So peer review is broken, according to a recent piece in The Scientist: it’s slow, biased, arbitrary and overloads the community. But…
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General Does post-publication peer review work?Read more
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General This Week in PLoS Medicine: MSMs risk behavior; IT & heart health; Social inequalities in cardiovascular careRead more
Three new articles were published this week in PLoS Medicine covering risk behaviors, assessment and treatment in varying populations. In a randomized…
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General False economy: how the tobacco industry is distorting Africa’s economyRead more
If you want to get a sideways look at the damage caused by the tobacco industry – apart from its direct health…
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General Poor children at risk on the roadsRead more
I was rather taken aback with some of the coverage today of a news story that children who live in poorer areas…
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General The worsening situation in PakistanRead more
Dr Rhona MacDonald, Freelance editor, rhonamacdonald@gmail.com As I am sure you are aware, the situation in Pakistan has deteriorated almost beyond belief…
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General This Week in PLoS Medicine: Verbal autopsy assessment; Bed-netting malaria prevention; Hidden costs of misconductRead more
Three new articles published in PLoS Medicine this week deal with policy and practice in a variety of medical questions. Peter Byass…
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General MSF-UK’s annual Scientific Day 2010Read more
Last month Ginny and I had an interesting day out of the office at a conference run by Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF). It…
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General Personalised genetic testing: when will oversight catch up with technology?Read more
The announcement yesterday that University of California, Berkeley was dropping its original idea of individually analysing genetic information from students joining one…
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General Russian fires could result in a global disaster—another food crisisRead more
Dr Rhona MacDonald, Freelance editor, rhonamacdonald@gmail.com As torrential rain and floods continue to devastate Pakistan, severe wild fires are rampaging across Russia…
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General This Week in PLoS Medicine: Mathematical model on malaria; Integrase inhibitors and HIV; Touch-screen eHealthRead more
This week saw three new articles published in PLoS Medicine: Azra Ghani and colleagues assess whether the currently available tools for reducing…
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General Mumbai’s malaria outbreakRead more
Dr Rhona MacDonald, Freelance editor, rhonamacdonald@gmail.com Last month’s monsoons brought a rapid increase of Plasmodium vivax malaria to the Indian city of…
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General DFID launches public consultation to inform UK malaria business planRead more
More than 100 years on from the discovery, by British surgeon Ronald Ross, that mosquitoes transmit malaria parasites to humans, DFID (Department…