Guest Blog by Janani Krishnaswami, a second-year resident in internal and preventive medicine at UCSF and Kaiser Permanente – San Francisco, and…
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General Economic recessions: Good news for health?Read more
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General This week in PLoS Medicine: HIV and noncommunicable diseases hinder the progress of poor countries’ MDGs; New treatments for stroke will benefit from genetic researchRead more
Read the new papers published in PLoS Medicine this week, including a Research Article that examines why poor countries are falling behind…
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General New Seroquel Documents available on the Drug Industry Document Archive (DIDA)Read more
Guest blog by Kim Klausner, Tobacco Digital Library Manager, University of California, San Francisco, USA The Drug Industry Document Archive (http://dida.library.ucsf.edu) has…
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General The numbers are the numbers: Avandia, heart attacks, and leaked messagesRead more
A recently released report from the US Senate Finance Committee led by Senator Charles Grassley (who has also queried several medical journals…
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General This week in PLoS Medicine: Economic burden of diabetes complications; Role of T cell count in HIV treatment; Tool to identify hospital infection clusters; and more!Read more
Read the new papers published in PLoS Medicine this week, including three Research Articles – the first finds that major diabetes complications…
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General Measuring the right outcomes in clinical trialsRead more
Astonishingly, for most clinical areas there is no general consensus on what outcomes should be reported in clinical trials. Alhough one speciality…
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General Time for registration of observational research?Read more
Much progress has been made over the past few years in ensuring that clinical trials are better designed, reported and published. Initiatives…
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Neglected Diseases MSF: More action needed to treat the deadliest neglected tropical diseasesRead more
Guest blog by Gemma Ortiz, Neglected Diseases Senior Advocacy and Liaison Officer, Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF), Barcelona, Spain Over 1 billion people…
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Conference news Progress tempered by reality of HIV control at 17th CROIRead more
Guest blog by Steven Welch, Consultant in Paediatric HIV and Infectious Diseases, Heartlands Hospital, Birmingham, United Kingdom. Today is the fourth and…
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Public Is a megaphone drowning out the most effective way to quit smoking?Read more
Earlier this week NPR ran an item about how anti-smoking efforts have evolved over the decades. Since 1984 when the first nicotine…
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General This week in PLoS Medicine: HIV resistance in women treated with nevirapine; Charging less for more effective treatments; Developing guidelines for better reportingRead more
Read the new papers published in PLoS Medicine this week, including a Research Article that confirms that a single dose of nevirapine…
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General Guest authors are frequent in junior doctors' dissertationsRead more
On the COPE blog I just put up a short post on how, even early in their medical careers when preparing dissertations…