On Monday 28 July BioMed Central launched Journal of Foot and Ankle Research, a new open access journal and the official journal of the Australasian Podiatry Council and the Society of Chiropodists and Podiatrists (UK). Journal of Foot and Ankle Research covers a wide range of clinical subject areas, as well the broad areas of… Read more »
In new evidence presented to a House of Lords committee in July, the UK government has warned that 50 million people could die as a result of failing to act against a possible global flu pandemic. Increased globalisation and changes in lifestyles were blamed for giving rise to new infections and allowing them to quickly… Read more »
In a recently published research article in Trials, Dr Floriani and colleagues assess the prevalence of interim analyses in 150 cancer randomized controlled trials and conclude that there is still insufficient attention paid to the implementation of this statistical approach for data monitoring. Interim analyses are known to play an important role in balancing between… Read more »
Scandinavian Journal of Trauma, Resuscitation and Emergency Medicine (SJTREM) has recently moved to BioMed Central’s open access publishing platform. Editor-in-Chief Hans Morten Lossius is excited by the move which brings the journal to a wide global audience allowing the rapid dissemination of research in the field. SJTREM is the official journal of the Scandinavian Networking… Read more »
The 2007 Ikemi Award was presented to Prof. Tamaki Matsumoto at the 49th annual meeting of the Japanese Society of Psychosomatic Medicine, held at the Sapporo Convention Center on 12th June 2008. Prof. Matsumoto (Department of Health Science, Shitennoji University, Osaka) won the award for her article below, published in BioPsychoSocial Medicine: Research Altered autonomic… Read more »
The revised 2008 Surviving Sepsis Campaign guidelines – recommendations compiled by 55 intensive care unit experts and 16 scientific societies – have recently been published online. In a new commentary for Critical Care, Editor-in-Chief Professor Jean-Louis Vincent explains their importance to the field of intensive care and emergency medicine. The Surviving Sepsis Campaign is a… Read more »