When planning began for the 2020 meeting of the American Society of Tropical Medicine & Hygiene, it’s very unlikely that anyone could…
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Conference news Confronting the world’s most pressing challenges at TropMed2020
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Conference news Focusing on diversity and representation under the ‘big tent’ of the ASHG 2020 meeting
In late October, the American Society for Human Genetics (ASHG) held its annual meeting was held (October 27-30, 2020), bringing together a…
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Editorial Mental health for all: A wise investment
Across the globe, the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic has infected millions, and left even more struggling to not only cope with the fear…
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Call for Papers PLOS Medicine Special Issue: Global Child Health; From Birth to Adolescence and Beyond
The editors of PLOS Medicine together with Guest Editors Prof. Zulfiqar A. Bhutta, Prof. Kathryn M. Yount, and Prof. Quique Bassat, announce…
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Covid-19 No one-size-fits-all solution: combination of handwashing, mask-wearing and social distancing best to tackle COVID-19.
Alexandra Teslya, Thi Mui Pham, Noor Godijk, Mirjam Kretzschmar, Martin Bootsma and Ganna Rozhnova from the University Medical Center Utrecht (The Netherlands)…
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Covid-19 PLOS Pathogens’ COVID-19 response
Michael Malim and Kasturi Haldar, Editors-in-Chief of PLOS Pathogens, share the journal’s plan to accelerate and amplify COVID-19 research. Open and readily…
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Call for Papers PLOS Medicine Special Issue: Early detection and Minimal Residual Disease
The global cancer burden for 2016 has been estimated at 17.2 million new cases, with 8.9 million deaths, and the most substantial…
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Climate Change World Environment Day 2020: A wake-up call
“The foods we eat, the air we breathe, the water we drink and the climate that makes our planet habitable all come…
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Covid-19 Two storms brewing in Bangladesh
Tropical Cyclone Amphan made landfall on Wednesday, considerably weakened from its peak as a category 5 storm, but still bringing devastating winds…
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Covid-19 Will The COVID-19 Pandemic Make Clinical Research More Efficient?
Alexander T. Limkakeng and Judd E Hollander discuss how the COVID-19 pandemic is changing the way clinical research is conducted and…
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Editorial The fight for a malaria-free Bangladesh
On World Malaria Day, Kasturi Haldar, Editor-in-Chief of PLOS Pathogens, Bernard Nahlen and Neil Lobo from the University of Notre Dame…
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Call for Papers World Malaria Day 2020 • Fighting malaria while fighting the COVID-19 pandemic
The WHO estimates that in 2018, there were 228 million cases of malaria in 89 countries, with 405,000 resulting deaths. No significant…