Guest blog by Gavin Yamey, lead, Evidence to Policy Initiative, Global Health Group, University of California San Francisco Here’s a quick thought…
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General The Emerging—and Diverging—Countries of AfricaRead more
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General Can the Republicans Repeal Health Reform?Read more
Guest blog by Gavin Yamey, lead, Evidence to Policy Initiative, Global Health Group, University of California San Francisco, Last week’s US mid-term…
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Policy Publication Duty for big Pharma?Read more
Guest blog by Benjamin P. Geisler, MD MPH, Senior Consultant, originally posted here A recent case of publication bias has fuelled the…
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Neglected Diseases New treatments for Visceral LeishmaniasisRead more
Guest blog by Dr Manica Balasegaram, a physician who is the head of the leishmaniasis clinical programme at the Drugs for Neglected…
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General Women and malaria research in the 21st centuryRead more
Guest blog by Clara Menendez*, Marita Troye-Blomberg, Francine Ntoumi, Esperança EJ Sevene, Azucena Bardaji, Myriam Arevalo and Rose GF Leke [*MENENDEZ@clinic.ub.es] Since…
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Conference news Maternal mortality, human rights, and accountabilityRead more
Dr Rhona MacDonald, freelance editor, rhonamacdonald@gmail.com On the bus on the way to the International Roundtable on maternal mortality, human rights, and…
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General The worsening situation in PakistanRead more
Dr Rhona MacDonald, Freelance editor, rhonamacdonald@gmail.com As I am sure you are aware, the situation in Pakistan has deteriorated almost beyond belief…
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General Russian fires could result in a global disaster—another food crisisRead more
Dr Rhona MacDonald, Freelance editor, rhonamacdonald@gmail.com As torrential rain and floods continue to devastate Pakistan, severe wild fires are rampaging across Russia…
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General Mumbai’s malaria outbreakRead more
Dr Rhona MacDonald, Freelance editor, rhonamacdonald@gmail.com Last month’s monsoons brought a rapid increase of Plasmodium vivax malaria to the Indian city of…
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General Pakistan floods: medical coordination is essentialRead more
Dr Rhona MacDonald, Freelance editor (rmacdonald@gmail.com). COI: RM is the honorary executive director of MCAI As more news about the devastating floods…
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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 The importance of emergency health careRead more
Dr Rhona MacDonald, Freelance Editor rhonamacdonald@gmail.com According to a report just published by the Nuffield Trust, the number of emergency admissions to…