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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Conference news Focusing on diversity and representation under the ‘big tent’ of the ASHG 2020 meeting
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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 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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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…
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15th Anniversary 15 Years of a Movement for Open Access Medical Science: PLOS Medicine 15th Anniversary
To kick off the celebration of PLOS Medicine‘s 15th Anniversary, Specialty Consulting Editor Sanjay Basu discusses the journal’s contributions to scientific communication and…
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Editorial Citizens’ voices for better health and social policies
Representatives from Karolinska Institutet, the Knowledge to Policy Center and the McMaster Health Forum discuss the importance of citizen engagement in policy-making…
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Editorial Better medicine through machine learning: What’s real, and what’s artificial?
Note: This Editorial is appearing in Speaking of Medicine ahead of print. The final version will appear in PLOS Medicine at the…