Earlier this week NPR ran an item about how anti-smoking efforts have evolved over the decades. Since 1984 when the first nicotine gum became available over the counter, nicotine replacement therapy drugs have been promoted by the pharmaceutical industry to help people quit. But what is the most effective way to stop smoking? According to [...]
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In January 2010 PLoS Medicine published a four-part weekly series examining the ways in which global health institutions and arrangements are changing and evolving.
In the introductory article Nicole A. Szlezák of Harvard University and colleagues analyze the changing relationships between “old actors” in global health (such as the World Health Organization and national health ministries) [...]
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Read the new papers published in PLoS Medicine this week, including research on the relationship between climate and dengue incidence in Puerto Rico, Mexico and Thailand and a Perspective that discusses the findings. Two new Policy Forums – on the unintended consequences of clinical trial regulations and the use of [...]
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The third UN World Food Summit assembles this week. But despite the fact that more than one billion people go hungry every day, the most powerful world leaders will not be attending. Only one of the G8 leaders, Silvio Burlesconi, who is hosting the gathering in Rome, will be present. The draft declaration of the [...]
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Packages of Care for Mental, Neurological, and Substance Use Disorders in Low and Middle Income Countries:
Between October 2009 and February 2010 PLoS Medicine published a seven part series exploring how best to treat mental, neurological and substance use disorders in low- and middle-income countries.
The full set of articles in the series are listed [...]
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PLoS Medicine author, Catherine Hankins, took part in a discussion on the BBC World Service earlier this week asking what role adult male medical circumcision can play in tackling HIV. The Health Check programme reported from Botswana, where a recently launched national media campaign is encouraging young men to get circumcised by a trained provider [...]
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As previous posts have mentioned, Gavin Yamey is currently on a Kaiser Foundation-funded fellowship in global reporting in Sudan and East Africa. He is giving a talk on Tuesday, August 4th at the KEMRI/Wellcome Trust Research Programme in Nairobi, Kenya (click here to see a map showing the location in Nairobi).
The talk is entitled “Why [...]
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A series of videos was commissioned to highlight the new editorial focus of PLoS Medicine – the decision to prioritise papers on the conditions and risk factors that cause the greatest losses in years of healthy life worldwide
All five videos – in which Ginny Barbour, the Chief Editor of the journal, is interviewed – can [...]
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