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Dr Karen Beemon receives Retrovirology Prize
Dr Karen Beemon, Professor and Chair of the Biology Department, Johns Hopkins University, was recently awarded the third annual Retrovirology Prize. The Retrovirology Prize, awarded annually, recognises an outstanding mid-career retrovirologist aged 45 to 60. The prize, supported by the Ming K. Jeang Foundation, alternates between HIV and non-HIV research.

BMC Research Notes - completing the scientific record
We are pleased to announce a forthcoming addition to the BMC series of journals, BMC Research Notes, due to be launched in early 2008. The goal of BMC Research Notes is to provide a home for short publications, case series, incremental updates to previous work, results of individual experiments and similar material that currently lack a suitable outlet.

World AIDS Day: reflections from Retrovirology's Editor
Coinciding with World AIDS Day on 1st December, the Editor-in-Chief of Retrovirology, Kuan-Teh Jeang published an editorial commenting on the progress made and challenges that still remain, 26 years after AIDS was first recognised.

BMC Health Services Research has published its first supplement comprising abstracts from the 23rd Patient Classifications Systems International (PCSI) Working Conference held in Venice, Italy, 7–10 November 2007.

BMC Bioinformatics has published a supplement of proceedings from the First International Workshop on Text Mining in Bioinformatics (TMBio) 2006 held in Arlington, VA, USA, 10 November 2006.

Phosphatidylserine improves your swing
Journal of the International Society of Sports Nutrition 2007, 4:23
Phosphatidylserine supplementation over a period of six weeks significantly improves performance in golfers, measured as good ball flights from tee-off, and also decreases golfers' perceived stress levels during play.

Beating hospital yeast infection
Critical Care 2007, 11:R126
Selective decontamination of the digestive tract was found to be more effective than single-drug antifungal prophylaxis in reducing yeast colonisation and infection in an analysis of 5,529 critically ill patients.

Reviewers AGREE on osteoarthritis of the knee
Arthritis Research & Therapy 2007, 9:R126 Guidelines for treating knee osteoarthritis were found to lack educational information and differ in treatments addressed when they were reviewed using the Appraisal of Guidelines Research and Evaluation (AGREE) criteria.

"I found this article oddly exciting and disturbing because it involved the re-analysis of a classic paper [...] used to debunk the mercury hypothesis of autism spectrum disorder and the original conclusion is now in doubt." by Isaac Kohane (Harvard Medical School, USA)

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"This study confirms my own clinical experience that, in addition to relieving climacteric symptoms, hormone replacement therapy (HRT) still has a role in improving cardiovascular risk profiles." by Mark Brincat (University of Malta, Malta).

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