Enhancing the recruitment of minorities in clinical trials
Racial and ethnic minorities are often underrepresented in clinical trials, threatening the generalizability of results. Here, authors of a recent… Read more »
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Highlights of the BMC Series – March 2021
Why do those bagels smell so good? - Vaccinated mother gives birth to baby with SARS-CoV-2 antibodies - The influence of politics on healthcare… Read more »
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International representation in Neurology journals: no improvement in over a decade
The underrepresentation of authors and editorial members from developing countries has been documented across several specialty… Read more »
World Kidney Day 2021: The Goal of Life Participation
11 March 2021 marks World Kidney Day, BMC Nephrology Blog Editor Dr. Su Thavarajah tells us more about this year's theme and how… Read more »
Highlights of the BMC Series – February 2021
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Highlights of the BMC Series – January 2021
Predicting measles outbreaks - Repairing damaged heart tissue - Comparing risk predictions for newborns - Listening to older… Read more »
Saving the Catheter
Last Week in BMC Nephrology, an article by Richtrova et al. discusses whether recombinant tissue plasminogen activator (rt-PA) is… Read more »
Highlights of the BMC Series – December 2020
Long Covid - Maternal Cannabis Use - Pesticide Poisoning - Psychotherapy and Refugees - Dying Patient Law
Revisiting the management of term breech presentation: overcoming controversy
Background Recent publications have focused excessively on the mode of delivery. To go beyond the sole question of the mode of… Read more »
Highlights from the BMC Series – November 2020
The micropolitics of healthcare, primary care in the midst of the opioid epidemic, contaminated wooly mammoth DNA, and more.