New research published today in Genome Medicine uses large-scale DNA sequencing to identify genetic variants that cause developmental delay, a condition that currently goes undiagnosed in a large number of cases. Here to tell us more is author of the research, Dr. Greg Cooper.
An aspect of conflict that is often overlooked is the difficult decisions that healthcare providers need to make on the allocation of medical resources to civilians. In this blog, Dr. Nicholas G. Evans, author of a case study published in Disaster and Military Medicine, discusses the effect of conflict on the allocation of medical resources and its impact on civilians lives, specifically in the context of dialysis treatment in Syria.
Caesarean section rates in excess of recommended thresholds may pose risks to mothers and infants due to non-medically necessary procedures, and rising healthcare costs. Our study published in BMC Medicine shows that a training program for clinicians resulted in very favorable results: better quality of care for mothers and infants, and major cost savings.
Happy International Clinical Trials Day! If you haven’t yet, take our Clinical Trials Day Quiz on clinical trial reporting and then recap here on what’s next for the field.
In celebration of Clinical Trials Day, we invited the CONSORT Group to reflect on what they see the future holding for clinical trial reporting. Here, Larissa Shamseer, on behalf of the CONSORT Group, discusses what key stakeholders could do to support better trial reporting.
Happy International Clinical Trials Day! This year, in celebration of Clinical Trials Day, we’re challenging you with a quiz about clinical trials reporting. Take our quiz, share your results and learn about some of the next big things in clinical trial reporting.
This year’s scientific breast cancer image competition – in partnership with the UK’s largest breast cancer charity, Breast Cancer Now and the leading breast cancer journal, Breast Cancer Research – is well underway but there are still three weeks left to get your entries in. Read on to find out how to enter…
The International Liver Congress is the flagship event of the European Association for the Study of the Liver, which took place last April in Amsterdam. BMC Medicine joined this conference along with around 10,000 international attendees. Here, we share some of the highlights.
Tjibbe Donker writes here about his BMC Medicine study, aiming to help control the spread of antimicrobial resistance between hospitals by comparing the severity and closeness of cases.
Here, Dr Patricia Kissinger talks about Expedited Partner Therapy – providing medicine to a sex partner of someone infected with an STD without the requirement for a clinical examination, in light of a research article recently published in BMC Medicine