We are all sweet enough; it’s time for less sugar now
Katharine Jenner is a Registered Public Health Nutritionist and the Campaign Director of Action on Sugar, a new campaign group concerned with the effects of… Read more »
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- When culture meets epidemic: the case of Ebola - 23rd April 2015
- Sleep in the intensive care unit – it’s important, right? - 23rd March 2015
A new angiogenesis inhibitor targeting multiple tyrosine kinases offers new hope for treating tumors
A guest blog from co-Editor-in-Chief of Vascular Cell, Jan Kitajewski, in which he discusses the potential of using the newly developed lenvatinib as an… Read more »
For the ‘greater good’ would you share your biological data? Science’s need for study participants’ consent
Last week the National Institutes of Health released its genomic data sharing policy. From next year, study participants will need to give researchers… Read more »
A whole new world. How physiological anthropology helps study our modern lives
Our environment has changed dramatically since our hunter-gatherer days, but how is this having an impact on our health? Editor-in-Chief of Journal of… Read more »
Quality matters: applying healthcare best practice to environmental policy-making
A guest post from Gary Bilotta, a senior lecturer at the University of Brighton, in which he discusses his recent article published in the journal Environmental… Read more »
Twelve reasons you need to read about lactic acid bacteria
You may not know much about them, but you’ll almost certainly have eaten something that lactic acid bacteria have had a hand in. To mark a new supplement in… Read more »
The human resources for health crisis
This is a guest post by Esmé Lanktree of the Global Health Research Initiative, and editor of supplements in Human Resources for Health and BMC Health… Read more »
Reading the new map of breast cancer
Research published today in Genome Biology could improve treatments, and the targeting of treatments, for breast cancer. In this guest post, Cancer Research… Read more »
Climate-smart agriculture: scientists show agricultural progress in responding to climate change
There are over seven billion people living on our planet and this vast population creates an equally vast demand for food and fuel. In this guest post, the… Read more »
Large hypomethylated blocks could be a universal cancer ‘signature’
In this guest post, Dr Andrew Teschendorff of University College London and the CAS-MPG Partner Institute for Computational Biology, Shanghai, examines a new… Read more »