Last week, updated recommendations for reporting randomized trials — the CONSORT 2010 guidelines — were published in PLoS Medicine and other medical…
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General Quality of trial reporting: not great, but getting better slowlyRead more
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General Pandemic influenza – where do we go from here?Read more
Last Tuesday I attended a Royal Society discussion meeting titled ‘Pandemic influenza: frontiers in research‘ which I hoped might provide some answers…
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General MSF: The problem of multidrug resistant TB (MDR-TB)Read more
Guest blog by Dr. Philipp du Cros, Tuberculosis Programme Advisor, Manson Unit, Médecins Sans Frontières, London, UK. Mr S. looked calm and…
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General This week in PLoS Medicine: Preventable risk factors; CONSORT 2010; and more!Read more
Read the new papers published in PLoS Medicine this week, including a Research Article that examine the contribution of a set of…
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Access Introducing the PLoS Medicine iPhone applicationRead more
Some smart folks at the Center for Biomedical Informatics (CBMI*, a research center within the Harvard Medical School) have created a PLoS…
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General Today is World Water DayRead more
Maggie Brown, MS, ELS is Senior Production Editor at PLoS “Four of every ten people in the world do not have access…
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General Life after PLoS: From Journal Editor to AcademiaRead more
Guest blog by Gavin Yamey, MD MA MRCP, Lead, Evidence to Policy Initiative (E2Pi), Global Health Group, San Francisco, USA. Seven weeks…
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General Progress report on water and sanitation MDG releasedRead more
The report “Progress on Sanitation and Drinking-Water – 2010 Update Report“, assessing progress on MDG 7c (drinking water supply and sanitation), is…
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General This week in PLoS Medicine: Adopting Hib vaccination; COPD for non-smokersRead more
Read the new papers published in PLoS Medicine this week, including a Research Article that analyzes data from 147 countries to identify…
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Peer review Peer review at PLoS MedicineRead more
We’ve just put up a page thanking everyone who advised us as either academic editors or reviewers in 2009. We receive upwards…
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General This week in PLoS Medicine: Surgical provision in African hospitals; and moreRead more
Read the new papers published in PLoS Medicine this week, including two Research Articles that investigate surgical provision in eight district hospitals…
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Neglected Diseases Making anti-malarials from yeast: Jay Keasling and synthetic biologyRead more
Guest blog by Shah R. Ali, an MD candidate at Stanford Medical School. Malaria is getting a cutting-edge, first world scientific treatment…