Five new articles have been published this week in PLoS Medicine including three research articles: In a meta-analysis, Julianne Holt-Lunstad and colleagues…
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General This Week in PLoS Medicine: Social relationships and mortality; ECG repolarization patterns; Editorial on maternal and child HIV treatment & moreRead more
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Conference news MSF: Beyond Vienna: possible game-changers for scaling up optimal AIDS treatmentRead more
Guest blog by Sharonann Lynch, HIV/AIDS Policy Advisor, Campaign for Access to Essential Medicines, Médecins Sans Frontières/Doctors Without Borders (MSF), New York…
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General This Week in PLoS Medicine: Adult male circumcision in South Africa; HIV testing for children; Prevention of mother-to-child HIV transmissionRead more
Coinciding with the International AIDS Conference hosted this week in Vienna, PLoS Medicine has published three articles on HIV testing and prevention…
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General UNAIDS’ OutlookRead more
Dr Rhona MacDonald, Freelance Editor [email protected] As the world the gears up for the XVIII International AIDS Conference in Vienna (a country…
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General UNAIDS' OutlookRead more
Dr Rhona MacDonald, Freelance Editor [email protected] As the world the gears up for the XVIII International AIDS Conference in Vienna (a country…
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Policy Reducing bias in systematic reviews – a bid for registrationRead more
The Centre for Reviews and Dissemination, based at the University of York in the UK, has just launched a new initiative for…
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General This week in PLoS Medicine: Six-gene predictor in pancreatic cancer treatment; Reviews for devices; Evidence-based policy in AfricaRead more
Three new articles were published this week in PLoS Medicine: Jen Jen Yeh and colleagues developed and validated a six-gene signature in…
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General The importance of emergency health careRead more
Dr Rhona MacDonald, Freelance Editor [email protected] According to a report just published by the Nuffield Trust, the number of emergency admissions to…
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General Tracking how medical and science news stories developRead more
A colleague at PLoS ONE spotted that the Guardian are trialing a new way of reporting science and medicine stories – story…
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Policy UK government and food industry in bizarre allianceRead more
The UK government has signalled an alarming change of policy on the regulation of the food industry. As reported in the Guardian…
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General This week in PLoS Medicine: Mapping Malaria in Kenya; Malaria Parasites and Paediatric fever estimates; Funding for maternal and child health and moreRead more
This week four articles were published in PLoS Medicine, including two articles on malaria in our research section. Philip Bejon and colleagues…
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Policy Complicity or Abolition? The catastrophic consequences of good intentionsRead more
Dr Rhona MacDonald, Freelance editor ([email protected]) Would it surprise or even shock you to know that the European Commission, (http://ec.europa.eu/) individual European…