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 Can We Count on Global Health Estimates?Read more
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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, ([email protected]) 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…
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MSF MSF: Cholera epidemics: emergency response in Haiti and beyondRead more
Guest blog by David M. Olson, MD, Medical Advisor, Médecins Sans Frontières/Doctors Without Borders (MSF), New York, NY, USA This week I…
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General This Week in PLoS Medicine: Costs & funding for public health; Path to universal health coverageRead more
Three new articles were published this week in PLoS Medicine, focusing on funding and policy analysis. An economic analysis of different screening…
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General Chocolate, water pipes and PLoS Medicine – report from the Cambridge Humanitarian CentreRead more
A couple of days ago I attended the launch of a report – Cambridge and International development – published by the Humanitarian…
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Policy MDG 7c: The Sanitation Goal Is in the ToiletRead more
Maggie Brown, MS, ELS is Senior Production Editor at PLoS 2.6 billion people around the world have no access to “improved sanitation.&rdquo…
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General This Week in PLoS Medicine: Water and Sanitation; Improving definitions; Road crashes and traumaRead more
This is a big publishing week for PLoS Medicine, as we publish the final two pieces of our collection on Water and…