PLOS Medicine Editors Rhona MacDonald and Amy Ross on the launch of the new PLOS Pediatric Medicine Collection and the upcoming Pediatric Academic Societies and…
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Collections Launch of the PLOS Pediatric Medicine CollectionRead more
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General GlaxoSmithKline found guilty while complicit physicians remain unscathedRead more
Last week (2 July) the pharmaceutical company GlaxoSmithkline agreed to plead guilty to criminal charges and pay a record-breaking US$3 billion in…
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Maternal Newborn and Child Health Janani Suraksha Yojana — the Indian way of improving maternal and child healthRead more
After a brief visit to New Delhi, I want to share some of the insights I have gleaned from maternal and child…
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General A potential system to protect health during armed conflictRead more
“The Iraqi Governments decision to allow doctors to carry guns to protect themselves after many doctors were killed during the US invasion…
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General WHO: what is the truth about the current situation?Read more
The Executive Board of the World Health Organization (WHO) has recently ended a three-day special session to discuss radical WHO reforms. The…
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General WASHwatch: helping to hold governments to account on their commitments to the fundamental foundations of health.Read more
“Watches” —civil society’s accountability tool—are in vogue: First, there was PEPFAR Watch, an initiative set up to hold U.S. global AIDS funding…
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General Encouraging developments for universal access to health careRead more
As outlined in the current World Health Report, Health System Financing; The path to universal coverage, three fundamental and interrelated problems restrict…
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General Violence against health-care must end: it’s a matter of life and deathRead more
“One of the first victims of war is the health-care system itself,” according to Marco Baldan, the chief war surgeon of the…
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Access Freely available review of randomised trials in child health: a public goodRead more
This year’s review booklet of Randomised Trials on Child health in Developing Countries–compiled annually to summarize the evidence on child health derived…
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General Aid access to Somalia: there must be no hidden agenda to humanitarianismRead more
In the past few days, al-Shabab, the armed faction that controls south and central Somalia, has lifted its ban on the delivery…
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General The business of vaccinesRead more
Given the current economic climate, the sight of countries trying to outbid each other in their generosity to pledge money for vaccines…
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General Sri Lanka’s killing fields: the need for the International Health Protection InitiativeRead more
“A hard-hitting investigation into the final weeks of the Sri Lankan civil war, featuring devastating video evidence of horrific war crimes”—the website…