I’m currently at the 41st Union World Conference in Berlin, Germany and this morning enjoyed an interactive session debating whether walk-in testing…

Guest blog by Gavin Yamey, lead, Evidence to Policy Initiative, Global Health Group, University of California San Francisco, Last week’s US mid-term…

Maggie Brown, MS, ELS, Senior Production Editor at PLoS continues her series of posts on water and sanitation. For a huge proportion…

Guest blog by Angela Ni, Fulbright Fellow 2010-2011, Yunnan, China ([email protected]) Angela’s second instalment from the field in rural China Here in…

This week in PLoS Medicine, three new articles are published, including the beginning of our series on water and sanitation. Patrina Caldwell…

Three new articles were published this week in PLoS Medicine, including a perspective on an article from our October issue. Analysis of…

Guest blog by Benjamin P. Geisler, MD MPH, Senior Consultant, originally posted here A recent case of publication bias has fuelled the…

In the closing issue during October we published six articles, including an editorial and two perspectives. In this month’s editorial, the PLoS…

The first Global Congress on Verbal Autopsy methods and applications will be held in Bali, Indonesia, in February 2011. This neglected area…

Almost a year ago I wrote a short post highlighting the work of the FERG (Foodborne Disease Burden Epidemiology Reference Group) at…

Two articles were published this week in PLoS Medicine Geoff Spurling and colleagues report findings of a systematic review looking at the…

A new report released yesterday by the Nuffield Council on Bioethics explores the impact, and ethical consequences, of personalised healthcare in a…