Guest Blog by Janani Krishnaswami, a second-year resident in internal and preventive medicine at UCSF and Kaiser Permanente – San Francisco, and former PLoS Medicine intern
The United States spends a huge proportion of GDP on healthcare dollars, yet lags behind on health and equality metrics compared to its industrialized, relatively cost-conscious peers.
In January, the Center [...]
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Guest blog by Kim Klausner, Tobacco Digital Library Manager, University of California, San Francisco, USA
The Drug Industry Document Archive (http://dida.library.ucsf.edu) has added 241 documents about the marketing of Seroquel from the files of AstraZeneca. These documents show how the company obscured the potential for patient weight gain and diabetes from physicians and regulatory [...]
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Guest blog by Gemma Ortiz, Neglected Diseases Senior Advocacy and Liaison Officer, Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF), Barcelona, Spain
Over 1 billion people, about one-sixth of the world’s population, are infected with one or more neglected tropical diseases (NTDs). These parasitic diseases are the most common infections in the 2.7 billion people living on less than $2 [...]
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Guest blog by Steven Welch, Consultant in Paediatric HIV and Infectious Diseases, Heartlands Hospital, Birmingham, United Kingdom.
Today is the fourth and last day of the 17th CROI (Conference on Retrovirology and Opportunistic Infections) in San Francisco. There is immense enthusiasm here for the range of tools we now have to prevent and treat HIV infection. [...]
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Guest Blog by Janani Krishnaswami, PLoS Medicine Intern
Animal research enables advancement in disease management, and saving or prolonging the lives of patients. However, potentially harming animals to improve human welfare can generate ethical disquiet in scientists and physicians who – through years of scientific education, volunteering and patient interactions – work daily to ease suffering.
The [...]
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Guest blog by Dr. Greg Elder, Deputy Operations Manager, Médecins Sans Frontières/Doctors Without Borders (MSF), New York
Now in the fourth week after Haiti’s catastrophic January 12th earthquake, approximately 700,000 internally displaced people (IDPs) in Port-au-Prince are living in temporary shelters at nearly 600 relief sites. Displaced populations are also living in resettlement camps just outside [...]
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Guest blog by Gavin Yamey, San Francisco Lead, Evidence to Policy initiative (E2Pi), Global Health Group, University of California San Francisco.
PLoS Medicine recently published an editorial about the rise of “malaria activism,” and particularly the need for a new wave of advocacy to raise awareness about the crisis of malaria drug stock-outs in Africa. [...]
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Guest blog by Dr. Richard Murphy, Infectious Diseases Referent, and Oliver Yun, Medical Editor, Médecins Sans Frontières/Doctors Without Borders, New York, NY
A major challenge in Haiti in the aftermath of the January 12th earthquake has been, and will continue to be, the management of infected wounds. Untreated wounds have progressed to gangrene and sepsis among [...]
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Guest post by Ruby Siddiqui and Jane Greig, Epidemiologists, Manson Unit, Médecins Sans Frontières, London, UK
Today sees the publication in PLoS Medicine of an article by Médecins sans Frontières (MSF) on quality control in laboratory work in the resource-poor settings where the agency works. Last week MSF published an article on rapid diagnostic tests in [...]
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Guest blog by Dr. Greg Elder, Deputy Operations Manager, and Oliver Yun, Medical Editor, Médecins Sans Frontières/Doctors Without Borders, New York, NY
Médecins Sans Frontières/Doctors Without Borders (MSF) has been working in Haiti since 1991 and, until the devastating January 12 earthquake, had three medical structures running in the capital, Port-au-Prince: the 60-bed Trinité Trauma Center [...]
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