https://blogs.biomedcentral.com Wed, 16 Jun 2021 09:55:01 +0000 en-GB hourly 1 https://blogs.biomedcentral.com/on-health/2021/06/14/meet-the-sdg3-researchers-alaa-abouelfetouh/ https://blogs.biomedcentral.com/on-health/2021/06/14/meet-the-sdg3-researchers-alaa-abouelfetouh/#respond Mon, 14 Jun 2021 10:00:43 +0000 http://8.33200 Alaa Abouelfetouh is a pharmacist by training with a special interest in microbiology, and is an Associate Professor of Microbiology and Immunology at Alexandria University and Al-Alamein International University, Egypt. Her research work focuses on studying and fighting antimicrobial resistance, particularly in LMICs.]]> https://blogs.biomedcentral.com/on-health/2021/06/14/meet-the-sdg3-researchers-alaa-abouelfetouh/feed/ 0 https://blogs.biomedcentral.com/bmcseriesblog/2021/06/10/introducing-the-bmc-series-sdg-editorial-board-members-sheryl-hendriks/ https://blogs.biomedcentral.com/bmcseriesblog/2021/06/10/introducing-the-bmc-series-sdg-editorial-board-members-sheryl-hendriks/#respond Thu, 10 Jun 2021 13:48:57 +0000 http://9.12427 Professor Sheryl L Hendriks is an Editorial Board Member of BMC Public Health, Guest Editor of the journal’s Food Security and Food Systems Collection and Professor and Head of the Department of Agricultural Economics, Extension and Rural Development at the University of Pretoria, South Africa. ]]> https://blogs.biomedcentral.com/bmcseriesblog/2021/06/10/introducing-the-bmc-series-sdg-editorial-board-members-sheryl-hendriks/feed/ 0 https://blogs.biomedcentral.com/bugbitten/2021/06/08/spatial-sampling-and-machine-learning-approaches-to-improve-schistosomiasis-control/ https://blogs.biomedcentral.com/bugbitten/2021/06/08/spatial-sampling-and-machine-learning-approaches-to-improve-schistosomiasis-control/#respond Tue, 08 Jun 2021 09:00:05 +0000 http://11.6183 The control and elimination of Schistosomiasis is a huge project and has gained an increasing amount of manpower and financial resources. A new study discusses machine learning approaches to improve the control of schistosomiasis.]]> https://blogs.biomedcentral.com/bugbitten/2021/06/08/spatial-sampling-and-machine-learning-approaches-to-improve-schistosomiasis-control/feed/ 0 https://blogs.biomedcentral.com/bugbitten/2021/06/04/when-people-leave-city-blocks-what-fills-their-place/ https://blogs.biomedcentral.com/bugbitten/2021/06/04/when-people-leave-city-blocks-what-fills-their-place/#respond Fri, 04 Jun 2021 09:00:29 +0000 http://11.6175 A recent study looked at the diversity of rodents and their bacterial pathogens to better understand how human disease risk changes in declining urban environments. The scientists studied Leptospira bacteria in rodents across a gradient of urban decline in post-Katrina New Orleans.]]> https://blogs.biomedcentral.com/bugbitten/2021/06/04/when-people-leave-city-blocks-what-fills-their-place/feed/ 0 https://blogs.biomedcentral.com/bmcseriesblog/2021/06/03/promoting-patient-and-public-involvement-in-the-research-process/ https://blogs.biomedcentral.com/bmcseriesblog/2021/06/03/promoting-patient-and-public-involvement-in-the-research-process/#respond Thu, 03 Jun 2021 13:10:29 +0000 http://9.12407

Engaging patient and public partners is becoming recognized as integral for researchers when designing clinical studies. In this behind the papers blog published by BMC Musculoskeletal Disorders, one of the authors explains how patient involvement can improve research effectiveness and lead to real societal benefit. ]]> https://blogs.biomedcentral.com/bmcseriesblog/2021/06/03/promoting-patient-and-public-involvement-in-the-research-process/feed/ 0 https://blogs.biomedcentral.com/bmcseriesblog/2021/06/03/e-cigarettes-and-smoking-among-teenagers/ https://blogs.biomedcentral.com/bmcseriesblog/2021/06/03/e-cigarettes-and-smoking-among-teenagers/#respond Thu, 03 Jun 2021 10:14:58 +0000 http://9.12417 A study published today in BMC Public Health demonstrates a potentially harmful relationship between adolescents using e-cigarettes who then go on to smoke tobacco cigarettes. This behavior may undermine hard-won progress in tobacco control that have been largely delivered through preventing smoking initiation in youth. Author of the study, Jean Long, talks more about the research in this blog.]]> https://blogs.biomedcentral.com/bmcseriesblog/2021/06/03/e-cigarettes-and-smoking-among-teenagers/feed/ 0 https://blogs.biomedcentral.com/on-health/2021/05/31/how-much-would-it-cost-to-provide-maternity-leave-to-working-mothers-in-indonesias-informal-sector/ https://blogs.biomedcentral.com/on-health/2021/05/31/how-much-would-it-cost-to-provide-maternity-leave-to-working-mothers-in-indonesias-informal-sector/#respond Mon, 31 May 2021 09:00:55 +0000 http://8.33188 New research reveals that the annual cost to provide maternity cash transfers to women working in Indonesia’s informal sector would be a worthwhile investment. The financing need would be below 0.5% of the country’s 2018 nominal GDP, significantly lower than the current annual cost of not breastfeeding in Indonesia – estimated at $USD 9.4 billion,... Read more »]]> https://blogs.biomedcentral.com/on-health/2021/05/31/how-much-would-it-cost-to-provide-maternity-leave-to-working-mothers-in-indonesias-informal-sector/feed/ 0 https://blogs.biomedcentral.com/bugbitten/2021/05/28/parasites-and-vectors-the-original-renegades/ https://blogs.biomedcentral.com/bugbitten/2021/05/28/parasites-and-vectors-the-original-renegades/#respond Fri, 28 May 2021 09:00:03 +0000 http://11.6166 Triatomine bugs and their trypanosomes are popping up in New Orleans, a beloved mecca of food, arts, and music- reminding us that parasites and their vectors don’t play by our rules. ]]> https://blogs.biomedcentral.com/bugbitten/2021/05/28/parasites-and-vectors-the-original-renegades/feed/ 0 https://blogs.biomedcentral.com/bugbitten/2021/05/25/can-three-years-of-intensive-deworming-eliminate-soil-transmitted-helminths/ https://blogs.biomedcentral.com/bugbitten/2021/05/25/can-three-years-of-intensive-deworming-eliminate-soil-transmitted-helminths/#respond Tue, 25 May 2021 09:00:50 +0000 http://11.6160 The DeWorm3 transmission model seeks to answer the question. The trial is testing the hypothesis that frequent mass drug administration with high coverage can break the transmission of soil-transmitted helminths over a relatively short period of time. A new study aims to forecast the results at the trial endpoint.]]> https://blogs.biomedcentral.com/bugbitten/2021/05/25/can-three-years-of-intensive-deworming-eliminate-soil-transmitted-helminths/feed/ 0 https://blogs.biomedcentral.com/on-health/2021/05/24/does-loss-of-smell-in-covid-patients-mean-the-virus-has-infected-their-brain/ https://blogs.biomedcentral.com/on-health/2021/05/24/does-loss-of-smell-in-covid-patients-mean-the-virus-has-infected-their-brain/#respond Mon, 24 May 2021 18:30:34 +0000 http://8.33165 Around 50% of people confirmed to have COVID-19 report a loss or reduction in the sense of smell. But does this imply that the virus is neuro-invasive through the olfactory neurons? A new study concludes that the olfactory nerve is an unlikely route to brain infection, which is thought to be a rare occurrence in humans. ]]> https://blogs.biomedcentral.com/on-health/2021/05/24/does-loss-of-smell-in-covid-patients-mean-the-virus-has-infected-their-brain/feed/ 0