In the latest installment of the Speaking of Medicine series of Q&A blog posts, we hear from Vikram Patel, one of the…
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General Q&A with Vikram Patel – guest editor of the PLoS Medicine Global Mental Health Practice series
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General Q&A with Vikram Patel – guest editor of the PLoS Medicine Global Mental Health Practice series
In the latest installment of the Speaking of Medicine series of Q&A blog posts, we hear from Vikram Patel, one of the…
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Big Food Q&A with David Stuckler – guest editor of PLoS Medicine series on Big Food
Following the launch of the PLoS Medicine series on Big Food and the publication of the first three articles in the series…
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Policy Celebrate World Environment Day with two new analyses of the public health role in climate change
Tuesday June 5th was World Environment Day, an annual event run by the United Nations Environment Programme, with the aim of bringing…
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General Conflicts of interest and DSM-5: the media reaction
The fifth edition of the American Psychiatric Association’s Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (DSM-5) will be published next year, but…
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General Shift Work, Diet and Type 2 Diabetes: The Media Response
In December, PLoS Medicine published a paper by An Pan and colleagues, which focused on shift work and type 2 diabetes. The…
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General World Pneumonia Day: Saturday 12th November
Pneumonia kills more children under five than AIDS, malaria and measles combined – one child every 20 seconds, to be exact. Many…
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General PLoS Medicine in the media: August 2011
Several PLoS Medicine papers have made world media headlines over the past month. Smoking in Movies On 23rd August, PLoS Medicine published…
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General Energy Density, Portion Size, and Eating Occasions: the media response
At the end of June, PLoS Medicine published an obesity-related paper by Kiyah Duffey and Barry Popkin, which caused a big media…
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General Complicity of medical personnel in torture at Guantánamo Bay: how the media responded
As you may be aware, just over a month ago PLoS Medicine published research by Vincent Iacopino and Stephen Xenakis that reviewed…