Guest blog by Clara Menendez*, Marita Troye-Blomberg, Francine Ntoumi, Esperança EJ Sevene, Azucena Bardaji, Myriam Arevalo and Rose GF Leke [*MENENDEZ@clinic.ub.es] Since…
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General Women and malaria research in the 21st centuryRead more
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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, (rhonamacdonald@gmail.com) 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…
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Conference news Maternal mortality, human rights, and accountabilityRead more
Dr Rhona MacDonald, freelance editor, rhonamacdonald@gmail.com On the bus on the way to the International Roundtable on maternal mortality, human rights, and…
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General Ghostwriting Overpromoted HRTRead more
This week PLoS Medicine published an unprecedented analysis of the Wyeth Ghostwriting Archive – a collection of documents uncovered during recent litigation…
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Conference news Announcing World Water Week, 5-11 September 2010, Stockholm.Read more
Maggie Brown, MS, ELS is Senior Production Editor at PLoS The theme this year is “Responding to Global Changes: The Water Quality…
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General Healthier Water, Healthier PeopleRead more
Maggie Brown, MS, ELS is Senior Production Editor at PLoS Healthier Water, Healthier People: An Approach to Improving Water Quality is a…
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Policy What should health journalists (and bloggers) be expected to know?Read more
I recently got alerted to this great post from R. W. Donnell, an internist in Arkansas who posts as Notes from Dr…
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Book Review When people live with multiple chronic diseases: a wiki-book reviewRead more
Guest blog by Martin McShane, Director of strategic planning for NHS Lincolnshire Martin settled into his train-seat. He checked the itinerary he…
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General Does post-publication peer review work?Read more
So peer review is broken, according to a recent piece in The Scientist: it’s slow, biased, arbitrary and overloads the community. But…