A new review published in Burns & Trauma has suggested skin appendage-derived stem cells can play a potential role in wound repair. Here author Sha Huang tells us more about these findings.
Why do clinical trials still rely on paper-based data entry methods when there are so many technologies available to improve trial efficiency? New research published today in Trials provides a case study of integrating technology into trial design for a complex intervention and here, co-authors Cheney Drew and Vincent Poile discuss its impact on efficiency and what they see the future to hold for trial management.
With different formulae available to estimate renal function, a major mortality factor, it’s important that clinicians know which is best to use. A recently published study in BMC Medicine compares three of the formulae used to predict renal function head to head. Here author João Pedro Ferreira tells us about the study and gives us a rundown of the formulae.
To mark World COPD Day we invited Dr. Alexandru Corlateanu to give us a background on chronic obstructive pulmonary disease and how it can be managed. He also tells us about World COPD Day and what its aims are.
There is an argument on whether spinal manipulation carries enough benefits to justify the potential risk of causing a stroke and whether the manipulation itself is the cause of the stroke. To give us a background on this issue we invited Professor Charlotte Leboeuf-Yde to discuss two articles recently published in Chiropractic & Manual Therapies that fall on either side of this debate.
Tumor heterogeneity is observed at many levels: from cancer subclones in primary tumor with distinct characteristics to differences between primary and metastatic tumors in the same individual. As it affects treatment response, it is one of the key challenges in effective cancer management in the clinical practice. Here, co-authors of an article published today in BMC Medicine discuss their study of kidney cancer patients.
World Diabetes Day was set up to raise awareness of the health threats to people with diabetes mellitus. The theme this year is Eyes on Diabetes, focusing on the importance of screening for type 2 diabetes and screening for complications caused by all types of diabetes. To mark the occasion, ISRCTN looks at just some of the recent research to help prevent the development of diabetes and the complications of diabetes.
The 12th November is World Pneumonia Day and to mark the occasion we invited Professor Ben Marais, University of Sydney, to talk about the lack of focus on childhood tuberculosis (TB) in national TB control programs and what is being done to change this. He also highlights a new series on childhood tuberculosis that is soon to be published in Pneumonia.
November 14 is World Diabetes Day, and the aim of this years campaign is to promote the importance of screening to ensure early diagnosis of type 2 diabetes and treatment to reduce the risk of serious complications. Why not test your knowledge about the disease in our World Diabetes Day quiz?
Since its launch in July this year, BMC Medicine’s article collection on Translational Oncology article collection has attracted interesting research articles. Here, we present a brief overview of the most recent publications on adoptive immunotherapy for bladder cancer, tumor-associated macrophages in classical Hodgkin lymphoma, correlating tumor mutation load with immunotherapy outcomes and spatial transcriptome analysis of glioblastoma.