I’m on a listserve that discusses many mundane issues that IRBs have to grapple with, but this week the listserve was grappling…
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General When research is tortureRead more
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Global Health A new paradigm for global health?Read more
A couple of weeks ago I attended one of the lectures in the Edinburgh Enlightenment series. This lecture was given by Lord…
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General Open access in PolandRead more
Last week I attended a conference on Open Access in Poland. The meeting, hosted by the Polish Academy of Sciences, came at…
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General A different type of malaria mapRead more
Last night I gave a talk on Healthy Journalism for the Patient Information Forum, hosted at the Wellcome Trust. I had a…
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Peer review Peer review at PLoS MedicineRead more
We’ve just put up a page thanking everyone who advised us as either academic editors or reviewers in 2009. We receive upwards…
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General Measuring the right outcomes in clinical trialsRead more
Astonishingly, for most clinical areas there is no general consensus on what outcomes should be reported in clinical trials. Alhough one speciality…
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General Time for registration of observational research?Read more
Much progress has been made over the past few years in ensuring that clinical trials are better designed, reported and published. Initiatives…
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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 NIH responds to PharmedOut open letter calling for more research on ethicsRead more
The following was received in response to this letter, which PLoS was one of the co-signers of: Dear Dr. Fugh-Berman: Thank you…
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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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Policy Planned Ohio execution violates Declaration of HelsinkiRead more
Update December 10th: A sorry update to this post is that despite the many groups questioning the ethics and legality of the…
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General New guidelines on retractions are now available from COPE – the Committee on Publication EthicsRead more
New guidelines on retractions are now available from COPE – the Committee on Publication Ethics. The guidelines were written by Liz Wager…