Lorena Verduci

© chompoo / stock.adobe.com BMC Pregnancy and Childbirth – Effect of early vitamin D supplementation on the incidence of preeclampsia in primigravid women: a randomised clinical trial in Eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo Preeclampsia (PE) is a hypertensive disorder of pregnancy that affects around 5% of pregnant women globally and it can bring to preterm delivery, low birth weight and even to the death of the mothers and their newborns.

As the Editor of BMC Public Health, I had the opportunity to attend  the American Public Health Association’s (APHA’s) 151st Annual Meeting and Exposition held in Atlanta, Georgia, one of the birthplaces of the civil rights movements.

Can laughter yoga enhance the quality of life of cancer patients undergoing chemotherapy? -- How do general practitioners manage patients with knee pain attributed to degenerative meniscal tear? -- How does adaptive evolution drive the invasion of disease vectors? -- Which is the importance of cartilaginous rings on the flow passing through a stenosed trachea?