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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General Tracking how medical and science news stories developRead more
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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…
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General Scientific diplomacy: new idea but the same old political agendaRead more
Rhona MacDonald, Freelance editor, ([email protected]) We have all heard of political diplomacy and thanks to a recent series in PLoS Medicine, now…
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General This week in PLoS Medicine: Pay-for-Performance: Location, Location, Location; Novel approaches to R & D; Maternal health policy in AfricaRead more
Three new items were published this week at PLoS Medicine, starting with an article by Jan Blustein and colleagues examining the associations…
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General Why animal research needs reporting guidelines: improving ethics and translationRead more
This week PLoS Biology publishes a Perspective and related editorial discussing the ARRIVE (Animal Research: Reporting In Vivo Experiments) guidelines, aimed towards…
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General Medical schools begin to reject industry funding for continuing medical educationRead more
A New York Times article on June 23rd, Debate Over Industry Role in Educating Doctors, discussed the thorny issue of drug and…
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General This week in PLoS Medicine: Incidence and reproduction numbers of pertussis; The prevalence and drug-sensitivity of TB in patients in South African hospitalsRead more
As well as the series on mother, newborn and child health in sub-Saharan Africa launched on Monday, this week saw the publication…
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Global Health Global burden of Echinococcosis just publishedRead more
Back in November of last year I attended a meeting convened by the Foodborne Disease Burden Epidemiology Reference Group (FERG) which aims…
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Maternal Newborn and Child Health Time to Deliver: Series on Maternal, Newborn and Child Health in sub-Saharan AfricaRead more
In June PLoS Medicine launched a series on maternal, newborn and child health in sub-Saharan Africa. Two Policy Forums and an Editorial…
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General Ghostwriting and its wider ramificationsRead more
With a different hat on I write and tweet on the Publication Ethics blog of the Committee on Publication Ethics (COPE). I…