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BMC Medicine - the flagship medical journal of the BMC series - publishes original research articles, commentaries and reviews in all areas of medical science and clinical practice. To be appropriate for BMC Medicine , articles need to be of outstanding quality, broad interest and special importance. BMC Medicine (ISSN 1741-7015) is indexed/tracked/covered by PubMed, MEDLINE, BIOSIS, CAS, EMBASE, Scopus, Current Contents, Thomson Reuters (ISI) and Google Scholar.
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BMC Medicine 2009, 7 :71
Goadsby and Sprenger explore the complex pathogenesis of migraine, considering that while currently available treatment is far from optimal, work on a number of potential therapeutic targets holds promise for improved patient care in the near future.
BMC Medicine 2009, 7 :70
High-dose oral ascorbic acid supplementation for one year is safe but fails to improve motor nerve conduction velocity of the median nerve in young Charcot-Marie-Tooth type 1A patients.
BMC Medicine 2009, 7 :69
Testing for human papillomavirus from the age of 25 followed by triage with Pap smears every three years is likely to prove more cost-effective for prevention of cervical cancer than some screening strategies currently in place.
BMC Medicine 2009, 7 :68
Signal Transducer and Activator of Transcription 1 (STAT1) regulates energy metabolic pathways in tumors, predominantly via glycolytic genes, suggesting a role for STAT1 as a transcriptional modulator of genes involved in "Warburg effect" cancer cell energy production.
BMC Medicine 2009, 7 :67
HIV-infected children successfully adhere to the prophylactic medication for tuberculosis isoniazid regardless of whether this is administered daily or three times a week, although an intermittent regimen may prove more cost-effective.
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Migraine pathogenesis and state of pharmacological treatment options Peter J Goadsby, Till Sprenger BMC Medicine 2009, 7 :71 (16 [Abstract ] [Provisional PDF ] [PubMed ] [Related articles ]
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Oral high dose ascorbic acid treatment for one year in young CMT1A patients: a randomised, double-blind, placebo-controlled phase II trial Camiel Verhamme, Rob J de Haan, Marinus Vermeulen, Frank Baas, Marianne de Visser, Ivo N van Schaik BMC Medicine 2009, 7 :70 (12 [Abstract ] [Provisional PDF ] [PubMed ] [Related articles ]
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Human papillomavirus testing with Pap triage for cervical cancer prevention in Canada: a cost-effectiveness analysis Shalini L Kulasingam, Raghu Rajan, Yvan St Pierre, C Victoria Atwood, Evan R Myers, Eduardo L Franco BMC Medicine 2009, 7 :69 (9 [Abstract ] [Full text ] [PDF ] [PubMed ] [Related articles ]
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STAT1-dependent expression of energy metabolic pathways links tumour growth and radioresistance to the Warburg effect Sean P Pitroda, Bassam T Wakim, Ravi F Sood, Mara G Beveridge, Michael A Beckett, Dhara M MacDermed, Ralph R Weichselbaum, Nikolai N Khodarev BMC Medicine 2009, 7 :68 (5 [Abstract ] [Full text ] [PDF ] [PubMed ] [Related articles ]
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Adherence to isoniazid prophylaxis among HIV-infected children: a randomized controlled trial comparing two dosing schedules Stanzi M le Roux, Mark F Cotton, Jonathan E Golub, David M le Roux, Lesley Workman, Heather J Zar BMC Medicine 2009, 7 :67 (3 [Abstract ] [Full text ] [PDF ] [PubMed ] [Related articles ]
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Accumulation of neutral lipids in peripheral blood mononuclear cells as a distinctive trait of Alzheimer patients and asymptomatic subjects at risk of disease Alessandra Pani, Antonella Mandas, Giacomo Diaz, Claudia Abete, Pier Luigi Cocco, Fabrizio Angius, Annalisa Brundu, Nico Mu BMC Medicine 2009, 7 :66 (2 [Abstract ] [Full text ] [PDF ] [PubMed ] [Related articles ]
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Development of lower limb range of motion from early childhood to adolescence in cerebral palsy: a population-based study Eva Nordmark, Gunnar H BMC Medicine 2009, 7 :65 (28 [Abstract ] [Full text ] [PDF ] [PubMed ] [Related articles ]
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Transforming medical professionalism to fit changing health needs Thomas Plochg, Niek S Klazinga, Barbara Starfield BMC Medicine 2009, 7 :64 (26 [Abstract ] [Full text ] [PDF ] [PubMed ] [Related articles ]
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Defective oxytocin function: a clue to understanding the cause of autism? Fiorella Gurrieri, Giovanni Neri BMC Medicine 2009, 7 :63 (22 [Abstract ] [Full text ] [PDF ] [PubMed ] [Related articles ]
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Genomic and epigenetic evidence for oxytocin receptor deficiency in autism Simon G Gregory, Jessica J Connelly, Aaron J Towers, Jessica Johnson, Dhani Biscocho, Christina A Markunas, Carla Lintas, Ruth K Abramson, Harry H Wright, Peter Ellis, Cordelia F Langford, Gordon Worley, G Robert Delong, Susan K Murphy, Michael L Cuccaro, Antonello Persico, Margaret A Pericak-Vance BMC Medicine 2009, 7 :62 (22 [Abstract ] [Full text ] [PDF ] [PubMed ] [Related articles ]
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Phylogeographic reconstruction of a bacterial species with high levels of lateral gene transfer Talima Pearson, Philip Giffard, Stephen Beckstrom-Sternberg, Raymond Auerbach, Heidie Hornstra, Apichai Tuanyok, Erin P Price, Mindy B Glass, Benjamin Leadem, James S Beckstrom-Sternberg, Gerard J Allan, Jeffrey T Foster, David M Wagner, Richard T Okinaka, Siew Hoon Sim, Ofori Pearson, Zaining Wu, Jean Chang, Rajinder Kaul, Alex R Hoffmaster, Thomas S Brettin, Richard A Robison, Mark Mayo, Jay E Gee, Patrick Tan, Bart J Currie, Paul Keim BMC Biology 2009, 7 :78 (18 [Abstract ] [Provisional PDF ] [PubMed ] [Related articles ]
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