The battle of the sexes
In this guest blog, Ann Van Soom, currently a Full Professor at the Faculty of Veterinary Medicine, Ghent University, Belgium, writes about male:female sex… Read more »
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Should there be training for peer reviewers?
Last month, guest blogger Fiona Russell – a post doctoral researcher studying chronic pain, inflammation, and arthritis – attended a Sense about… Read more »
Employers need to tackle the causes of mental health problems at work
Guest blogger Emma Mamo, Head of Workplace Wellbeing at the mental health charity Mind, talks about the importance of prioritising mental health in the… Read more »
Adverse childhood experiences: the long-term impact
A new study published today in BMC Medicine has shown that adverse experiences in childhood can have a serious long term impact on both the individual and… Read more »
Challenges in autism research: translating genetic findings into novel therapeutics
Yesterday, Autism Awareness Month in the US drew to a close. To mark this, Dr Joseph Buxbaum and Dr Silvia De Rubeis of the Seaver Autism Center for Research… Read more »
Stratifying arthritis treatment: a ‘tantalizing’ new step
In this guest post, Natalie Carter, Head of Research Liaison and Evaluation at Arthritis Research UK, looks at the findings of a new article published today in… Read more »
Mental capacity may not be a sufficiently robust safeguard in the Assisted Dying Bill
As the Assisted Dying Bill goes through UK Parliament, a key proposed safeguard is that a patient must have the mental capacity to make the decision to end… Read more »
Genetics link found in search for sweet strawberries
This post by Madeleine Martiniello looks at findings from two new papers on strawberries published in BMC Genomics today, and is republished with kind… Read more »
Farm animals are more intelligent than they seem
Following on from our post last month about research into the intelligence of goats, we asked one of the authors of the article, Elodie Briefer, to tell us more… Read more »
Borderline personality disorder – the ‘good prognosis diagnosis’?
The new journal Borderline Personality Disorder and Emotion Dysregulation (BPDED) launches today. In this guest blog, Dr Perry Hoffman, President of the… Read more »