Respiratory diseases are one of the major chronic diseases and considered by the World Health Organization (WHO) to cause 60% of mortality worldwide.… Read more »
To highlight our 10 year anniversary this week, the editors at BMC Medicine have been discussing the top 10 published articles based on their accesses,… Read more »
The release of the 5th edition of the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (DSM-5) by the American Psychiatric Association in May 2013 has… Read more »
The World Health Organization estimates that at least 2.8 million adults die each year due to being overweight or obese. This is has resulted in a large… Read more »
The Division of Lung Diseases of the National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute funds a significant amount of research on the causes, diagnosis, prevention and… Read more »
Common psychiatric and neurodegenerative disorders are mainly treated using medications that modify the activity of monoamine neurotransmitter systems. New… Read more »
Dementia is becoming a serious problem due to growth in the ageing population, and in the UK 820,000 people have the disease with Alzheimer’s disease being… Read more »
The number of interventional cardiology technologies is growing, and these devices will require clinical implementation, improved performance and standardized… Read more »
Respiratory medicine is a main area of acute general medicine and for research funding agencies, which invest in large clinical trials and ground-breaking… Read more »
Cholesterol-lowering drugs such as statins are the first line of treatment for hypercholesterolemia in the prevention of cardiovascular diseases but their side… Read more »