By contributing authors Amy Tan, MD MSc(Pall Med) CCFP(PC), FCFP, and Alexandra Dobie, MSW, LICSW, APHSW-C Content warning: This post contains vignettes…
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Global Health Beyond Cultural Safety in Palliative Care: How to be an Anti-Racist Palliative Care Clinician
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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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Global Health From Project to Protocol: MSF research in practice
As we countdown to MSF Scientific Days 2020, the MSF scientific days team examine how new medical practice in humanitarian contexts…
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15th Anniversary Charting the evolution of diabetes research and care: from epidemiology to precision medicine: PLOS Medicine 15th Anniversary
In celebration of our 15 Year Anniversary, Academic Editor Ronald CW Ma highlights advancements published in PLOS Medicine in diabetes research and…
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General The fight is not over: making the case for burden sharing instead of burden shifting to keep the HIV and TB response on track
Dr Mit Philips, Kerstin Åkerfeldt and Dr Maria Guevara from Médecins Sans Frontières describe the global financial gap that could hinder the progress made in…
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General A Focused Intervention: The Provider’s Role in Firearm Violence Prevention
Update: There’s a new educational video for health care providers from the What You Can Do initiative, Preventing Firearm-Related Injury and Death: A…
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Access Malaria Prevention: Tackling the Gaps in Reaching the Hardest-to-Reach
Estrella Lasry, Tropical Diseases Advisor at Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF), describes the challenges of combating malaria in populations isolated by geography or violence…
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Conference news Can Hippocrates prevent overdiagnosis?
Jack O’Sullivan fills us in on highlights and buzz from this year’s Preventing Overdiagnosis conference in Barcelona. Hippocrates’ infamous oath echoed around…
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Clinical Trials Hunting for Huntington’s Disease Treatments in the New Millennium
Karen Ring, of the California Institute for Regenerative Medicine, gives an update from the HD CARE symposium at UC Irvine. “Over the…