The general health benefits of regular exercise are well known and highly recommended, but increasing levels of sports can also mean an increase in the incidence of sports injuries. Therefore, there has been growing interest in sports trauma treatment and prevention, not just in the elite athlete, but also in the ‘weekend warrior’; a term… Read more »
In recognition of Open Access week, Dr Pascal Meier an interventional cardiologist from University College London and Yale Medical School, and Whitney Townsend, the coordinator of the Health Sciences Executive Research Services at University of Michigan, provide their views on the benefits of open access publishing. Dr Pascal Meier “The only thing worse than being… Read more »
A new Current Controlled Trials (CCT) advisory board has been appointed as of October 2012, whom we are looking forward to working with on guiding the future development of our trial registration and related publishing services. Some members have been helping us promote and improve the quality of prospective clinical trial registration for many years:… Read more »
The 6th annual open access week is upon us, and one of the topics of particular interest to BMC Medicine is how open access (OA) publishing has been developing over the last decade. The growth of OA journals is apparent to anyone following scholarly publishing, and much speculation has focused around the citation rates and… Read more »
Despite numerous clinical advances in the field of emergency medicine, patients that survive the intensive care unit (ICU) may experience prolonged psychological distress and a decreased quality of life. Although risk factors for adverse psychological outcomes such as depression, anxiety, and posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD) have been classified, it is not known which factor poses… Read more »
Congratulations from all at BioMed Central to Sir John Gurdon and Shinya Yamanaka, who share the 2012 Nobel prize in physiology or medicine for “the discovery that mature cells can be reprogrammed to become pluripotent.” Once again, stem cells are a hot topic of conversation! In 1962 John Gurdon demonstrated that adult cells retained all… Read more »
Jian Tang and Renata Curty are carrying out a study which examines the academic influence of Journal of Negative Results in BioMedicine. They are doctoral students in the Information Science and Technology Program at Syracuse University, and are interested in the Open Science movement. In this guest blog post they explore the value of publishing… Read more »
Organising a conference feels a bit like the final stages of a PhD: spending months scouring the scientific literature, a gradual increase in stress levels, followed by three manic days on a diet consisting entirely of coffee. As an organizer of the third Beyond the Genome meeting, hosted by Genome Medicine and Genome Biology and… Read more »
Predictive, preventive and personalized medicine (PPPM) is positioned as one of the key components to the future of patient care. As outlined in an editorial The EPMA Journal, which recently moved from Springer to BioMed Central, aims to promote this paradigm change “from delayed interventional ‘disease care’ to PPPM as the medicine of the future”… Read more »
The September issue of Genome Medicine opens with two research highlights discussing recent articles providing novel insights into the pathophysiology and treatment of chronic obstructive pulmonary disease and ulcerative colitis, inflammatory conditions with increasing incidence worldwide. On the topic of chronic obstructive pulmonary disease, Silke Meiners and Oliver Eickelberg discuss a research article published in the… Read more »