10 things you might not know about breastfeeding

Welcome to the start of World Breastfeeding Week! Breastfeeding is the natural way for mothers to provide their babies with the key nutrients they require for… Read more »
Welcome to the start of World Breastfeeding Week! Breastfeeding is the natural way for mothers to provide their babies with the key nutrients they require for… Read more »
BioMed Central and PLOS Medicine are proud to be co-sponsoring this year’s MSF Scientific Day and have co-written this joint blog on both the Speaking of… Read more »
I will be attending the Global Health & Innovation Conference next month in New Haven (Yale University), and looking through the programme brought to mind… Read more »
Schistosomiasis – also known as Bilharzia – has been present in China for over 2000 years, causing millions of deaths, and destroying families and even… Read more »
The Editors of Conflict and Health, in collaboration with the Thematic Working Group on Health Systems on Fragile and Conflict-Affected States (FCAS), would… Read more »
International Breastfeeding Journal (IBJ) is accepting submissions for a special series entitled “Economic Aspects of Breastfeeding”, which aims to:… Read more »
Rapid urbanization causes farmers to sell their land to reduce the cost of moving into a city. These ‘landless farmers’ are in need of social security, a… Read more »
Studying the geographical distribution of diseases over the internet is a hot trending topic in digital epidemiology. Epidemiologists have begun to use online… Read more »
Infectious Diseases of Poverty was launched on 25th October 2012 at the 2nd Global Symposium on Health Systems Research held in Beijing. The journal aims to… Read more »
This Sunday is World Prematurity Day 2013, a global effort to raise awareness about premature birth and its prevention. Published last year, Born Too Soon is… Read more »