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We are pleased to share with you our April content update, featuring journal news, top articles and our most recent table of contents.
Featured Collection The human microbiome is responsible for a host of functions that influence the body in both health and disease, and there is growing consensus that the microbiome is a major player in the gut-brain axis, treatment outcomes and immune responses. In this article collection, guest edited by Omry Koren, we explore some of the most recent and exciting findings in microbiome research.
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| Research published in BMC Medicine looks at how the age of cancer risk is lower for those that are smokers compared to non-smokers. Co-author Jose M. Ordonez-Mena explains more here. |
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| Recently, Boston welcomed over 9,000 delegates from all over the world, attending ENDO 2016. Here, the BMC Medicine team highlight some of the most innovative developments discussed at the meeting. |
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Research | Pubertal development and prostate cancer risk: Mendelian randomization study in a population-based cohort | | Carolina Bonilla, Sarah J. Lewis, Richard M. Martin, Jenny L. Donovan, Freddie C. Hamdy, David E. Neal, Rosalind Eeles, Doug Easton, Zsofia Kote-Jarai, Ali Amin Al Olama, Sara Benlloch, Kenneth Muir, Graham G. Giles, Fredrik Wiklund, Henrik Gronberg and Christopher A. Haiman | | BMC Medicine 2016 14:66 |
| Quantification of the smoking-associated cancer risk with rate advancement periods: meta-analysis of individual participant data from cohorts of the CHANCES consortium | | José Manuel Ordóñez-Mena, Ben Schöttker, Ute Mons, Mazda Jenab, Heinz Freisling, Bas Bueno-de-Mesquita, Mark G. O'Doherty, Angela Scott, Frank Kee, Bruno H. Stricker, Albert Hofman, Catherine E. de Keyser, Rikje Ruiter, Stefan Söderberg, Pekka Jousilahti and Kari Kuulasmaa | | BMC Medicine 2016 14:62 |
| Profiling persistent tubercule bacilli from patient sputa during therapy predicts early drug efficacy | | Isobella Honeyborne, Timothy D. McHugh, Iitu Kuittinen, Anna Cichonska, Dimitrios Evangelopoulos, Katharina Ronacher, Paul D. van Helden, Stephen H. Gillespie, Delmiro Fernandez-Reyes, Gerhard Walzl, Juho Rousu, Philip D. Butcher and Simon J. Waddell | | BMC Medicine 2016 14:68 |
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