For the denizens of rural Guatemala, access to medicine is sparse, and more advanced medicine like surgeries are out of reach. The resources that are available, such as the state-of-the-art facilities in Guatemala City, are not accessed by enough people [...]

The winners of BioMed Central’s Annual Research Awards were announced last week, which are given to publications of exceptional quality published in open access journals. Among the ten recipients was Dr. Virender Rehan's 2012 paper entitled "Perinatal nicotine exposure induces [...]

Dr. Virender Rehan and a team of collaborators recently published a landmark study using laboratory rats, showing that the risk of asthma is not only limited to the children of women who smoke but also passes to grandchildren and even [...]