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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Conference news Global Congress on Verbal Autopsy in 2011 open for abstract submissionRead more
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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 ([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…