Tropical Diseases, Travel Medicine and Vaccines recently published its first articles and in this Q+A, we asked co-author of one of the publications, Ibrahim Shady, more about their research into traveler health clinic visits.
Recent results published in BMC Medicine provide insights into prostate cancer risk for men of different ethnicities. Here, we explore the implications of these findings for prostate cancer screening, and take a look at the public response to the research.
Cases of lung cancer in China are rising, but why is this? I asked Editors of a new series on lung cancer, Li Yan and Wei Zhang, more about this disease, why its occurrence is increasing in China and the work that is being done to prevent this.
The rise of antimicrobial resistance is one of the biggest challenges of modern times, yet there are still large gaps in public understanding of the issue. Wellcome Trust commissioned a study to find out people’s attitudes to antibiotics and their understanding of resistance. In this post first published on their blog, Kate Arkless Gray discusses the results…
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New research published in BMC Medicine shows that a gene expression signature associated with phosphorylated STAT3 is linked to trastuzumab resistance in patients with HER2-positive breast cancer. Here, we talk to study author Amir Sonnenblick about the implications of their findings.
