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Two new awards announced for 4th Annual Research Awards

As part of our 4th Annual Research Awards, we have added some new awards. In 2010, Genome Biology will celebrate its tenth birthday, to mark the occasion we will be presenting the 'Genome Biology Award - Celebrating 10 years of excellence'. The award will recognise any ground-breaking article, methodology or software published in Genome Biology during 2009.  The winning article will be judged by a panel including the journal's Editor, Clare Garvey, along with external experts in the field.

In addition, BioMed Central will present another two awards recognising the best image and movie published in Biology Image Library during 2009. The judging panel includes BioMed Central's Biology Director, Dr Michaela Torkar and Associate Editorial Director (Biology), Dr Miranda Robertson.

These awards will be presented alongside our well-established Biology and Medicine Prizes which recognise excellent research published in any of our 199 journals during 2009.

Nominations for any of these awards can be made via the 4th Annual Research Awards website.

The winners will be announced at a ceremony in June 2010.

Posted by Charlotte Webber at 18:11    Comments (0)

Too hot to handle – the effect of temperature on mortality

An article published this week in Environmental Health provides a current review of the epidemiological literature on the effect of temperature on mortality. 

Epidemiological studies of temperature and heat-related mortality have been receiving increased attention recently. Identifying risk factors and potentially susceptible populations are becoming increasingly important for public health interventions as temperatures are predicted to rise worldwide due to climate change.

Previous reviews on temperature and heat-related mortality have focused on methodology and climatology, largely ignoring epidemiological studies on this topic. The review by Dr Rupa Basu provides a timely overview of epidemiology studies examining the effect of temperature on mortality.

Review
High ambient temperature and mortality: a review of epidemiologic studies from 2001 to 2008
Rupa Basu
Environmental Health 2009, 8:40 (16 September 2009)

In her review, Dr Basu includes two sections on the most relevant new topics in the area, the confounding effects of air pollution on heat-related mortality and the identification of subgroups particularly vulnerable to the effects of heat. These aspects of temperature and mortality will be important areas for future research in the field.

Environmental Health publishes articles on all aspects of environmental and occupational medicine and related studies in toxicology and epidemiology. To access the latest articles published in the journal, please click here.

Posted by Anne Braae at 13:24    Comments (0)