24/09/2018 Alexandros Houssein

BMC Biomedical Engineering recently attended the 2018 TERMIS World Congress, jointly held by the Tissue Engineering and Regenerative Medicine International Society and the Japanese Society for Regenerative Medicine, in Kyoto, Japan. This triennial meeting attracted more than 2,300 speakers and 2,000 delegates from 52 countries, including a wide range of industry and regulatory representatives. Below we offer a glimpse into the meeting’s highlights.

10/09/2018 Rebecca Strong

• Preventing antibiotic-associated diarrhea using probiotics • Men’s suicidality in Norway • Life history traits in a capital breeding pine caterpillar • Palliative care in intensive care units • Emotion regulation and its relation to symptoms of anxiety and depression in children • A new journal in the BMC Series

10/09/2018 Kat Jackson

With heavy drinking on the rise in England and elsewhere, it is important to understand the context for alcohol consumption in order to design appropriate interventions. A new study in BMC Women’s Health looks at the role of alcohol in care relationships for women in the North East of England.

07/09/2018 Ben Ragen & Marina de Tommaso

This year’s Migraine Awareness Week begins on the 2nd of September. It is a great opportunity to increase attention toward this condition. Around 15% of general population suffers from migraine, but it is considered one of the most invalidating disorders.

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06/09/2018 Dr Terhi Honkola

The diversity observed between different present day languages have interested academics for centuries. It has been proposed that this arises partly from dialects that develop in populations that become isolated, which then evolves into a different language over time. Here, Terhi Honkola describes the work conducted by herself and colleagues, now published in BMC Evolutionary Biology, into whether isolation of speaker populations and the local environment really does contribute to language diversity.