This is a guest blog by Bas ter Braak, currently a PhD candidate at the Leiden Academic Center for Drug Research, and co-author on an article published in Breast Cancer Research. Here he discusses his research on insulin glargine and tumor growth.
Dr Carol Hodgson, Senior Research Fellow at Australian and New Zealand Intensive Care Research Centre, discusses muscle weakness in the critically ill.
To mark the launch of the journal ‘Disaster Military and Medicine’, Dr. Eyal Zimlichman, Editor-in-Chief discusses the need for such a journal.
A research article published in BMC Medicine investigates the length of time taken to withdraw dangerous drugs from the market. In this guest blog, authors Igho Onakpoya, Carl Heneghan and Jeffrey Aronson from University of Oxford discuss delays in withdrawing drugs suspected of causing deaths and how these delays could be reduced.
Data from the FEAST trial published today in BMC Medicine suggest that severe anemia is common in African children with febrile illness, and adherence to current transfusion guidelines is poor. In this guest blog, Maitland discusses anemia in Africa, the WHO guidelines, and how fluid boluses cause harm. Anemia in Africa In sub-Saharan Africa, severe… Read more »