This is a big publishing week for PLoS Medicine, with an editorial call for papers, two additional articles and a new collection…
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General This Week in PLoS Medicine: Call for papers; Distance to treatment; Delphi technique; malERARead more
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Global Health No Health Without Research – World Health Report for 2012Read more
Guest blog by Tikki Pang, Director, Research Policy & Cooperation, World Health Organization. “I see no way out of our vicious cycle…
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General Joint Statement of the malERA Leadership Council on Supplement in PLoS MedicineRead more
We’re delighted to feature on our blog a joint statement from members of the malERA Leadership Council, voicing their support for publication…
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General malERA Supplement: a research agenda for malaria eradicationRead more
Today we’re delighted to publish a Collection of 12 reviews, comprising three reflective pieces and nine research and development agendas, as part…
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Conference news Cuban doctors: overlooked champions of the health and human resources crisisRead more
Dr Rhona MacDonald, freelance editor (rhonamacdonald@gmail.com) This week, the Second Global Forum on health and human resources takes place in Bangkok, Thailand…
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Public Fiery Serpents among the PeopleRead more
Guest blog by Gavin Yamey, lead, Evidence to Policy Initiative, Global Health Group, University of California San Francisco The camera pans across…
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Global Health Monitoring International Diplomacy and Global HealthRead more
This month’s Health Diplomacy Monitor—a regular, open access compendium of key international negotiations that have a significant impact on global health—includes a…
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General This Week in PLoS Medicine: Correcting mortality estimates in ART; Standardized screening rule for TB; Impact of eHealthRead more
This week, four new articles were published in PLoS Medicine, including a perspective piece. Matthias Egger and colleagues present a nomogram to…
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Access Withdrawal of journal access is a wake-up call for researchers in the developing worldRead more
Guest blog by Leslie Chan, Barbara Kirsop, Subbiah Arunachalam (Trustees for the Electronic Publishing Trust for Development) The news (see http://www.bmj.com/content/342/bmj.d196 )…
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Access What next for HINARI in an open-access world?Read more
Consider, if you would for a moment, how one might invent a way of disseminating important information in the 21st century−across a…
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General This Week in PLoS Medicine: H1N1 vaccine effectiveness; Reducing deaths from birth asphyxiaRead more
Two new articles were published this week in PLoS Medicine: Results from a European multicentre case-control study by Marta Valenciano and colleagues…
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General Sharing research data: funders of health research come togetherRead more
As medical research grows ever more complex, and as the public comes to expect more and more from medicine and science, the…