Understanding the consequences of abortion
Findings from the Turnaway study, which aims to look at the effects of unwanted pregnancy on women’s lives, were published today in BMC Medicine. In this… Read more »
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Rabies: What do I need to know?
Today is World Rabies Day, an opportunity to raise awareness of the disease and how we can tackle it. We asked the Kennel Club, the society behind the journal… Read more »
Turmeric, the hot topic: Spicing-up brain repair and regeneration
Any cook or foodie savouring South Asian and Middle Eastern dishes, will prize the key spice, the mustard coloured turmeric powder. In this guest post, Deirdre… Read more »
Why we need to increase the UK’s consent rate for organ donation
An analysis of the organ donation protocols of 48 countries has been published in BMC Medicine today, studying the differences between opt-in and opt-out… Read more »
Are butterflies still fluttering in Fukushima?
In this guest blog, Joji M. Otaki discusses the impact feasting on radioactively contaminated leaves has on the surrounding blue butterfly population.… Read more »
Dementia: Can we reduce the risk?
September is World Alzheimer’s Month. Today’s guest author, Marc Wortmann, the Executive Director at Alzheimer’s Disease International talks about the… Read more »
Time to reduce needless deaths from liver cirrhosis
Our guest author, Ali. A. Mokdad is based at University of Texas and affiliated with the Institute of Health Metrics and Evaluation (IMHE). He is the lead… Read more »
We need stronger evidence to make the case for close-to-community health providers
In this guest post, Dr Miriam Taegtmeyer, Senior Clinical Lecturer at the Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine writes for Human Resources for Health on the… Read more »
Together we are stronger: charities join forces to support open access
A consortium of six leading UK medical research charities will support the costs of making research articles from their funded research immediately and freely… Read more »
Top-predator control does not always initiate trophic cascades
Guest post by: Benjamin Allen, University of Queensland & Robert Wicks Pest Animal Research Centre, Biosecurity Queensland, Australia. Trophic… Read more »