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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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
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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…
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General When research is tortureRead more
I’m on a listserve that discusses many mundane issues that IRBs have to grapple with, but this week the listserve was grappling…
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General This week in PLoS Medicine: Mapping the malaria burden; thrombophilia and pregnancy complicationsRead more
Two articles have been published by PLoS Medicine this week, including Simon Hay and colleagues’ study which estimates the global burden of…