Today marks the International Day of Forests and so in this guest blog by Armand Séguin, board member for BMC Plant Biology, we focus on one of the major issues facing our forests today: climate change. Can the trees adapt as quickly as the environment is changing? Or is there an alternative that might be able to help…
Research published in BMC Pregnancy and Childbirth looked into how the representation of childbirth in the mass media affects childbirth in society as there is evidence to suggest that it can have a negative effect. Here authors of the research explain more.
This week is World Glaucoma Week, an annual collaborative project between the World Glaucoma Association and the World Glaucoma Patient Association, which aims to highlight the dangers of glaucoma blindness, alerting people to the need for regular eye checks, including optic nerve checks. Here, Luca Rossetti, Section editor of BMC Ophthalmology’s dedicated Glaucoma section discusses the dangers of this silent enemy.
Today BMC Public Health publishes research investigating the factors that influence UK 11-year-olds to start drinking alcohol. In this blog, originally posted on The Conversation blog, co-author Yvonne Kelly explains more about the work.
Chikungunya, a viral disease transmitted by infected mosquitoes, could have been misdiagnosed as dengue because both have similar symptoms, according to a study published in BMC Infectious Diseases. Anne explains more here.
Rethinking reporting guidelines • Mathematical model of planarian stem cells • Lack of competition influences sperm size in peeper frogs • Predicting how DNA state influences gene expression • Compression of metagenomic data • Alcohol risks vary based on community wealth status • Measuring the potential for pandemic spread through airports