There are less than 2 weeks to submit your entries to the 5th annual BMC Ecology Image Competition! We’ve already received many terrific images from around the world, so be sure to send in your entries by Wednesday 31st May to be in with a chance of winning. We are also delighted to announce the… Read more »
With smart phones constantly at our finger tips, apps that promote and support health related behavioral changes, such as reducing alcohol intake, are a popular way for people to work towards a healthier lifestyle. But are these apps actually effective? This blog reports findings from a study, published today in BMC Public Health, of the Drinkaware: Track and Calculate Units app which is specifically designed to help people wanting to monitor and cut down on their drinking.
In many spider species, males provide gifts to females to encourage them to mate. Usually these gifts are food, providing an obvious nutritional benefit to females. However in the South American spider Paratrechalea ornata, male gifts are mostly worthless, with no nutritional value. In this guest blog Maria Albo discusses her new research, published today in BMC Evolutionary Biology, investigating how mating behaviour is affected when males come bearing false gifts.
International Nurses Day marks the anniversary of the birth of Florence Nightingale. Known as the ‘Lady with the Lamp,’ and considered as the founder of modern nursing, she still stands as an example of the importance of the profession today.
On this day we celebrate the hard work and contributions of our nurses by exploring some of their daily challenges and what can be done to help. We delve into a few articles recently published in BMC Nursing, BMC Obesity, and BMC Research Notes to better understand the concerns at hand.
BMC Medical Informatics and Decision Making attended Informatics for Health 2017 in Manchester at the end of April. Combining Medical Informatics Europe 2017 (from the European Federation for Medical Informatics) with the Farr Institute International Conference 2017, the congress provided a platform for talks and sessions covering a wide range of topics in health informatics from the use of linked data in health research to information technology from the patient perspective. Here we look back at some of the highlights.
Here, the authors of an article published recently in BMC Infectious Diseases talk about their model of Zika transmission in Texas, which aims to help public health officials make informed decisions and assess epidemic risk.
Can an increase in fuel excise taxation persuade people to use their cars less, and lose weight in the process? This was the question investigated by an article in BMC Public Health, which the authors talk about in this blog.
Sports and recreation related traumatic brain injuries are a serious public health concern. Here, co-authors Trevor Barker and Gaytri Barker tell us more about their research, recently published in BMC Psychology, which examines neurocognitive changes following concussion