 An open access, open peer-reviewed general medical journal, "BMC Medicine" publishes outstanding and influential research in all areas of clinical practice, translational medicine, medical and health advances, public health, global health, policy, and general topics of interest to the biomedical and sociomedical professional communities".Like the other journals in the BMC stable, "BMC Medicine" is an open access journal, funded by article processing fees.The journal is abstracted and indexed in CAS, BIOSIS, Embase, MEDLINE, PubMed Central, Science Citation Index Expanded and Scopus.