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Volume 6;  2008
Commentaries
Birth then and now
Judith Lumley
BMC Med. 2008; 6: 8. Published online 2008 March 18. doi: 10.1186/1741-7015-6-8.
PMCID: PMC2279144
Helping editors, peer reviewers and authors improve the clarity, completeness and transparency of reporting health research
David Moher, Iveta Simera, Kenneth F Schulz, John Hoey, and Douglas G Altman
BMC Med. 2008; 6: 13. Published online 2008 June 16. doi: 10.1186/1741-7015-6-13.
PMCID: PMC2438435
MicroRNAs: regulators of oncogenesis and stemness
Thales Papagiannakopoulos and Kenneth S Kosik
BMC Med. 2008; 6: 15. Published online 2008 June 24. doi: 10.1186/1741-7015-6-15.
PMCID: PMC2443163
Commentary on strategies for switching antipsychotics
John M Davis and Stefan Leucht
BMC Med. 2008; 6: 18. Published online 2008 June 30. doi: 10.1186/1741-7015-6-18.
PMCID: PMC2453133
Statins, bone, and neurofibromatosis type 1
Bruce R Korf
BMC Med. 2008; 6: 22. Published online 2008 July 31. doi: 10.1186/1741-7015-6-22.
PMCID: PMC2531128
The pathophysiology of malarial anaemia: where have all the red cells gone?
Oscar K Kai and David J Roberts
BMC Med. 2008; 6: 24. Published online 2008 August 21. doi: 10.1186/1741-7015-6-24.
PMCID: PMC2538540
Germline polymorphisms as modulators of cancer phenotypes
Patrick Tan
BMC Med. 2008; 6: 27. Published online 2008 September 8. doi: 10.1186/1741-7015-6-27.
PMCID: PMC2543032
The problems of meta-analysis for antibiotic treatment of chronic obstructive pulmonary disease, a heterogeneous disease: a commentary on Puhan et al
Sanjay Sethi
BMC Med. 2008; 6: 29. Published online 2008 October 10. doi: 10.1186/1741-7015-6-29.
PMCID: PMC2569059
25 years of HIV-1 research – progress and perspectives
Mark A Wainberg and Kuan-Teh Jeang
BMC Med. 2008; 6: 31. Published online 2008 October 31. doi: 10.1186/1741-7015-6-31.
PMCID: PMC2585089
LRRK2 in Parkinson's disease – drawing the curtain of penetrance: a commentary
Rejko Krüger
BMC Med. 2008; 6: 33. Published online 2008 November 5. doi: 10.1186/1741-7015-6-33.
PMCID: PMC2607298
Research Articles
Low birthweight and preterm birth in young people with special educational needs: a magnetic resonance imaging analysis
Michael D Spencer, T William J Moorhead, Rod J Gibson, Andrew M McIntosh, Jessika ED Sussmann, David GC Owens, Stephen M Lawrie, and Eve C Johnstone
BMC Med. 2008; 6: 1. Published online 2008 January 30. doi: 10.1186/1741-7015-6-1.
PMCID: PMC2241838
Mortality after infection with methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA) diagnosed in the community
JA 'Chris' Delaney, Verena Schneider-Lindner, Paul Brassard, and Samy Suissa
BMC Med. 2008; 6: 2. Published online 2008 January 31. doi: 10.1186/1741-7015-6-2.
PMCID: PMC2259374
Yellow fever control in Cameroon: Where are we now and where are we going?
Charles Shey Wiysonge, Emmanuel Nomo, Jeanne Mawo, James Ofal, Julienne Mimbouga, Johnson Ticha, and Peter M Ndumbe
BMC Med. 2008; 6: 3. Published online 2008 February 8. doi: 10.1186/1741-7015-6-3.
PMCID: PMC2268705
Physicians' experiences with end-of-life decision-making: Survey in 6 European countries and Australia
Rurik Löfmark, Tore Nilstun, Colleen Cartwright, Susanne Fischer, Agnes van der Heide, Freddy Mortier, Michael Norup, Lorenzo Simonato, Bregje D Onwuteaka-Philipsen, and the EURELD Consortium
BMC Med. 2008; 6: 4. Published online 2008 February 12. doi: 10.1186/1741-7015-6-4.
PMCID: PMC2277432
Graduates of different UK medical schools show substantial differences in performance on MRCP(UK) Part 1, Part 2 and PACES examinations
IC McManus, Andrew T Elder, Andre de Champlain, Jane E Dacre, Jennifer Mollon, and Liliana Chis
BMC Med. 2008; 6: 5. Published online 2008 February 14. doi: 10.1186/1741-7015-6-5.
PMCID: PMC2265293
Prostate-specific antigen at or before age 50 as a predictor of advanced prostate cancer diagnosed up to 25 years later: A case-control study
David Ulmert, Angel M Cronin, Thomas Björk, Matthew F O'Brien, Peter T Scardino, James A Eastham, Charlotte Becker, Göran Berglund, Andrew J Vickers, and Hans Lilja
BMC Med. 2008; 6: 6. Published online 2008 February 15. doi: 10.1186/1741-7015-6-6.
PMCID: PMC2275744
More in hope than expectation: a systematic review of women's expectations and experience of pain relief in labour
Joanne E Lally, Madeleine J Murtagh, Sheila Macphail, and Richard Thomson
BMC Med. 2008; 6: 7. Published online 2008 March 14. doi: 10.1186/1741-7015-6-7.
PMCID: PMC2358911
Clinical characterization and the mutation spectrum in Swedish adenomatous polyposis families
Gunilla Kanter-Smoler, Kaisa Fritzell, Anna Rohlin, Yvonne Engwall, Birgitta Hallberg, Annika Bergman, Johan Meuller, Henrik Grönberg, Per Karlsson, Jan Björk, and Margareta Nordling
BMC Med. 2008; 6: 10. Published online 2008 April 24. doi: 10.1186/1741-7015-6-10.
PMCID: PMC2386495
Collagen density promotes mammary tumor initiation and progression
Paolo P Provenzano, David R Inman, Kevin W Eliceiri, Justin G Knittel, Long Yan, Curtis T Rueden, John G White, and Patricia J Keely
BMC Med. 2008; 6: 11. Published online 2008 April 28. doi: 10.1186/1741-7015-6-11.
PMCID: PMC2386807
miR-124 and miR-137 inhibit proliferation of glioblastoma multiforme cells and induce differentiation of brain tumor stem cells
Joachim Silber, Daniel A Lim, Claudia Petritsch, Anders I Persson, Alika K Maunakea, Mamie Yu, Scott R Vandenberg, David G Ginzinger, C David James, Joseph F Costello, Gabriele Bergers, William A Weiss, Arturo Alvarez-Buylla, and J Graeme Hodgson
BMC Med. 2008; 6: 14. Published online 2008 June 24. doi: 10.1186/1741-7015-6-14.
PMCID: PMC2443372
Tracking the spatial diffusion of influenza and norovirus using telehealth data: A spatiotemporal analysis of syndromic data
Duncan L Cooper, Gillian E Smith, Martyn Regan, Shirley Large, and Peter P Groenewegen
BMC Med. 2008; 6: 16. Published online 2008 June 26. doi: 10.1186/1741-7015-6-16.
PMCID: PMC2464582
Assessment of strategies for switching patients from olanzapine to risperidone: A randomized, open-label, rater-blinded study
Rohan Ganguli, Jaspreet S Brar, Ramy Mahmoud, Sally A Berry, and Gahan J Pandina
BMC Med. 2008; 6: 17. Published online 2008 June 30. doi: 10.1186/1741-7015-6-17.
PMCID: PMC2474645
A panel of kallikrein markers can reduce unnecessary biopsy for prostate cancer: data from the European Randomized Study of Prostate Cancer Screening in Göteborg, Sweden
Andrew J Vickers, Angel M Cronin, Gunnar Aus, Carl-Gustav Pihl, Charlotte Becker, Kim Pettersson, Peter T Scardino, Jonas Hugosson, and Hans Lilja
BMC Med. 2008; 6: 19. Published online 2008 July 8. doi: 10.1186/1741-7015-6-19.
PMCID: PMC2474851
Connexin-43 upregulation in micrometastases and tumor vasculature and its role in tumor cell attachment to pulmonary endothelium
M Khair Elzarrad, Abu Haroon, Klaus Willecke, Radoslaw Dobrowolski, Mark N Gillespie, and Abu-Bakr Al-Mehdi
BMC Med. 2008; 6: 20. Published online 2008 July 22. doi: 10.1186/1741-7015-6-20.
PMCID: PMC2492868
Modelling neurofibromatosis type 1 tibial dysplasia and its treatment with lovastatin
Mateusz Kolanczyk, Jirko Kühnisch, Nadine Kossler, Monika Osswald, Sabine Stumpp, Boris Thurisch, Uwe Kornak, and Stefan Mundlos
BMC Med. 2008; 6: 21. Published online 2008 July 31. doi: 10.1186/1741-7015-6-21.
PMCID: PMC2516519
Increased deposition of C3b on red cells with low CR1 and CD55 in a malaria-endemic region of western Kenya: Implications for the development of severe anemia
Collins O Odhiambo, Walter Otieno, Christine Adhiambo, Michael M Odera, and José A Stoute
BMC Med. 2008; 6: 23. Published online 2008 August 21. doi: 10.1186/1741-7015-6-23.
PMCID: PMC2562382
Association between umbilical cord glucocorticoids and blood pressure at age 3 years
Susanna Y Huh, Ruth Andrew, Janet W Rich-Edwards, Ken P Kleinman, Jonathan R Seckl, and Matthew W Gillman
BMC Med. 2008; 6: 25. Published online 2008 August 28. doi: 10.1186/1741-7015-6-25.
PMCID: PMC2533350
Genomic variation in myeloma: design, content, and initial application of the Bank On A Cure SNP Panel to detect associations with progression-free survival
Brian Van Ness, Christine Ramos, Majda Haznadar, Antje Hoering, Jeff Haessler, John Crowley, Susanna Jacobus, Martin Oken, Vincent Rajkumar, Philip Greipp, Bart Barlogie, Brian Durie, Michael Katz, Gowtham Atluri, Gang Fang, Rohit Gupta, Michael Steinbach, Vipin Kumar, Richard Mushlin, David Johnson, and Gareth Morgan
BMC Med. 2008; 6: 26. Published online 2008 September 8. doi: 10.1186/1741-7015-6-26.
PMCID: PMC2553089
Where is the supporting evidence for treating mild to moderate chronic obstructive pulmonary disease exacerbations with antibiotics? A systematic review
Milo A Puhan, Daniela Vollenweider, Johann Steurer, Patrick M Bossuyt, and Gerben ter Riet
BMC Med. 2008; 6: 28. Published online 2008 October 10. doi: 10.1186/1741-7015-6-28.
PMCID: PMC2569060
Lack of association of two common polymorphisms on 9p21 with risk of coronary heart disease and myocardial infarction; results from a prospective cohort study
Abbas Dehghan, Mandy van Hoek, Eric JG Sijbrands, Ben A Oostra, Albert Hofman, Cornelia M van Duijn, and Jacqueline CM Witteman
BMC Med. 2008; 6: 30. Published online 2008 October 16. doi: 10.1186/1741-7015-6-30.
PMCID: PMC2579294
The Gly2019Ser mutation in LRRK2 is not fully penetrant in familial Parkinson's disease: the GenePD study
Jeanne C Latourelle, Mei Sun, Mark F Lew, Oksana Suchowersky, Christine Klein, Lawrence I Golbe, Margery H Mark, John H Growdon, G Frederick Wooten, Ray L Watts, Mark Guttman, Brad A Racette, Joel S Perlmutter, Anwar Ahmed, Holly A Shill, Carlos Singer, Stefano Goldwurm, Gianni Pezzoli, Michela Zini, Marie H Saint-Hilaire, Audrey E Hendricks, Sally Williamson, Michael W Nagle, Jemma B Wilk, Tiffany Massood, Karen W Huskey, Jason M Laramie, Anita L DeStefano, Kenneth B Baker, Ilia Itin, Irene Litvan, Garth Nicholson, Alastair Corbett, Martha Nance, Edward Drasby, Stuart Isaacson, David J Burn, Patrick F Chinnery, Peter P Pramstaller, Jomana Al-hinti, Anette T Moller, Karen Ostergaard, Scott J Sherman, Richard Roxburgh, Barry Snow, John T Slevin, Franca Cambi, James F Gusella, and Richard H Myers
BMC Med. 2008; 6: 32. Published online 2008 November 5. doi: 10.1186/1741-7015-6-32.
PMCID: PMC2596771
Valvular regurgitation and surgery associated with fenfluramine use: an analysis of 5743 individuals
Charles F Dahl, Marvin R Allen, Paul M Urie, and Paul N Hopkins
BMC Med. 2008; 6: 34. Published online 2008 November 6. doi: 10.1186/1741-7015-6-34.
PMCID: PMC2585088
A controlled trial of the effectiveness of internet continuing medical education
Linda Casebeer, Sally Engler, Nancy Bennett, Martin Irvine, Destry Sulkes, Marc DesLauriers, and Sijian Zhang
BMC Med. 2008; 6: 37. Published online 2008 December 4. doi: 10.1186/1741-7015-6-37.
PMCID: PMC2612689
Review
Measuring maternal mortality: An overview of opportunities and options for developing countries
WJ Graham, S Ahmed, C Stanton, CL Abou-Zahr, and OMR Campbell
BMC Med. 2008; 6: 12. Published online 2008 May 26. doi: 10.1186/1741-7015-6-12.
PMCID: PMC2430703
Technical Advance
The Method for Assigning Priority Levels (MAPLe): A new decision-support system for allocating home care resources
John P Hirdes, Jeff W Poss, and Nancy Curtin-Telegdi
BMC Med. 2008; 6: 9. Published online 2008 March 26. doi: 10.1186/1741-7015-6-9.
PMCID: PMC2330052
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