Last week, updated recommendations for reporting randomized trials — the CONSORT 2010 guidelines — were published in PLoS Medicine and other medical…
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General Quality of trial reporting: not great, but getting better slowlyRead more
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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 Ensuring Ethical Animal Research: How do PLoS journals measure up?Read more
Guest Blog by Janani Krishnaswami, PLoS Medicine Intern Animal research enables advancement in disease management, and saving or prolonging the lives of…
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Access What does it mean to deidentify data?Read more
Many journals, including PLoS Medicine, have policies regarding the availability of datasets underpinning published research findings. For example, PLoS journal policies require…
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General My 12 Minutes Speaking in the House of CommonsRead more
Guest blog by Gavin Yamey, San Francisco Lead, Evidence to Policy initiative (E2Pi), Global Health Group, University of California San Francisco. PLoS…
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Global Health Can the world afford to be run by countries? Final thoughts from COP-15Read more
Guest blog by Peter Byass, Director of Umeå Centre for Global Health Research, Sweden By now everybody knows that the outcome of…
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General Snowstorms in CopenhagenRead more
Guest blog by Peter Byass, Director of Umeå Centre for Global Health Research, Sweden Back in Copenhagen today, there were heavy snowstorms…
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Global Health Climate and health – reporting from CopenhagenRead more
Guest blog by Peter Byass, Director of Umeå Centre for Global Health Research, Sweden As a health researcher, naturally I’ve been looking…
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Global Health COP15, 2 days in: a health researchers perspectiveRead more
Guest blog by Stig Wall, Professor of Epidemiology, Umeå University and Editor of Global Health Action Two days have passed at the…
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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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Global Health On the way to Copenhagen for the UN Climate ConferenceRead more
Guest blog by Peter Byass, Director of Umeå Centre for Global Health Research, Sweden. Along with many others around the world, some…
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General Climate change supplement from open access journal Global Health ActionRead more
With the upcoming UN Climate change conference COP-15 almost upon us, the editors of the open access journal Global Health Action have…