Childhood trauma in patients with severe mental disorders linked to shorter telomeres
Research published today in the open access Nature journal Translational Psychiatry, found patients with severe mental disorders who had experienced… Read more »
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BMC Medicine at the 6th International Conference on Nutrition & Growth (N&G)
This year’s N&G conference took place in sunny Valencia, Spain. Attended by almost 1700 delegates from 92 countries, a number of stimulating… Read more »
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What does the data tell us about trends in workplace homicides?
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Carbon black nanoparticles are manufactured for use in rubber products, as a color pigment in plastics, paint and ink and used to… Read more »
The song and dance of mating in Aedes aegypti mosquitoes
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Kidney Cancer Awareness Month: Highlighting our open access kidney cancer research
To mark Kidney Cancer Awareness month and to help raise awareness of kidney cancer, our Editors across a number of open access… Read more »
How can advances in computerized decision support systems best be used to improve antimicrobial stewardship?
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Gut microbiome patterns associated with post-surgery complication risk
As we learn more about the microbiome through next generation sequencing (NGS) technologies, the more we become aware of the… Read more »
Using real-time modeling to inform the response to a diphtheria outbreak
In a new article published in BMC Medicine, Dr Flavio Finger and Dr Adam Kucharski describe how their forecasts helped to inform… Read more »
Spotlight on e-health and m-health
The impact of digital technology on healthcare is explored in a Special Issue of BioMedical Engineering Online, introduced by… Read more »