The Centre for Reviews and Dissemination, based at the University of York in the UK, has just launched a new initiative for…
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Policy Reducing bias in systematic reviews – a bid for registration
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General Why animal research needs reporting guidelines: improving ethics and translation
This week PLoS Biology publishes a Perspective and related editorial discussing the ARRIVE (Animal Research: Reporting In Vivo Experiments) guidelines, aimed towards…
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General Making drug and device regulation more transparent — FDA invites public comment on proposals
As part of its longstanding efforts towards providing greater accountability, the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has just released a set…
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General Quality of trial reporting: not great, but getting better slowly
Last week, updated recommendations for reporting randomized trials — the CONSORT 2010 guidelines — were published in PLoS Medicine and other medical…
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General The numbers are the numbers: Avandia, heart attacks, and leaked messages
A recently released report from the US Senate Finance Committee led by Senator Charles Grassley (who has also queried several medical journals…
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Access What does it mean to deidentify data?
Many journals, including PLoS Medicine, have policies regarding the availability of datasets underpinning published research findings. For example, PLoS journal policies require…
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General StaRs of child health
What are the problems with paediatric trials, and how can we make the evidence base in child health bigger, more reliable, and…
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General China-UK Research Ethics Report
A recent report published by the UK Medical Research Council focusses on the frameworks for regulation of biomedical research in the Peoples&rsquo…
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Access Supporting systematic reviews
Yesterday, PLoS Medicine – along with several other journals, Annals of Internal Medicine, BMJ, Journal of Clinical Epidemiology, and Open Medicine &ndash…
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General EU drugs industry antitrust report out…
The European Commission posted yesterday its report of the pharmaceutical industry from an 18 month investigation of drug industry practices in relation…
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General Psychiatric bible bashing
The somewhat secretive ins and outs of the American Psychiatric Association’s DSM-V (Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders V) seem to…
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General Comparative Effectiveness Research – what are the ingredients for success?
A review by Kalipso Chalkidou and colleagues published in the Milbank Quarterly compares the characteristics of health technology assessment entities in the…