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BMC Medicine is the flagship medical journal of the BMC series. An open access, open peer-reviewed general medical journal, BMC Medicine publishes outstanding and influential research in all areas of clinical practice, translational medicine, medical and health advances, public health, global health, policy, and general topics of interest to the biomedical and sociomedical professional communities. We also publish stimulating debates and reviews as well as unique forum articles and concise tutorials.
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Research article | 29th November 2018
Sauna bathing is associated with reduced cardiovascular mortality and improves risk prediction in men and women: a prospective cohort study
Tanjaniina Laukkanen, Setor K. Kunutsor, Hassan Khan, Peter Willeit, Francesco Zaccardi and Jari A. Laukkanen
Research article | 11th January 2019
Morbidity, mortality and missed appointments in healthcare: a national retrospective data linkage study
Ross McQueenie, David A. Ellis, Alex McConnachie, Philip Wilson and Andrea E. Williamson
Research article | 10th January 2019
The impact of repeated vaccination on influenza vaccine effectiveness: a systematic review and meta-analysis
Lauren C. Ramsay, Sarah A. Buchan, Robert G. Stirling, Benjamin J. Cowling, Shuo Feng, Jeffrey C. Kwong and Bryna F. Warshawsky
Research article | 15th January 2019
Serious adverse events reported in placebo randomised controlled trials of oral naltrexone: a systematic review and meta-analysis
Monica Bolton, Alex Hodkinson, Shivani Boda, Alan Mould, Maria Panagioti, Sarah Rhodes, Lisa Riste and Harm van Marwijk
Review | 13th December 2018
Insulin translates unfavourable lifestyle into obesity
Hubert Kolb, Michael Stumvoll, Werner Kramer, Kerstin Kempf. and Stephan Martin
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Review | 5th May 2016
Cancer immunotherapy: the beginning of the end of cancer?
Sofia Farkona, Eleftherios P. Diamandis and Ivan M. Blasutig
Correspondence | 4th January 2016
Cancer and fertility preservation: international recommendations from an expert meeting
Matteo Lambertini, Lucia Del Mastro, Maria C. Pescio, Claus Y. Andersen, Hatem A. Azim Jr., Fedro A. Peccatori, Mauro Costa, Alberto Revelli, Francesca Salvagno, Alessandra Gennari, Filippo M. Ubaldi, Giovanni B. La Sala, Cristofaro De Stefano, W. Hamish Wallace, Ann H. Partridge and Paola Anserini
Review | 23rd March 2016
The impact of migration on tuberculosis epidemiology and control in high-income countries: a review
Manish Pareek, Christina Greenaway, Teymur Noori, Jose Munoz and Dominik Zenner
Research Article | 4 February 2016
Post-marketing withdrawal of 462 medicinal products because of adverse drug reactions: a systematic review of the world literature
Igho J. Onakpoya, Carl J. Heneghan and Jeffrey K. Aronson
Guideline | 9 November 2016
Effective and safe proton pump inhibitor therapy in acid-related diseases – A position paper addressing benefits and potential harms of acid suppression
Carmelo Scarpignato, Luigi Gatta, Angelo Zullo, Corrado Blandizzi, for the SIF-AIGO-FIMMG Group and on behalf of the Italian Society of Pharmacology, the Italian Association of Hospital Gastroenterologists, and the Italian Federation of General Practitioners
Source: Web of Science
Correspondence | 24 March 2010
CONSORT 2010 Statement: updated guidelines for reporting parallel group randomised trials
Kenneth F Schulz, Douglas G Altman and David Moher
Debate | 14 May 2013
Toward the future of psychiatric diagnosis: the seven pillars of RDoC
Bruce N Cuthbert and Thomas R Insel
Research Article | 26 December 2006
Collagen reorganization at the tumor-stromal interface facilitates local invasion
Paolo P Provenzano, Kevin W Eliceiri, Jay M Campbell, David R Inman, John G White and Patricia J Keely
Research Article | 24 June 2008
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
Research Article | 26 July 2011
Cross-national epidemiology of DSM-IV major depressive episode
Evelyn Bromet, Laura Helena Andrade, Irving Hwang, Nancy A Sampson, Jordi Alonso, Giovanni de Girolamo, Ron de Graaf, Koen Demyttenaere, Chiyi Hu, Noboru Iwata, Aimee N Karam, Jagdish Kaur, Stanislav Kostyuchenko, Jean-Pierre Lépine, Daphna Levinson, Herbert Matschinger, Maria Elena Medina Mora, Mark Oakley Browne, Jose Posada-Villa, Maria Carmen Viana, David R Williams and Ronald C Kessler
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Complexity in Mental Health Research: Theory, Method, and Empirical Contributions
Guest edited by Dr Eiko I. Fried and Dr Donald Robinaugh
Stunting, undernutrition and obesity: the triple threat of childhood malnutrition
Guest edited by Prof. Andrew Prentice and Dr. Martha Mwangome
Beyond Big Data to new Biomedical and Health Data Science: moving to next century precision health
Guest edited by Prof. Aziz Sheikh, Dr. Paul Wicks, Dr. Josip Car and Dr. Marc S. Williams
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Focus: Disease Genetics
Read the latest reviews on Disease Genetics across BMC flagship journals.
Genomic screening for monogenic forms of diabetes
Leslie G. Biesecker
Published in BMC Medicine on: 20 February 2018
Dosage-sensitive genes in evolution and disease
Alan M. Rice and Aoife McLysaght
Published in BMC Biology on: 1 September 2017
Mapping genetic variations to three-dimensional protein structures to enhance variant interpretation: a proposed framework
Gustavo Glusman, Peter W. Rose, Andreas Prlić, Jennifer Dougherty, José M. Duarte, Andrew S. Hoffman, Geoffrey J. Barton, Emøke Bendixen, Timothy Bergquist, Christian Bock, Elizabeth Brunk, Marija Buljan, Stephen K. Burley, Binghuang Cai, Hannah Carter, JianJiong Gao, Adam Godzik, Michael Heuer, Michael Hicks, Thomas Hrabe, Rachel Karchin, Julia Koehler Leman, Lydie Lane, David L. Masica, Sean D. Mooney, John Moult, Gilbert S. Omenn, Frances Pearl, Vikas Pejaver, Sheila M. Reynolds, Ariel Rokem, Torsten Schwede, Sicheng Song, Hagen Tilgner, Yana Valasatava, Yang Zhang and Eric W. Deutsch
Published in Genome Medicine on: 18 December 2017
The impact of rare and low-frequency genetic variants in common disease
Lorenzo Bomba, Klaudia Walter and Nicole Soranzo
Published in Genome Biology on: 27 April 2017
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