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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Conference news Big Food learns from Big TobaccoRead more
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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…
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General A different type of malaria mapRead more
Last night I gave a talk on Healthy Journalism for the Patient Information Forum, hosted at the Wellcome Trust. I had a…
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General Talking harm reduction with Gerry Stimson, executive director of the IHRARead more
The International Harm Reduction Association (IHRA) are hosting their annual conference in Liverpool, UK, from April 25th -April 29th and I’m looking…
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General PLoS Medicine Series on Global Health DiplomacyRead more
In April PLoS Medicine launched a series on Global Health Diplomacy examining the growing interface between foreign policy and global health. Scholars…
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General This week in PLoS Medicine: Does foreign policy help or hinder global health?; and more!Read more
Read the new papers published in PLoS Medicine this week, including three Research Articles. The first article finds that better family planning…
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General What can science do about malaria?Read more
I just read a fascinating and provocative blog titled ‘Malaria: Can science cripple development?’ by Bart Knols on the TH!NK3: Developing world…
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Mental Health New systematic review identifies gap in treatment for epilepsy in LAMICRead more
A paper just published in the WHO bulletin draws further attention to the global disparity in caring for those with epilepsy between…