New articles in PLoS Medicine this week include research on the community-based MEMA kwa Vijana (“Good things for young people”) intensive sexual…
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General This week in PLoS Medicine: “Good Things for Young People”; Getting STRICTA about guidelines for acupuncture trials; and moreRead more
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General This Week in PLoS Medicine: C-reactive protein in coronary artery disease; Secondary prevention of suicide; challenges for the pandemicRead more
Three articles are published in PLoS Medicine this week. A systematic review and meta-analysis by Harry Hemingway and colleagues looks at the…
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General This week in PLoS Medicine: Adult obesity; Assessing child development; Breast cancer; and more!Read more
Read the new papers published in PLoS Medicine this week, including five Research Articles: The first genotyped children from the ALSPAC birth…
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General This week in PLoS Medicine: NTDs; H1N1 in Vietnam; Suicide risk for seniorsRead more
Read the new papers published in PLoS Medicine this week, including a Research Article that analyzes the initial outbreak, attempts at containment…
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General Making drug and device regulation more transparent — FDA invites public comment on proposalsRead more
As part of its longstanding efforts towards providing greater accountability, the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has just released a set…
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General Mother-to-child HIV transmission – stigma barrier to progressRead more
Guest blog by Ditte A. Søndergaard1, Simone C. Hald1,3, Jeffrey V. Lazarus2,3 1 Department of Public Health, Copenhagen University, Copenhagen, Denmark 2…
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General MSF: Access to medicines must be preserved and improved at the World Health AssemblyRead more
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 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. [email protected] 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…