In this guest post, Natalie Carter, Head of Research Liaison and Evaluation at Arthritis Research UK, looks at the findings of a new article published today in Arthritis Research &Therapy and tells us more about the latest developments in rheumatoid arthritis research. Rheumatoid arthritis is an autoimmune disease that affects around 400,000 people in the… Read more »
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In 1907, Charles Louis Alphonse Laveran was awarded the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine. It was awarded for his discovery that it was possible to identify the parasites that cause infectious diseases – such as malaria – in the blood. Since then, the diagnosis of malaria has proved challenging and continues to rely heavily… Read more »
Today is World Malaria Day – a day when we can look back with pride on the progress research has made towards eliminating a disease that has been plaguing humankind for millennia. But it’s certainly not a day for resting on our laurels – there’s still much we need to do and new obstacles, such as drug… Read more »
As the Assisted Dying Bill goes through UK Parliament, a key proposed safeguard is that a patient must have the mental capacity to make the decision to end their life. Dr Annabel Price works with terminally ill patients and is an author of an analysis of evidence presented to the Commission for Assisted Dying, which… Read more »
Thursday 10 April saw the publication of the Cochrane systematic review on oseltamivir and zanamivir, or Tamiflu (Roche) and Relenza (GlaxoSmithKline) to give them their better-known trade names. In short, the review found that Tamiflu doesn’t work quite as well as we thought; a finding that is the culmination of a four-and-a-half year battle for… Read more »
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The new journal Borderline Personality Disorder and Emotion Dysregulation (BPDED) launches today. In this guest blog, Dr Perry Hoffman, President of the NEA.BPD, tells us about borderline personality disorder and the impact this new journal can have, not just for researchers but for patients and their families. Borderline personality disorder (BPD) is a disorder that… Read more »
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When you think of an animal with a deadly bite, what comes to mind? A lion, a great white shark or possibly a crocodile. True, these animals can certainly take a large chunk out of you but, in the whole scheme of things, they have nothing on the deadliest biters: small arthropods such as mosquitoes,… Read more »
Rabies is a reliable killer – the only known infection with a near 100% fatality rate. That is until 2004 when a pediatrician in Milwaukee, USA, tried an experimental protocol that saved the life of 15-year-old Jeanna Geise. Dr Willoughby’s treatment, published here, was to induce a coma to protect her brain from the disease,… Read more »
It has been over a decade since the launch of the first major open access (OA) journals by BioMed Central and PLoS, but controversies still surround the field. Many of these concern the legitimacy of some of the many open access journals that are now available. Of these, a subset of OA journals have collectively… Read more »
Sir Ravinder Maini and Sir Professor Marc Feldmann were last week awarded a prestigious 2014 Canada Gairdner International Award for their discovery of anti-tumor necrosis factor (TNF) therapy for the treatment of rheumatoid arthritis and other inflammatory diseases. Rheumatoid arthritis is a common, chronic, painful and disabling autoimmune disease that affects over 21 million… Read more »