Ginny Barbour, Chief Editor PLoS Medicine, and Neil Pakenham-Walsh, Coordinator, HIFA2015 and CHILD2015 Co-director, Global Healthcare Information Network A few weeks ago…
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Access Open Access and HIFA2015 – where next?
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Access Announcing PLoS Currents: Disasters
Today, there are ever more pressing needs for up-to-date information to be quickly available and easily accessible. This has never been more…
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General #eyesonsyria or how to get eyes on the unwatchable
It’s easy to get overwhelmed by all the news hurtling at us today – especially when we are all rather inured to…
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Access PLoS/HIFA2015 Webinar, 28th March 2012: Can Open Access publishing provide Healthcare Information For All by 2015?
You are invited to attend the first HIFA2015 Webinar, supported by PLoS, the Public Library of Science, a HIFA2015 Supporting Organisation and…
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General Rinderpest: the puzzling story of a plague that is no longer a news story
Last week, to surprisingly little coverage, the World Organisation for Animal Health (OIE) officially announced that rinderpest had become the first animal…
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Conference news HIFA2015 Conference: lack of access to healthcare information is lethal
Earlier this week I attended the first Conference of the HIFA2015 campaign at the BMA in London. In true reflection of the…
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General A City of Joy in the midst of hell
In 2009 we published a harrowing and compelling paper on the work done by the Panzi hospital in Democratic Republic of Congo…
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Neglected Diseases Poverty, Infections and Inequality in the World’s Richest Country
In a compelling editorial published this week in PLoS Neglected Tropical Diseases Peter Hotez draws attention to the infections of poverty as…
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General Open Access: going the last few miles
Two articles in this week’s PLoS Medicine on open access discuss not only how important true open access (as opposed to just…
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General Is funding into Neglected Diseases being misdirected?
Yesterday I attended the launch of the third G-FINDER report on Global Funding of Research and Development into Neglected Diseases. The report…
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General Emergency Medicine Australasia no longer accepting drug company advertising
The journal, Emergency Medicine Australasia, has just announced it will no longer accept advertising from drug companies. In an editorial announcing the…
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Access What next for HINARI in an open-access world?
Consider, if you would for a moment, how one might invent a way of disseminating important information in the 21st century−across a…