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Director for Scholarly Communication at Microsoft Research, Alex Wade, reflects on our recently presented Open Data Award and the changes currently afoot in scientific publishing and data sharing. |
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Examining the funding of Alzheimer's disease |
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In an editorial published in Alzheimer's Research & Therapy, two of the journal's Editors-in-Chief examine the current funding available for research into Alzheimer's disease, and call for more investment to support the fight against this debilitating illness. |
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Systematic Reviews: Increasing transparency and innovation |
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Editors-in-Chief: David Moher, Paul Shekelle and Lesley Stewart
A new journal encompassing all aspects of the design, conduct and reporting of systematic reviews in healthcare, Systematic Reviews, is now accepting submissions. |
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Celebrating Stem Cell Research & Therapy |
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To mark Stem Cell Research & Therapy's first anniversary, the journal has published an editorial from the Editors-in-Chief selecting some highlights from its first year. The editorial is included in a special printed edition, which will be available from the BioMed Central stand, booth #908, at the ISSCR meeting in June. |
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On the importance of case reporting |
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Journal of Medical Case Reports launches its first thematic series on the importance of case reporting across all fields of medicine, edited by Editor-in-Chief Professor Michael Kidd. The aim of the series is to highlight the useful aspects of case reports and encourage doctors everywhere to continue case reporting. All articles in the series are available here. |
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| New supplements |
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• Stem cell thematic series
BMC Medicine is seeking submissions of original research offering novel translational and clinical insights into stem cell therapies, to be presented as part of an ongoing stem cell series. To kick-start the series, three specially commissioned articles for BMC Medicine highlight some of the most important and topical issues in clinical stem cell research.
• WHO assessments of vaccine cost effectiveness models Raymond Hutubessy and colleagues from the World Health Organization (WHO) have published a series of three articles for BMC Medicine that aim to make decision makers more aware of the intricacies of different types of cost effectiveness models for vaccination programmes, and to encourage modelers to share their expertise. |
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A case of craniofacial injury caused by a car sunshade following lateral airbag deployment due to a collision highlights the potential risk to motorists and suggests a new, safer sunshade design is required. |
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Hypoxia mobilises VSEL stem cells in vivo
Respiratory Research 2011, 12:63
Brief hypoxia in mice promotes the mobilization of very small embryonic-like (VSEL) stem cells from the bone marrow to peripheral blood by activating diverse transcriptional programs coordinated by a number of key genes. |
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Hydrogen treatment could provide neuroprotection
Medical Gas Research 2011, 1:7
Hydrogen treatment could provide neuroprotection. Inhaled hydrogen could be used as an effective and inexpensive treatment to reduce neurosurgery-induced brain edema and tissue injury, as displayed in adult male Sprague–Dawley rats. |
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Morphological evolution of externally-shelled cephalopods during the most intense phase of the “Devonian Nekton Revolution” in the Early and early Middle Devonian
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