare, pandemic flu is highly infectious and people have little or no immunity because they have not previously been exposed to the virus. Unlike… Read more »
Whether breast cancer screening saves lives or leads to harm has been the topic of intense debate in recent years, and this controversy has been highlighted in… Read more »
Clinical guidelines are widely used by physicians to advise on appropriate patient care, and smart phone apps are increasingly being adopted by the general… Read more »
Recent years have seen tremendous progress in cancer genome sequencing. Since the completion of the Human Genome Project in 2003 many mutations have been… Read more »
Personalized medicine is gaining prominence in many areas of clinical research. In particular, recent advances in whole genome sequencing have led to the… Read more »
Mammography screening programs are widely employed in Europe and the United States. In the UK, all women over the age of 50 are invited for screening every… Read more »
Anti-androgen therapy, a type of hormonal treatment, is frequently used in the treatment of advanced prostate cancer. It slows cancer growth and relieves… Read more »
Stress urinary incontinence (SUI), the most common form of incontinence in women, refers to urine leakage during activities such as coughing, sneezing and… Read more »
Multidrug resistance (MDR) is an increasing problem for the treatment of infectious diseases; nearly 500,000 new cases of multidrug-resistant tuberculosis… Read more »
Breast cancer is the most common cancer in the UK, affecting 46,000 women each year. HER2, a cell surface receptor belonging to the family of epidermal growth… Read more »