Dr Rhona MacDonald, freelance editor, [email protected] On the bus on the way to the International Roundtable on maternal mortality, human rights, and…

This week PLoS Medicine published an unprecedented analysis of the Wyeth Ghostwriting Archive – a collection of documents uncovered during recent litigation…

Maggie Brown, MS, ELS is Senior Production Editor at PLoS The theme this year is “Responding to Global Changes: The Water Quality…

Maggie Brown, MS, ELS is Senior Production Editor at PLoS Healthier Water, Healthier People: An Approach to Improving Water Quality is a…

I recently got alerted to this great post from R. W. Donnell, an internist in Arkansas who posts as Notes from Dr…

Guest blog by Martin McShane, Director of strategic planning for NHS Lincolnshire Martin settled into his train-seat. He checked the itinerary he…

I read yesterday about an outbreak of visceral leishmaniasis (VL) — also known as kala-azar — in Southern Sudan on the Doctors…

So peer review is broken, according to a recent piece in The Scientist: it’s slow, biased, arbitrary and overloads the community. But…

Three new articles were published this week in PLoS Medicine covering risk behaviors, assessment and treatment in varying populations. In a randomized…

If you want to get a sideways look at the damage caused by the tobacco industry – apart from its direct health…

I was rather taken aback with some of the coverage today of a news story that children who live in poorer areas…

Dr Rhona MacDonald, Freelance editor, [email protected] As I am sure you are aware, the situation in Pakistan has deteriorated almost beyond belief…