More than half of the world’s population is at risk of helminthiases (parasitic worms), and hundreds of millions of people are currently…
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Collections New PLoS Neglected Tropical Diseases Collection Charts a Course for Elimination of HelminthiasesRead more
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General Dear Doctor: If you take credit for a ghostwritten article, you could be suedRead more
Ghostwriting is not only an unethical practice, but it may also constitute legal fraud, according to an article by University of Toronto…
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General UNAIDS’ OutlookRead more
Dr Rhona MacDonald, Freelance Editor rhonamacdonald@gmail.com As the world the gears up for the XVIII International AIDS Conference in Vienna (a country…
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General This week in PLoS Medicine: “Good Things for Young People”; Getting STRICTA about guidelines for acupuncture trials; and moreRead more
New articles in PLoS Medicine this week include research on the community-based MEMA kwa Vijana (“Good things for young people”) intensive sexual…
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General Guest authors are frequent in junior doctors’ dissertationsRead more
On the COPE blog I just put up a short post on how, even early in their medical careers when preparing dissertations…
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General Can society handle the “mind-boggling” amount of genetic data now available?Read more
Mark Walport, the head of the UK’s Wellcome Trust, was giving interviews earlier this week on a number of news programmes in…
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General International Health Electives: “A Delicate Balance”Read more
Today I had lunch with Paul Drain, physician and lead author of a new guidebook to working in global health, called “Caring…
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Access PLoS Medicine’s 5th anniversary competitionRead more
PLoS Medicine turns 5 years old on October 19th, 2009. To highlight the crucial importance of open access in medical publishing we’re…
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General Daily Click: Henry Wellcome’s House of WaxRead more
Guest blog by Katrina Ray, a PhD student at Imperial College, working as an intern at PLoS Medicine Had an unsuccessful night…
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Access “Why Open Access Matters to Public Health in Africa” – A talk in NairobiRead more
As previous posts have mentioned, Gavin Yamey is currently on a Kaiser Foundation-funded fellowship in global reporting in Sudan and East Africa…
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General PLoS Medicine’s Daily ClickRead more
One of the regular features of our new blog will be the PLoS Medicine daily click – our daily clicks are a…
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