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BMC Proceedings has published the Proceedings of the 2007 Disease Surveillance Workshop. Disease Surveillance: Role of Public Health Informatics. Bangkok, Thailand, 11-12 September 2007.
BMC Bioinformatics has published the Proceedings of the BioNLP 08 ACL Workshop: Themes in biomedical language processing. Columbus, OH, USA, 19 June 2008.
BMC Health Services Research has published the abstracts from the 24th Patient Classification Systems International (PCSI) Working Conference. Lisbon, Portugal, 8-11 October 2008.
New from Journal of Biology
Ross Hardison in a minireview on a paper in BMC Biology explains how platypus genomics changes our view of globin gene evolution, and Daniel Pomp and Karen Mohlke discuss the contribution of a paper published in BMC Genetics to the quest for genes predisposing to obesity.
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Acupuncture relieves muscle pain Chinese Medicine 2008, 3:14
Tender point acupuncture significantly relieves exercise-induced delayed onset muscle soreness.
Expression profiling of human tissues BMC Biology 2008, 6:49
The biological function of ubiquitously-expressed house-keeping and tissue-specific genes is consistent with tissue origin and tissue signature networks promise to be a rich source of targets for disease treatment and diagnosis.
A 19-year-old woman presenting with fever and inflammation of the tongue contracted herpes simplex virus progressing to fulminant hepatitis and death following a recent tongue piercing.
