MRI scans of children who have had chemotherapy can detect early changes in their hearts finds research in biomed Central's open access journal Journal of Cardiovascular Magnetic Resonance.
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A protein profile of people with restless leg syndrome (RLS), identifies factors behind disrupted sleep, cardiovascular dysfunction and pain finds research in BioMed Central's open access journal Fluids and Barriers of th ...
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The way that the visual centers of men and women's brains works is different, finds new research published in BioMed Central's open access journal Biology of Sex Differences. Men have greater sensitivity to fine detail and ra ...
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Given the option, many women with symptoms of urinary tract infections are choosing to avoid antibiotics and give their bodies a chance to heal naturally, finds research in BioMed Central's open access journal BMC Family Pr ...
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There is a lack of evidence regarding the effectiveness of technologies used to reduce arsenic contamination finds research in BioMed Central's open access journal Environmental Evidence. More studies assessing the techno ...
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Human foetal stem cell grafts improve both motor and sensory functions in rats suffering from a spinal cord injury, according to research published this week in BioMed Central's open access journal Stem Ce ...
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Alcohol is known to worsen the effects of disease, resulting in longer recovery period after trauma, injury or burns. It is also known to impair the anti-viral immune response, especially in the liver, including response ...
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Loss of muscle mass is not only associated with disease, such as HIV and cancer, but also with the normal aging process. Anabolic steroids are sometimes used to reverse loss of lean muscle tissue but they can have unwanted ...
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Maternal nutrition is important to a developing embryo and to the health of the child later in life. Supplementing the diet with specific vitamins is known to increase health of the foetus for example folic acid (vitamin ...
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While Australia has recently passed legislation to ban logos from cigarette packages and to make plain packaging mandatory, other countries are still considering whether or not to take similar measures. New research published ...
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Women's immune systems age more slowly than men's, suggests research in BioMed Central's open access journal Immunity & Ageing. The slower decline in a woman's immune system may contribute to women living longer than men. ...
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Classroom rosters combined with human-networking theory may give a clearer picture of just how infectious diseases such as influenza can spread through a closed group of people, and even through populations ...
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Mathematicians have developed a powerful tool to quantify the spread and infectiousness of viruses like the pandemic H1N1 flu strain, which can be used together with modern laboratory techniques to help the healthcare system ...
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Imagine a contraceptive that could, with one or two painless 15-minute non-surgical treatments, provide months of protection from pregnancy. And imagine that the equipment needed were already in physical therapists' ...
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Coronary heart disease (CHD) increases with BMI, as well as with age, finds an article published in BioMed Central's open access journal BMC Medicine. The research from the Million Women Study indicates that increased weight ...
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BioMed Central (BMC) is a UK-based for-profit scientific publisher specializing in open access publication. BMC publishes over 180 scientific journals, and describes itself as the first and largest open access science publisher. BMC sister companies publish the Chemistry Central and PhysMath Central journals. The Chairman is Vitek Tracz and the Publisher is Matt Cockerill.
Most titles are open access, including its flagship journals Journal of Biology, Molecular Cancer Malaria Journal, the innovative Journal of Negative Results in BioMedicine and the BMC journal series including the leading titles BMC Biology and BMC Medicine. Others are open access for the research articles portion only, such as Genome Biology, Arthritis Research & Therapy, Breast Cancer Research, andCritical Care. Some review titles, such as Current Opinion in Drug Discovery & Development are entirely subscription based. Open access content is released under the Creative Commons "Attribution" license which grants permission to reuse publications and produce derivative work.
In October 2008, it was announced that BMC, Chemistry Central, and PhysMath Central, had been acquired by Springer Science+Business Media. Previously, since its creation, the company was part of Science Navigation Group, chaired by Vitek Tracz, which also owns The Scientist (a popular science magazine—the daily news section is free access; the remainder is by subscription), Faculty of 1000 (a subscription-only current awareness service highlighting recent biological research), Global DataPoint, People's Archive and, in the past, two other companies which had previously been acquired by Springer, Images.MD (a medical image database) and Current Medicine.
In November 2008, BMC became an official supporting organisation of HIFA2015 (Healthcare Information For All by 2015).
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