Dementia: innovative approaches in therapy, care and diagnostics
Late last year, ministers, researchers, pharmaceutical companies and charities from around the world gathered together at the G8 dementia summit to make a declaration and commitment for global action...
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Preventing mental disorders – from the workplace to pregnancy, how can new...
As BMC Medicine and BMC Psychiatry launch a new article collection on the prevention of mental disorders, Ursula D’Souza, Senior Editor of BMC Medicine and Alice Murray, Executive Editor of BMC...
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Endocrine disorders: the impact of stress and epigenetics
Endocrine disorders span a range of conditions, from diabetes and thyroid disease to stress-related conditions. Stress has been linked to a number of health problems, with the most recent evidence...
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Mood disorders: Exploring the placebo effect, improving treatment and the...
Antidepressant drugs which alleviate symptoms of depression have received much attention in the news recently, showing that the UK is the 7th highest country in the West to prescribe the drugs. The...
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Cardiovascular disorders: novel therapies, prevention strategies and...
Today is World Heart Day, and having recently got back from attending the European Congress of Cardiology as part of my role at BMC Medicine, it seemed an opportune moment to take you through some of...
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Schizophrenia: quality of life and drug treatment
To recognize World Mental Health day and its focus on living with schizophrenia we‘ve taken a look at some recent research emphasizing quality of life and treatment for those affected by this chronic...
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Exposure to stress and environmental toxins: Effects across generations
Today is National Stress Awareness day and the theme this year is Stress: the balancing act. Here, we take a look at some recent research on stress in relation to its effect over generations and...
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Diabetes: Risk factors and lifestyle interventions
Today is World Diabetes Day and this year it is centred on the theme of healthy living and diabetes. To mark this, we take a look at some of the recent research and discussions on risk factors and...
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Promise vs perils of electronic cigarettes- a new article collection in BMC...
Electronic cigarettes (e-cigarettes, ECs) are the centre of much controversy due to public health concerns associated with some of its components including nicotine which is highly addictive....
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The research behind giving up cigarettes: a Q&A with leading expert Peter Hajek
Once addicted, giving up cigarettes can be an extremely challenging task. But with the availability of nicotine replacement products such as patches, nasal sprays and e-cigarettes, is this becoming...
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