PLoS Medicine is 5 this week

It’s five years this week  since PLoS Medicine‘s inaugural issue. We’ve taken this opportunity to reflect on the past five years and what the future holds, both for medical publishing and the publishing landscape as a whole. Two editorials this year lay out our thoughts in more depth; the April 2009 editorial, A Medical Journal [...]

Second Coming of the Sanitarians? Podcasts with two PLoS Medicine Editorial Board Members

To coincide with the announcement of PLoS Medicine’s revised editorial vision, we commissioned two podcasts in which two members of the PLoS Medicine Editorial Board were interviewed.
In the eight-minute podcast below Bruce Lanphear, Professor of Children’s Environmental Health at Simon Fraser University, discusses how medical journals have become overfocused on drug trials and reliant [...]