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 torture
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Global Health A new paradigm for global health?
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 Poland
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 map
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 Medicine
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 trials
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?
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' dissertations
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 ethics
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?
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 Helsinki
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 Ethics
New guidelines on retractions are now available from COPE – the Committee on Publication Ethics. The guidelines were written by Liz Wager…