Guest blog by Dr. Tido von Schoen-Angerer, Executive Director, Access to Essential Medicines Campaign, Médecins Sans Frontières/Doctors Without Borders (MSF), Geneva, Switzerland…
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General MSF: Access to medicines must be preserved and improved at the World Health AssemblyRead more
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General Open access in PolandRead more
Last week I attended a conference on Open Access in Poland. The meeting, hosted by the Polish Academy of Sciences, came at…
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General This week in PLoS Medicine: Long term studies of chronic disease; Foreign policy and global healthRead more
Read the new papers published in PLoS Medicine this week, including a Policy Forum that argues there is an urgent need for…
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General After US Health Reform—What Comes Next?Read more
Guest blog by Gavin Yamey, lead, E2Pi (Evidence-to-Policy initiative), Global Health Group, University of California San Francisco. YameyG@globalhealth.ucsf.edu The dust has now…
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General Ask PLoS Medicine: Can I republish a figure from another journal in PLoS Medicine?Read more
If the figure is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution License (CCAL), then an author does not need to obtain permission to…
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Conference news The Toronto Charter on Physical Activity: A Global Call for ActionRead more
The 3rd International Congress on Physical Activity and Public Health concluded today with the release of The Toronto Charter on Physical Activity…
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Conference news Big Food learns from Big TobaccoRead more
So I wasn’t the only one who thought it was odd that the Coca Cola Company was the lead corporate sponsor of this…
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General This week in PLoS Medicine: SARS, HPV, and InfluenzaRead more
Read the new papers published in PLoS Medicine this week, including a Research Article that reviewed the published epidemiological literature on SARS…
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Conference news 3 cents a day is not enough to halt drug-related HIV-epidemicRead more
I’m currently at the International Harm Reduction Association (IHRA) annual conference in Liverpool, UK, learning about the growing problem of injection drug…
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General This week in PLoS Medicine: Comparative effectiveness research; and more!Read more
Read the new papers published in PLoS Medicine this week, including the April Editorial in which the PLoS Medicine Editors join with…
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Access Open Access to Development Data: The World Bank’s New Open Data InitiativeRead more
Guest blog by Meghan Reidy and Marco Schäferhoff, Evidence to Policy Initiative (E2Pi), San Francisco, USA. The World Bank announced this week…
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General MSF: Is Malaria all sewn up?Read more
Guest post by Ruby Siddiqui and Martin de Smet, Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) World Malaria Day on April 25 aims to highlight…