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  1. After 7 years of increasing conflict and violence, the Syrian civil war now constitutes the largest displacement crisis in the world, with more than 6 million people who have been internally displaced. Among t...

    Authors: Rahma Aburas, Amina Najeeb, Laila Baageel and Tim K. Mackey
    Citation: BMC Medicine 2018 16:65
    Content type: Opinion Published on:

  2. Implementation science has a core aim – to get evidence into practice. Early in the evidence-based medicine movement, this task was construed in linear terms, wherein the knowledge pipeline moved from evidence...

    Authors: Jeffrey Braithwaite, Kate Churruca, Janet C. Long, Louise A. Ellis and Jessica Herkes
    Citation: BMC Medicine 2018 16:63
    Content type: Opinion Published on:

  5. There is increasing focus on the strength of primary health care systems in low and middle-income countries (LMIC). There are important roles for higher quality district hospital care within these systems. The...

    Authors: Mike English, Paul Mwaniki, Thomas Julius, Mercy Chepkirui, David Gathara, Paul O. Ouma, Peter Cherutich, Emelda A. Okiro and Robert W. Snow
    Citation: BMC Medicine 2018 16:32
    Content type: Debate Published on:

  6. Adult-onset, or type II diabetes mellitus (T2DM) has a complex genetic architecture, from hundreds of genes with low penetrance, common susceptibility variants (e.g., TCF7L2), to a set of more than ten genes that...

    Authors: Leslie G. Biesecker
    Citation: BMC Medicine 2018 16:25
    Content type: Commentary Published on:

    The original article was published in BMC Medicine 2017 15:213

  7. The therapeutic approach for the second-line treatment of patients with advanced non-small cell lung cancer (NSCLC) without actionable mutations has been revolutionized by the recent approval of new effective ...

    Authors: Alessandro Morabito
    Citation: BMC Medicine 2018 16:24
    Content type: Commentary Published on:

    The original article was published in BMC Medicine 2017 15:193

  8. Disability as a health outcome deserves more attention than it has so far received. With people living longer and the epidemiological transition from infectious to noncommunicable diseases as the major cause o...

    Authors: Alarcos Cieza, Carla Sabariego, Jerome Bickenbach and Somnath Chatterji
    Citation: BMC Medicine 2018 16:14
    Content type: Debate Published on:

  9. In 2016, the World Health Organization (WHO) recommended point-of-use fortification of complementary foods with iron-containing micronutrient powders to improve iron status and reduce anaemia in children at ri...

    Authors: Hans Verhoef, Emily Teshome and Andrew M. Prentice
    Citation: BMC Medicine 2018 16:7
    Content type: Commentary Published on:

    The original article was published in BMC Medicine 2017 15:99

    The original article was published in BMC Medicine 2017 15:89

  10. Changes in climate, in conjunction with other drivers of mobility, shape human migration. While there is an increasing focus on the adaptive potential of migration, the health impacts of climate-related migrat...

    Authors: Patricia Schwerdtle, Kathryn Bowen and Celia McMichael
    Citation: BMC Medicine 2018 16:1
    Content type: Opinion Published on:

  11. Interventions in infectious diseases can have both direct effects on individuals who receive the intervention as well as indirect effects in the population. In addition, intervention combinations can have comp...

    Authors: M. Elizabeth Halloran, Kari Auranen, Sarah Baird, Nicole E. Basta, Steven E. Bellan, Ron Brookmeyer, Ben S. Cooper, Victor DeGruttola, James P. Hughes, Justin Lessler, Eric T. Lofgren, Ira M. Longini, Jukka-Pekka Onnela, Berk Özler, George R. Seage, Thomas A. Smith…
    Citation: BMC Medicine 2017 15:223
    Content type: Opinion Published on:

  13. To achieve complete polio eradication, the live oral poliovirus vaccine (OPV) currently used must be phased out after the end of wild poliovirus transmission. However, poorly understood threats may arise when ...

    Authors: James S. Koopman
    Citation: BMC Medicine 2017 15:221
    Content type: Commentary Published on:

    The original article was published in BMC Medicine 2017 15:180

    The original article was published in BMC Medicine 2017 15:175

  16. This Commentary describes the situation and healthcare needs of Afghans returning to their country of origin. With more than 600,000 Afghans returned from Pakistan and approximately 450,000 Afghans returned fr...

    Authors: Ariel Higgins-Steele, David Lai, Paata Chikvaidze, Khaksar Yousufi, Zelaikha Anwari, Richard Peeperkorn and Karen Edmond
    Citation: BMC Medicine 2017 15:196
    Content type: Commentary Published on:

  18. Given our increasingly diverse societies, there is an urgent need for research into the causes of persistent ethnic disparities in undergraduate clinical performance. It is argued that causes for underperforma...

    Authors: Karen M. Stegers-Jager
    Citation: BMC Medicine 2017 15:190
    Content type: Commentary Published on:

    The original article was published in BMC Medicine 2017 15:179

  19. Jox and colleagues recently compared and contrasted two leading end-of-life exit options, namely voluntarily stopping eating and drinking (VSED) and medical aid in dying (MAID). The authors argue that policyma...

    Authors: Thaddeus Mason Pope
    Citation: BMC Medicine 2017 15:187
    Content type: Commentary Published on:

    The original article was published in BMC Medicine 2017 15:186

    The original article was published in BMC Medicine 2017 15:186

  20. Physician-assisted dying has been the subject of extensive discussion and legislative activity both in Europe and North America. In this context, dying by voluntary stopping of eating and drinking (VSED) is of...

    Authors: Ralf J. Jox, Isra Black, Gian Domenico Borasio and Johanna Anneser
    Citation: BMC Medicine 2017 15:186
    Content type: Debate Published on:

    The Commentary to this article has been published in BMC Medicine 2017 15:187

  22. Herein, we summarise the results of the most relevant studies presented at the 2017 ASCO Annual Meeting in the field of soft tissue sarcomas (STSs) and gastrointestinal stromal tumours (GISTs). Innovations on ...

    Authors: Anna Maria Frezza, Silvia Stacchiotti and Alessandro Gronchi
    Citation: BMC Medicine 2017 15:160
    Content type: Commentary Published on:

  23. Advances in deep sequencing technology have led to developments in personalized medicine. Here, we describe the implications of a recent investigation that sequenced ctDNA from the plasma of non-small cell lun...

    Authors: Clare Fiala and Eleftherios P. Diamandis
    Citation: BMC Medicine 2017 15:157
    Content type: Commentary Published on:

  25. Mehdizadeh and colleagues recently described the prevalence of General Medical Council regulatory performance assessments by doctors’ country of primary medical qualification. This article has caused anger wit...

    Authors: Richard Wakeford
    Citation: BMC Medicine 2017 15:149
    Content type: Commentary Published on:

  26. Assessments of vaccine efficacy and safety capture only the minimum information needed for regulatory approval, rather than the full public health value of vaccines. Vaccine efficacy provides a measure of prop...

    Authors: A. Wilder-Smith, I. Longini, P. L. Zuber, T. Bärnighausen, W. J. Edmunds, N. Dean, V. Masserey Spicher, M. R. Benissa and B. D. Gessner
    Citation: BMC Medicine 2017 15:138
    Content type: Opinion Published on:

  27. Compassionate use is the use of unapproved drugs outside of clinical trials. So far, compassionate use regulations have been introduced in the US, Canada, many European countries, Australia and Brazil, and tre...

    Authors: Jan Borysowski, Hans-Jörg Ehni and Andrzej Górski
    Citation: BMC Medicine 2017 15:136
    Content type: Opinion Published on:

  29. The damage to health caused by intimate partner violence demands effective responses from healthcare providers and healthcare systems worldwide. To date, most evidence for the few existing, effective intervent...

    Authors: Angela Taft and Manuela Colombini
    Citation: BMC Medicine 2017 15:127
    Content type: Commentary Published on:

  34. Vascular cognitive impairment (VCI) is a complex spectrum encompassing post-stroke cognitive impairment (PSCI) and small vessel disease-related cognitive impairment. Despite the growing health, social, and eco...

    Authors: Régis Bordet, Ralf Ihl, Amos D. Korczyn, Giuseppe Lanza, Jelka Jansa, Robert Hoerr and Alla Guekht
    Citation: BMC Medicine 2017 15:107
    Content type: Opinion Published on:

  37. We present two consensus definitions of advanced and late stage liver disease being used as epidemiological tools. These definitions can be applied to assess the morbidity caused by liver diseases in different...

    Authors: Stefan Mauss, Stanislas Pol, Maria Buti, Erika Duffell, Charles Gore, Jeffrey V. Lazarus, Hilje Logtenberg-van der Grient, Jens Lundgren, Antons Mozalevskis, Dorthe Raben, Eberhard Schatz, Stefan Wiktor and Jürgen K. Rockstroh
    Citation: BMC Medicine 2017 15:92
    Content type: Correspondence Published on:

  38. Precision medicine is a new and important topic in psychiatry. Psychiatry has not yet benefited from the advanced diagnostic and therapeutic technologies that form an integral part of other clinical specialtie...

    Authors: Brisa S. Fernandes, Leanne M. Williams, Johann Steiner, Marion Leboyer, André F. Carvalho and Michael Berk
    Citation: BMC Medicine 2017 15:80
    Content type: Opinion Published on:

  44. The unprecedented impact and modeling efforts associated with the 2014–2015 Ebola epidemic in West Africa provides a unique opportunity to document the performances and caveats of forecasting approaches used i...

    Authors: Gerardo Chowell, Cécile Viboud, Lone Simonsen, Stefano Merler and Alessandro Vespignani
    Citation: BMC Medicine 2017 15:42
    Content type: Opinion Published on:

  46. Proton pump inhibitor (PPI) therapy is commonly used outside of Food and Drug Administration indication for a broad range of conditions such as extra-esophageal reflux and PPI-responsive esophageal eosinophili...

    Authors: Rena Yadlapati and Peter J. Kahrilas
    Citation: BMC Medicine 2017 15:36
    Content type: Commentary Published on:

    The original article was published in BMC Medicine 2016 14:179