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Managing dyspnea: development of the Breathlessness Intervention Service

Attribution: Sara Booth; https://www.cuh.org.uk/addenbrookes-hospital/services/breathlessness-intervention-service-bis

31/10/2014

On Medicine

A randomized controlled trial published today in BMC Medicine reports that the multidisciplinary Breathlessness Intervention Service (BIS) is effective in… Read more »

Air quality questioned at oil and gas sites

Researchers trained community volunteers to take measurements in the study

30/10/2014

On Health

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

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29/10/2014

Research in progress blog

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

Aisha Gharaibeh

23/10/2014

Research in progress blog

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

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20/10/2014

On Medicine

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

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14/10/2014

On Biology

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

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14/10/2014

BMC Series blog

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

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13/10/2014

On Medicine

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 facts

10/10/2014

On Medicine

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

10/10/2014

On Health

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 »

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