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Highlights of the BMC Series – March 2024
BMC Genomics – Exploring the ageing methylome in the model insect, Nasonia vitripennis Fig.1 Brink et al. Epigenetic changes, based on dynamic DNA methylation patterns, have been consistently associated with aging processes. However, much about aging is currently based on two model organisms, Drosophila and C. elegans, that lack detectable DNA methylation. This study introduces…
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Highlights of the BMC Series – February 2024
© chompoo / stock.adobe.com BMC Pregnancy and Childbirth – Effect of early vitamin D supplementation on the incidence of preeclampsia in primigravid women: a randomised clinical trial in Eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo Preeclampsia (PE) is a hypertensive disorder of pregnancy that affects around 5% of pregnant women globally and it can bring to…
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Highlights of the BMC Series – January 2024
Artwork (silhouette and skeleton) by Alessio Ciaffi BMC Ecology and Evolution – New information on paleopathologies in non-avian theropod dinosaurs: a case study on South American abelisaurids A recent study published in BMC Ecology and Evolution explores the pathology of theropods – bipedal carnivorous dinosaurs – finding evidence of non-injurious pathologies and suggesting that abelisaurids…
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Highlights of the BMC Series – December 2023
BMC Infectious Diseases – Prevalence of covid-19 and long covid in collegiate student athletes from spring 2020 to fall 2021: a retrospective survey Severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2), responsible for COVID-19, has affected over seven hundred million people to date, leading to varied symptoms that can persist for weeks, months, or even years. Long…
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Highlights of the BMC Series – November 2023
BMC Digital Health – A novel telehealth tool using a snack activity to identify autism spectrum disorder © Lori Werhane / Fotolia Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD) is a neurodevelopmental disorder that affects more than one in 100 people worldwide. ASD can be reliably diagnosed by the age of 2 years, but developmental screenings are expensive…
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Highlights of the BMC Series – October 2023
BMC Health Services Research – Understanding the difference, makes the difference: perceptions of Black and Minoritised ethnic occupational therapists on mentoring © BongkarnThanyakij / Getty Images Although mentoring only became popularized over the last two decades of the twentieth century, the history of mentoring can be traced back to Ancient Greece. The word “mentor” originates…
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Highlights of the BMC Series – September 2023
BMC Ecology and Evolution – Ancient mitogenomes reveal a high maternal genetic diversity of Pleistocene woolly rhinoceros in Northern China Fig. 2 Yuan et al. This study brings us back in time to the Middle to Late Pleistocene (about 0.46 − 0.012 million years ago, Ma), when our far away ancestors were living alongside the woolly rhinoceros (Coelodonta antiquitatis),…
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Highlights of the BMC Series – August 2023
BMC Medical Ethics – The missing voices in the conscientious objection debate: British service users’ experiences of conscientious objection to abortion Gayatri Malhotra on Unsplash The 1967 Abortion Act also regulates conscientious objection in the UK, stating that individuals (including healthcare providers) may ‘object’ to participate in an abortion based on religious, moral, philosophical, ethical, or…
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Highlights of the BMC Series – July 2023
BMC Public Health – Reducing sickness absence and stigma due to mental health difficulties: a randomised control treatment trial (RCT) of a low intensity psychological intervention and stigma reduction programme for common mental disorder (Prevail) © Sharne T / peopleimages.com / stock.adobe.com (Symbolbild mit Fotomodell) Common mental health disorders, or CMDs, such as anxiety, depression…
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Highlights of the BMC Series – June 2023
© InsideCreativeHouse / stock.adobe.com BMC Complementary Medicine and Therapies – Effects of laughter yoga on health-related quality of life in cancer patients undergoing chemotherapy: a randomized clinical trial Laughter yoga is a type of complementary therapy which promotes deliberate laughter in combination with yoga breathing practices and yoga stretching poses. Intentional laughter can provide benefits…