Highlights of the BMC Series – October 2021
Racial/ethnic and educational inequities in restrictive abortion policy in the United States -- Secondary school-based digital behaviour change… Read more »
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Highlights of the BMC Series – September 2021
Environmental DNA detects threatened and elusive shark and ray species – Impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on emergency department… Read more »
Is toxoplasmosis a COVID risk factor?
The world is in the grip of a pandemic caused by acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2). Multiple risk factors have… Read more »
Currywurst, or how mushrooms could make former Chancellor Gerhard Schröder happy
Often times, the application of scientific research to everyday life is not clear to the general public. Where the importance of… Read more »