In the closing issue during October we published six articles, including an editorial and two perspectives. In this month’s editorial, the PLoS…
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General This Week in PLoS Medicine: Transparency in medical publishing; Toxicity in pesticides; Conflicts of interest & moreRead more
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Conference news Global Congress on Verbal Autopsy in 2011 open for abstract submissionRead more
The first Global Congress on Verbal Autopsy methods and applications will be held in Bali, Indonesia, in February 2011. This neglected area…
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Policy WHO invites countries to have foodborne disease burden assessedRead more
Almost a year ago I wrote a short post highlighting the work of the FERG (Foodborne Disease Burden Epidemiology Reference Group) at…
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General This Week in PLoS Medicine: Pharmaceutical promotion’s effects; Intracerebral haemorrhage treatmentRead more
Two articles were published this week in PLoS Medicine Geoff Spurling and colleagues report findings of a systematic review looking at the…
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Conference news Ethics of new developments in personalised healthcareRead more
A new report released yesterday by the Nuffield Council on Bioethics explores the impact, and ethical consequences, of personalised healthcare in a…
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MSF World Food Day – is weaning food an essential medicine?Read more
Guest blog by Susan Shepherd, MD, Nutrition Coordinator, Médecins Sans Frontières/Doctors Without Borders (MSF), New York, NY, USA Susan Shepherd provides her…
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General This Week in PLoS Medicine: Gastroenteritis economics; Prenatal treatment of toxoplasmosis; Genomic medicine & public healthRead more
Three new articles were published this week in PLoS Medicine: Stephen Freedman and colleagues performed a cost analysis of the routine administration…
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General This Week in PLoS Medicine: Burden of pneumococcal disease; Field guide for human research ethics; Reflections on H1N1 responseRead more
This week saw three new articles published in PLoS Medicine, along with some interesting supporting information. Hope Johnson and colleagues calculate the…
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MSF Global funds needed to prevent mother-to-child transmission of HIVRead more
Guest blog by Ann Akesson, MD, Medical Coordinator, Malawi, Médecins Sans Frontières/Doctors Without Borders (MSF) On October 4 and 5, at the…
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General China’s water and sanitation crisisRead more
Guest blog by Angela Ni, Fulbright Fellow 2010-2011, Yunnan, China (angela.ni@fulbrightmail.org) “Clean water should be recognized as a human right,” wrote the…
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Neglected Diseases New treatments for Visceral LeishmaniasisRead more
Guest blog by Dr Manica Balasegaram, a physician who is the head of the leishmaniasis clinical programme at the Drugs for Neglected…
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Neglected Diseases Curing policy at Policy CuresRead more
Policy Cures, led by Director Mary Moran, has relaunched as an independent organization. I went to the relaunch at the London School…