Care of vulnerable populations constitutes a sizeable proportion of those in need of medical resources, and there exists considerable disparity between those who can, and can’t afford access to medical services. Although, these issues have always existed, concerns over global health and health inequities have been emphasized over recent years. For instance, few will forget… Read more »
Care of vulnerable populations constitutes a sizeable proportion of those in need of medical resources, and there exists considerable disparity between those who can, and can’t afford access to medical services. Although these issues have always existed, concerns over global health and health inequities have been emphasized over recent years. For instance, few will forget… Read more »
On 7th March, BMC Medicine published results from the European Prospective Investigation into Cancer and Nutrition (EPIC) study, on the association of red meat, processed meat, and poultry consumption with mortality.
Scientific evidence plays an important role in guiding medical laws and policies, but how evidence is represented, and often misrepresented, warrants careful consideration. A new cross-journal thematic series headed by Genome Medicine, Using and abusing evidence in science and health policy, explores the application of evidence in healthcare law and policy in an attempt to… Read more »
Genome Medicine has published the first in a series of articles on “Proteomic applications in medicine”, guest edited by Sabine Bahn and Paul Guest (Cambridge University). The series aims to highlight progress and challenges in using proteomic techniques in order to gain clinical insight into disease establishment, progression, diagnosis and prognosis. Genome Medicine is now… Read more »
Accurate prenatal diagnosis is important to guide pregnancy and birth management, therapeutic strategies, and future family planning, but invasive diagnostic techniques are associated with a risk of miscarriage. Advances in next-generation sequencing have allowed the development of methodologies for non-invasive prenatal diagnosis (NIPD) from cell-free fetal DNA circulating in maternal blood. There has been much… Read more »