Guest blog by Angela Ni, Fulbright Fellow 2010-2011, Yunnan, China (angela.ni@fulbrightmail.org) In China, the past 30 years of economic growth has lifted…
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General Where are water and sanitation in China’s rural healthcare reform?Read more
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General This Week in PLoS Medicine: Predicting outcomes of IVF; Neonatal health at the community levelRead more
Happy new year! Two new articles have been published for our first issue of 2011! Using the HFEA database of all 144,018…
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General Candy-charity partnerships are “sugar washing”Read more
Just after Halloween this year, The Lancet called out UNICEF Canada for partnering with a candy company, Cadbury, whose high fat, high…
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General This Week in PLoS Medicine: TB in prisons; WHO & HIV; HIV Biomarkers; Guidelines in health systemsRead more
In the final publishing week before the new year, PLoS Medicine publishes 5 new articles, including a research article on tuberculosis in…
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General This Week in PLoS Medicine: Drug resistance in Ethiopia; Preterm births in Mexico; Nuclear receptors in lung cancerRead more
Three new articles were published this week in PLoS Medicine. Jeremy Keenan and colleagues report their cluster-randomized clinical trial in Ethiopia that…
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General Can We Count on Global Health Estimates?Read more
This blog by Jocalyn Clark is cross-posted from the Healthy Newborn Network, an international resource that connects advocates around the world and…
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General This Week in PLoS Medicine: Secondhand smoke; Medicaid smoking cessation; Mobile apps for health monitoringRead more
Three new articles make their way to the PLoS Medicine homepage this week. Two articles are related to the health damages of…
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General Cold hands: remember Raynaud’s diseaseRead more
Dr Rhona MacDonald, freelance editor, (rhonamacdonald@gmail.com) As all of northern Europe struggles through a continuous cold snap, many much relied on infrastructures…
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Access New European policy – greater transparency and access to data from drug regulatorRead more
The European Medicines Agency (EMA – the public body carrying out the centralised review and approval of new medicines across Europe) has…
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General MSF: World AIDS Day – Flying in the face of evidenceRead more
Guest blog by Nathan Ford, who has worked with Medicine Sans Frontieres (MSF) since 1998 and is currently the medical coordinator for…
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General This Week in PLoS Medicine: Debate on the Future of Global Health Estimates; Retinal Microvasculature and Air PollutionRead more
This is a large publishing week for PLoS Medicine. Our editorial sets the stage for a series of articles debating the future…
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General The Emerging—and Diverging—Countries of AfricaRead more
Guest blog by Gavin Yamey, lead, Evidence to Policy Initiative, Global Health Group, University of California San Francisco Here’s a quick thought…