| | BMC Medicine monthly contents – August 2016 Dear Dr Wirawan,
We are pleased to share with you our August content update, featuring journal news, top articles and our most recent table of contents.
Featured Collection BMC Medicine will soon be launching a new article collection guest edited by Prof Jasvinder Singh and focused on gout, the most common inflammatory arthritis in adults. This collection was inspired by recent pharmacological breakthroughs and advances in imaging for gout, and we are seeking submissions of research articles that provide important developments in in gout management and therapy.
From the BMC Medicine blog  |
| As a part of the World TB Day 2016 article collection, BMC Medicine published a correspondence article investigating gaps in funding in tuberculosis research. Here, co-author Mishal Khan explains why current priorities need to be reassessed. |
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| Here, Dr Laura McDonald and Dr Sreeram Ramagopalan, co-authors of an article published in BMC Medicine, comment on the implications of the closure of care.data and discuss how similar initiatives using real-world data can work. |
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| Insights in translational cancer research hold the key to the therapeutic progress in oncology. As a new cross-journal article collection on Translational Oncology is launched by BMC Medicine, we reflect on current trends in this field, including tumor heterogeneity, liquid biopsies, and immunotherapy. |
Table of Contents Commentary
Correspondence
Opinion
| Post-mortem assessment in vascular dementia: advances and aspirations | Kirsty E. McAleese, Irina Alafuzoff, Andreas Charidimou, Jacques De Reuck, Lea T. Grinberg, Atticus H. Hainsworth, Tibor Hortobagyi, Paul Ince, Kurt Jellinger, Jing Gao, Raj N. Kalaria, Gabor G. Kovacs, Enikö Kövari, Seth Love, Mara Popovic, Olivia Skrobot…
BMC Medicine 2016, 14:129 |
Research
| Serum levels of mitochondrial inhibitory factor 1 are independently associated with long-term prognosis in coronary artery disease: the GENES Study | Annelise Genoux, Laeticia Lichtenstein, Jean Ferrières, Thibaut Duparc, Vanina Bongard, Paul-Louis Vervueren, Guillaume Combes, Dorota Taraszkiewicz, Meyer Elbaz, Michel Galinier, Bertrand Nassar, Jean-Bernard Ruidavets, Bertrand Perret and Laurent O. Martinez
BMC Medicine 2016, 14:125 |
| The epidemiology, healthcare and societal burden and costs of asthma in the UK and its member nations: analyses of standalone and linked national databases | Mome Mukherjee, Andrew Stoddart, Ramyani P. Gupta, Bright I. Nwaru, Angela Farr, Martin Heaven, Deborah Fitzsimmons, Amrita Bandyopadhyay, Chantelle Aftab, Colin R. Simpson, Ronan A. Lyons, Colin Fischbacher, Christopher Dibben, Michael D. Shields, Ceri J. Phillips, David P. Strachan, Gwyneth A. Davies, Brian McKinstry and Aziz Sheikh
BMC Medicine 2016, 14:113 |
| Development and external validation of a faecal immunochemical test-based prediction model for colorectal cancer detection in symptomatic patients | Joaquín Cubiella, Pablo Vega, María Salve, Marta Díaz-Ondina, Maria Teresa Alves, Enrique Quintero, Victoria Álvarez-Sánchez, Fernando Fernández-Bañares, Jaume Boadas, Rafel Campo, Luis Bujanda, Joan Clofent, Ángel Ferrandez, Leyanira Torrealba, Virginia Piñol, Daniel Rodríguez-Alcalde, Vicent Hernández, Javier Fernández-Seara and on behalf of the COLONPREDICT study investigators
BMC Medicine 2016, 14:128 |
Review
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