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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MSF World Food Day – is weaning food an essential medicine?Read more
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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 ([email protected]) “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…
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General Women and malaria research in the 21st centuryRead more
Guest blog by Clara Menendez*, Marita Troye-Blomberg, Francine Ntoumi, Esperança EJ Sevene, Azucena Bardaji, Myriam Arevalo and Rose GF Leke [*[email protected]] Since…
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General This Week in PLoS Medicine: Integrated management of malaria; CRP & chronic inflammationRead more
PLoS Medicine published four new papers this week, including Health in Action and Policy Forum pieces. You can read more about our…
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Policy The MDGs should be replaced with something betterRead more
Dr Rhona MacDonald, freelance editor, ([email protected]) The MDG Review Summit, or more precisely, The High level Plenary Meeting of the General Assembly…
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Peer review New submission and peer review system for PLoS MedicineRead more
Dear all, Today we launched a new submission and peer-review system for PLoS Medicine. The system is called PLoS Editorial Manager and…
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General This Week in PLoS Medicine: Shanghai lifestyle & health; Who’s writing medical journalism; Urban advantage & maternal healthRead more
This week saw three new articles published in PLoS Medicine on complex issues ranging from personal choices on health to the perception…