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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General Healthier Water, Healthier PeopleRead more
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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 Visceral leishmaniasis outbreak in SudanRead more
I read yesterday about an outbreak of visceral leishmaniasis (VL) — also known as kala-azar — in Southern Sudan on the Doctors…
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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…
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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, [email protected] 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…