According to the World Health Organisation, each year malaria causes an estimated 660,000 deaths worldwide, mostly in Africa, where one child dies of malaria each minute. At present, there is no available vaccine, only preventative measures such as mosquito nets and insecticides which have limited use. In a considerable step forward towards the fight against malaria,… Read more »
The AllTrials campaign (explained in a recent interview in our online magazine Biome) and books such as Ben Goldacre’s Bad Pharma have brought the issue of registration and reporting of clinical trials into the spotlight. The push for greater transparency continues to gain momentum. Recent discussions around the European Medicines Agency’s (EMA) proposal to proactively publish the information submitted… Read more »
1Posted on behalf of Ru Bains, assistant editor for Genome Medicine Breast cancer is the most common cancer in women worldwide, and it is the second most common in both sexes combined, affecting over 1.3 million women and over 200,000 men every year. Survival rates vary across the globe and range from 40% in low-income… Read more »
In recognition of Open Access Week (21st- 27th October), we hosted a one hour Twitter-chat to discuss how open access publishing impacts medical research and global health. We were joined in the discussion by a very prominent group of researchers: Agnes Binagwaho, Charles Wiysonge and Prabhat Jha.
As the draft of the new EU Clinical Trials Regulation is poised to enter Triologue discussions, BioMed Central has thrown its support behind the AllTrials initiative and has written to the British Secretary of State for Health, Jeremy Hunt, urging him and the British Government to support amendments to the European regulation on clinical trials… Read more »
1Journal of Intensive Care, a new open access journal published by BioMed Central, has launched today. As the official publication of the Japanese Society of Intensive Care Medicine, this new journal marks a significant development in the field, as it is the first open access English-language journal published on the subject from the Asia and… Read more »
During last year’s Society for Neuroscience (SfN) meeting, the BrightFocus Foundation, (previously the American Health Assistance Foundation,) and The Internationale Stichting Alzheimer Onderzoek held the third in a series of interactive workshops for both junior and senior scientists to discuss the emerging concepts in Alzheimer’s Disease (AD). Due to growing life expectancies, AD, along with… Read more »
Has it started where you are? The unrelenting sniffles that seem to pass in a wave around the office. The feeling of dread at the unmistakable sound of a sneeze on the packed commuter train. As the temperature in more northern parts of the world lowers, flu season approaches. Many of us may have had,… Read more »
In 2014, Genome Medicine will publish a series focusing on Cancer Epigenomics, guest edited by Stephan Beck (University College London). Large-scale sequencing and high-throughput ‘omic studies of a wide variety of cancers have revealed epigenomic variations, including DNA methylation, histone modification and mutations in genes involved in epigenetic regulation. These have provided mechanistic insights into… Read more »