Managing dyspnea: development of the Breathlessness Intervention Service
A randomized controlled trial published today in BMC Medicine reports that the multidisciplinary Breathlessness Intervention Service (BIS) is effective in… Read more »
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Air quality questioned at oil and gas sites
A paper published today in Environmental Health has raised concerns about air quality in areas surrounding oil and gas operations, including hydraulic… Read more »
New Open Access Button launched
On Tuesday last week, a brand new version of the Open Access Button was launched. Here, we get the lowdown on the new features and the team’s plans for… Read more »
Generation Open: Open access in the eyes of a Middle Eastern young researcher
As part of Open Access Week, we’ve been asking young researchers for their points of view on open access. In this guest post, Aisha Gharaibeh, a medical… Read more »
Viagra protects the heart: back to the future for the love pills
New research published today in BMC Medicine shows that Viagra could be used as a safe treatment for heart disease. In this guest post, lead author on the… Read more »
House fly genome could reveal insights into insecticide resistance
A global team of researchers, led by Jeffrey Scott at Cornell University, have successfully sequenced the house fly genome, published today in Genome Biology.… Read more »
Cautious optimism as Irish childhood obesity rates plateau
Janas Harrington is a lecturer at University College Cork with an interest nutritional epidemiology and public health nutrition and Eimear Keane is a PhD… Read more »
Making multiple changes to lifestyle factors can reduce risk of developing colorectal cancer
Deborah Gilbert from Bowel & Cancer Research and Mohamed A Thaha the National Centre for Bowel Research and Surgical Innovation at Queen Mary University of… Read more »
Thrombosis – what you need to know
Thrombosis – blood clots that form in an artery or vein – is the one disorder that causes all three of the world’s top cardiovascular killers: heart… Read more »
Life after the Millennium Development Goals: Raising the voices of marginalized communities
Whilst not perfect, the Millennium Development Goals have helped to focus the work of the global health community. But what happens post 2015? Guest blogger Ana… Read more »