BMC Cancer unveils new plans to expand the scope of its Clinical Oncology section with the appointment of a new Section Editor and sub-section, as “Surgical oncology and imaging” joins forces with “Chemotherapy and radiation” As Stephen Povoski and Nathan Hall discuss in their recent Editorial to mark the reworked scope of its Clinical oncology… Read more »
Approximately 800 women die from preventable causes related to pregnancy and childbirth every day, with 99% of these deaths occurring in developing countries. Reducing global maternal mortality by three quarters between 1990 and 2015 is the first target of Goal 5 of the eight Millenium Development Goals adopted by the international community in 2000 –… Read more »
BMC Complementary and Alternative Medicine outlines changes to its guidelines for authors to help clarify when the journal will and will not consider studies involving the experimental testing of traditional treatments in animal models. What represents sufficient justification to conduct a scientific study? It’s an interesting question, and one that needs to be considered… Read more »
BMC Bioinformatics and BMC Genomics will be attending the upcoming ISMB/ECCB Conference in Berlin Germany, July 21st – 23rd. We should be delighted to meet you at the conference. We will be located at Booth 18 and you can meet us there during the conference. We should be most interested to hear your views on the… Read more »
The International Congress of Physiological Sciences only arrives every 4 years so BMC Physiology leapt at the chance to attend. The conference, running from the 21st-26th July in Birmingham, UK, showcases the best of today’s physiological research. In addition a series of public events means non-researchers can also learn more about this exciting field. If… Read more »
Optimism might have seemed to be in short supply at the 2013 British Society of Gastroenterology conference in Glasgow on June 24th-27th, attended by practising clinicians and basic scientists from across the discipline, as well as by BMC Gastroenterology. Giving his plenary lecture, President of the Royal College of Physicians Sir Richard Thompson spoke of… Read more »
Last December, BMC Emergency Medicine published a supplement containing abstracts from the 2012 Emergency Medicine Annual Congress which was held in Beijing in November. With the theme of ‘One World, One Standard of Emergency Medicine’, the congress was hosted by the Chinese Emergency Physician Association and aimed to bring together Emergency Medicine physicians from a… Read more »
Diet and depression • The epidemiology of retraction • Use it or lose it • Japanese black bears • Fantastic history of the fox • There’s something in the water • Midgut microbes & moonmilk • A checklist for effective pilot trials Psychiatry: Diet and depression Recent evidence suggests that there may be a possible link… Read more »
Today is the 195th anniversary of the birth of Ignaz Semmelweis and BMC Infectious Diseases is celebrating the achievements of this pioneer of infection control. At the beginning of the 19th century people were unaware that bacteria could cause disease and it was not until the work of scientists, including Louis Pasteur and Robert Koch,… Read more »