Monthly Archives: August 2008

BMC Cancer celebrates 1000th article milestone

BMC Cancer announces a major achievement – the publication of its 1,000th article. BMC Cancer is the second medical journal in the BMC–series to achieve this milestone in 2008, after BMC Public Health, and follows in the footsteps of BMC Bioinformatics and BMC Genomics, which surpassed one thousand publications in 2006 and 2007 respectively. The… Read more »

BMC Medical Research Methodology celebrates 250 publications

BMC Medical Research Methodology has achieved its 250th publication. The journal has grown steadily since its launch in 2001 and publications have doubled in the last three years, a sign of the journal’s increasing reputation among medical methodologists. BMC Medical Research Methodology is the seventh medical journal in the BMC series to reach the milestone… Read more »

Richard Smith's guest blog post: The still small power of medicine

Richard Smith, Editor-in-Chief of Cases Journal writes today on the problems in treating individual patients based on evidence gathered in populations. The post on the Cases Blog, introduces two editorials from Tom Jefferson and Enzo Grossi outlining new ways to address these problems. Click here to read the full post, where Smith illustrates the problem… Read more »