| | Other Issues: previous | next | latest | archiveCommentaries 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 |