Zika: Q+A with the infectious disease expert
This blog (first published on the Wellcome Trust blog under a Creative Commons CC BY 4.0 licence) asks Laura Rodrigues about her role studying mothers and babies affected by the Zika virus in Brazil.
This blog (first published on the Wellcome Trust blog under a Creative Commons CC BY 4.0 licence) asks Laura Rodrigues about her role studying mothers and babies affected by the Zika virus in Brazil.
Jennifer McGregor talks here about gelatin and its new use as a health food. Can it help with protecting joints, improving mood and heart health? Read on to find out more.
Guest blogger Julie Potyraj discusses how we can treat the health of the population as a whole, by addressing individual health at the same time.
In the early days of the AIDS epidemic, most schools taught absolutely nothing about AIDS. The few teaching guides available focused on information (‘the T-cell is like the general of an army, protecting your body from invaders’). Curricula didn’t have behavioral objectives. We weren’t trying to prevent AIDS in teens because teens weren’t getting it…. Read more »
Publishing today in Infectious Diseases of Poverty and just in time for World Tuberculosis Day, researchers investigate the expenses caused by undergoing tuberculosis diagnosis in low- and middle-income countries. Co-authors Rachel Anderson and Luis Cuevas explain more in this blog.
This blog (first published on the Wellcome Trust blog under a Creative Commons CC BY 4.0 licence) asks Madeleine Thomson about how information about the climate can improve health decision making.
Genes & Nutrition recently made the decision to transition to open access and today the journal launches its first articles with BioMed Central. So how has this field progressed over the years, and what does the journal hope to achieve in the future? We asked two of the Editors-in-Chief for their thoughts.
Dr Praveenkumar Aivalli blogs here about his experiences on his first research project funded by the World Health Organization in South Indian State. If you’re starting your first research project in a poor resource setting you may relate to this.
Tropical Medicine and Health published its first articles with BioMed Central today, after choosing to partner with us last year. To celebrate this, and in light of recent emerging information regarding Zika virus, co-author of one of the launch articles explains more about the potential to develop a Zika vaccine.
Research published recently in International Journal of Behavioral Nutrition and Physical Activity looked at the link between lower levels of physical activity and multimorbidity. Here, co-author Nafeesa Dhalwani answers our questions.