July 19, 2016

BMC Medicine monthly contents – June 2016

 
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Dear Dr Wirawan,

We are pleased to share with you our June content update, featuring journal news, top articles and our most recent table of contents.


From the BMC Medicine blog

CARE Plus: improving quality of life for multimorbidity patients in socioeconomic deprivation
CARE Plus: improving quality of life for multimorbidity patients in socioeconomic deprivation

BMC Medicine publishes an article investigating a system intervention to improve the quality of life for patients with multiple complex problems in Scotland. This study, known as CARE Plus, also looks at the cost-effectiveness of the intervention and finds some promising results. Co-author Stewart Mercer explains more here.


Examining the contribution of hormones and inflammation to preterm birth
Examining the contribution of hormones and inflammation to preterm birth

Here, Dr David MacIntyre and Prof Phillip Bennett, co-authors of an article published in BMC Medicine, explain more about their research on modeling hormonal and inflammatory contributions to preterm and term labor.


Fabulous Pacific coast and the latest digestive diseases research: BMC Medicine joins DDW2016
Fabulous Pacific coast and the latest digestive diseases research: BMC Medicine joins DDW2016

BMC Medicine recently joined Digestive Disease Week 2016 (DDW2016) in San Diego. Here we report some of the highlights from the world's largest gastrointestinal and hepatology gathering.



Table of Contents

Commentary

Probiotics and microbiota composition

How important is gametocyte clearance after malaria therapy?

Real-world data in the United Kingdom: opportunities and challenges

Guideline

RAMESES II reporting standards for realist evaluations

Minireview

The gut microbiome in human immunodeficiency virus infection

Opinion

Antibiotic use during pregnancy: how bad is it?

Beyond viral suppression of HIV – the new quality of life frontier

Question and Answer

Understanding Zika virus pathogenesis: an interview with Catherine Spong

Research

Impact of interventions to improve the quality of peer review of biomedical journals: a systematic review and meta-analysis

Modeling hormonal and inflammatory contributions to preterm and term labor using uterine temporal transcriptomics

Modifiable causes of premature death in middle-age in Western Europe: results from the EPIC cohort study

Maternal antenatal multiple micronutrient supplementation for long-term health benefits in children: a systematic review and meta-analysis

The CARE Plus study – a whole-system intervention to improve quality of life of primary care patients with multimorbidity in areas of high socioeconomic deprivation: exploratory cluster randomised controlled trial and cost-utility analysis

Modeling the spread of polio in an IPV-vaccinated population: lessons learned from the 2013 silent outbreak in southern Israel

No effects of oral vitamin D supplementation on non-alcoholic fatty liver disease in patients with type 2 diabetes: a randomized, double-blind, placebo-controlled trial

Fast and accurate dynamic estimation of field effectiveness of meningococcal vaccines

Review

Potential of immunomodulatory agents as adjunct host-directed therapies for multidrug-resistant tuberculosis


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