A Commentary published today in Systematic Reviews describes the rationale of an Advisory Group assembled by The Alliance for Health Policy and Systems Research, housed within the World Health Organization. In this Q&A, I ask co-author Etienne V. Langlois more about the group including what they have achieved so far and what they plan to do next.
Open medicine digest explores recent research published elsewhere across open access medicine. Here we take a look at the highlights from the past couple of weeks.
Clinical insights take a look at some of the recent clinical research published across BioMed Central’s journals.
To celebrate the fifth anniversary of our journal, Stem Cell Research & Therapy, I asked two editorial board members, Duncan J Stewart from the Ottawa Hospital Research Institute and Gianvito Martino from San Raffaele Hospital, about the advancements, challenges and future developments of research in this field.
The use of virtual reality to improve limb use after stroke has been investigated in recent work published in the Journal of NeuroEngineering and Rehabilitation. Here, Judith Deutsch, Associate Editor for the journal, and Gerry Fluet from Rutgers University, explain more about this technique.
What can parents do if they are concerned about their child becoming obese? If they want to help them lose weight or, indeed, prevent them becoming overweight in the first place? Here, the ISRCTN registry looks at some of the relevant research in order to try and find some answers.
Research published in Genome Medicine has investigated the link between the microbiome and colorectal cancer. Two of the authors, Ran Blekhman and Dan Knights, reveal more about their findings in this Q+A.