Focuses and supplements
Nature Medicine provides reviews and commentary illuminating topics of particular interest. These sites also contain other relevant content and links to related material.
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2008
Reproductive Biology -
In what direction is the field of reproductive biology going? By bringing together input from top scientists and decision makers interested in this field, this focus identifies the recent papers with the most impact in reproductive biology and identifies the key issues that are shaping our thinking in this field.
March Vol. 14, No. 11
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2007
Tuberculosis -
In what direction is the field of tuberculosis going? By bringing together input from top scientists, analysts and decision makers interested in tuberculosis research, this focus identifies the recent papers with the most impact in the discipline and identifies the key issues that are shaping our thinking in this field.
March Vol. 13, No. 3
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2006
Psychiatric disorders -
A collection of research and review articles from Nature Publishing Group on recent advances in our understanding of psychiatric disorders.
August Vol. 12, No. 9
Alzheimer disease -
In the same spirit as our metabolic syndrome focus, a close look at the papers that have had the most influence on the Alzheimer community, and an analysis of the relevant drug market and funding priorities.
July Vol. 12, No. 7
Metabolic syndrome -
What makes the metabolic syndrome field tick? Discover the recent papers with the most impact in the discipline and find out the funding priorities of countries interested in this problem.
January Vol. 12, No. 1
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2005
Vaccines -
Vaccines are our best protection against infectious disease and offer hope as immunotherapeutic approaches for the treatment of allergy, autoimmunity, cancer and other diseases. In this special supplement we review vaccine research and development and highlight some of the obstacles and opportunities in this field.
April Vol. 11, Issue 4s
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2004
Emerging Infectious Diseases -
Emerging infectious diseases pose serious threats to public health in developed and developing countries. This collection of articles reviews how they emerge, and our current understanding of the biology of the most challenging infectious agents that we currently face.
December Vol. 10, Issue 12s
Celebrating our 10th year -
A series of articles highlighting the major biomedical achievements of the past decade.
February Vol. 10, No. 2
Focus on neurodegeneration -
A joint web focus between Nature Medicine and Nature Reviews Neuroscience.
July Vol. 10, No. 7
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2003
Focus on angiogenesis -
A joint web focus between Nature Medicine and Nature Reviews Cancer.
June Vol. 9, No. 6
Focus on technology trends -
Focus on emerging technologies (those undergoing unusually rapid development) and platform technologies (with broad applications).
January Vol. 9, No. 1
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2002
Focus on fertility -
A joint web focus and print supplement between Nature Medicine and Nature Cell Biology.
October Vol. 8, No. 10
Focus on atherosclerosis -
A comprehensive and authoritative overview of the field focused on areas undergoing particularly rapid progress.
November Vol. 8, No. 11
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2001
Focus on breast cancer -
A comprehensive and authoritative overview of our understanding of this form of cancer.
April Vol. 7, No. 4
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2000
Focus on tuberculosis -
A comprehensive and authoritative overview of the field written by experts in this infectious disease.
December Vol. 6, No. 12
Focus on malaria -
A selection of the most-recent and best scientific papers and News & Views articles on malaria research published in Nature Medicine and in Nature.
August Vol. 6, No. 8
