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 Withdrawal of journal access is a wake-up call for researchers in the developing worldRead more
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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…
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General Where are water and sanitation in China’s rural healthcare reform?Read more
Guest blog by Angela Ni, Fulbright Fellow 2010-2011, Yunnan, China ([email protected]) In China, the past 30 years of economic growth has lifted…
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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, ([email protected]) As all of northern Europe struggles through a continuous cold snap, many much relied on infrastructures…