In what appears to be the first report by an investigative journalist who mined the ghostwriting archive created by PLoS Medicine last week, a Canadian HRT expert is named as a participant in Wyeth’s ghostwriting scheme.
Barbara Sherwin, a McGill University psychology professor widely considered an expert on hormones, was the sole author of a 2000 [...]
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Yesterday PLoS Medicine published an article by Daniel Maeusezahl and colleagues on their trial in Bolivia of SODIS, a solar disinfection method that aims to improve water quality and reduce the burden of diarrhea from unsafe drinking water. SODIS has been promoted and rolled out in communities all around the world on the basis of [...]
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The use of rape as a tool of war persists, but attention to it does not.
The current Africa tour of US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton has again shed welcome light on the deplorable and devastating practice of sexual violence (mostly against women and girls) in armed conflicts, sometimes by military personnel themselves.
Today a news [...]
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Yesterday my colleague Gavin Yamey, who is on sabbatical in east Africa this summer, wrote an interesting piece in Virtual Mentor, the AMA’s online ethics journal that this month tackles the theme “medicine in the era of globalization.”
In his article Gavin argues that open access to the medical literature can boost the global public health. [...]
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When I was researching this month’s PLoS Medicine editorial arguing that clean water should be recognised as a human right my colleague Larry Peiperl sent me this quote by W.H. Auden: Thousands have lived without love, not one without water.
I love it.
I also discovered a great many NGOs and charity groups devoted to raising awareness [...]
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Everyone loves lists!
The blog of Alanna Shaikh, a global health expert from Tajikistan, contains a list of Eleven Essential Resources on Global Health that I found extremely useful. She includes blogs, clearinghouses, the websites of foundations and governmental organisations, and the famous presentation of Hans Rosling on health statistics in the developing world.
To her list [...]
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