It is not easy to change health risk behaviors, and it can be even more difficult for nurses to provide counselling on such delicate issues. In this pilot study recently published in BMC Nursing, the authors develop their Heart Health Whispering intervention, teaching nursing students perspective-taking and clinical empathy.
It’s been over a month since BMC Biomedical Engineering opened for submissions and while we prepare for our content launch, we proudly present an interview with the Section Editor for the ‘medical technologies, robotics and rehabilitation engineering’ section, Prof Alan Lefor. In this interview Prof Alan Lefor, discusses the motivation behind launching BMC Biomedical Engineering, his vision for the journal and some tips for our authors.
New research in BMC Women’s Health highlights the importance of fidelity on health interventions and the difficulties in achieving this in prison settings and with vulnerable groups such as women who have history of incarceration. Here, the authors of the paper share some of these difficulties, the specific skills required of health educators in these settings and their involvement in the SHE project.
A new supplement in BMC Women’s Health describes outcomes of the successful MyBFF@home weight loss intervention among women from low socioeconomic backgrounds in Malaysia.
For the first time, BMC attended the second ToxiLatin conference which was focused on the theme of “Modern Toxicology for Health and Prevention”. Over four days, more than 800 attendees including scientists, postgraduates and graduate students went to talks and over 400 poster presentations.
Recently published research in BMC Public Health finds an association between cumulative sleep deprivation and higher depression scores in young women but not in men, adding new evidence on the role of sleep deprivation in depression risk among young people and the influence of gender. Here to tell us about their findings and how their research took a different approach to previous studies are two of the authors, Annalijn I. Conklin and Christopher G. Richardson.
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Social insect colonies consist of castes with different roles, each with their specialized body types and behaviors. New research published in BMC Zoology finds that in army ants, the behaviorally limited soldiers also have proportionally smaller brains than workers, supporting the idea of evolution favoring reduced brain size in castes with limited behavioral demands.
A new study, published in BMC Evolutionary Biology, investigates the population genetic structure and evolutionary history of the threatened, bamboo-eating Bale monkeys inhabiting the continuous forest of the Bale Mountains and fragmented forests of the Sidamo Highlands in southern Ethiopia. Surprisingly the authors find deep genetic differentiation between the two populations. Here, lead author, Dr. Addisu Mekonnen, tells us about the research and what it means for the conservation of this rare species.
The thematic series on Health Services Research for Opioid Use Disorders offers insight on the current and on-going developments in the strategies used to address and manage the epidemic of opioid use disorders resulting from misuse or abuse of opioids.
In a paper recently published in BMC Evolutionary Biology, an international team of scientists describes how evasion of host immunity by a clonal variant of the potato blight pathogen Phytophthora infestans is associated with variation in gene expression without any apparent underlying genetic changes. We asked the senior authors of the study, Vivianne G.A.A. Vleeshouwers, Hannele Lindqvist-Kreuze and Sophien Kamoun, to tells us about their work.