Read the new papers published in PLoS Medicine this week, including two Research Articles: The first finds an association between prior seasonal…
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General This week in PLoS Medicine: Decreasing newborn death; H1N1; and more!Read more
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General Can Animal Models of Disease Reliably Inform Human Studies?Read more
Articles published in PLoS Medicine and PLoS Biology today suggest that selective reporting of medical research carried out on animals may be…
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General This week in PLoS Medicine: Preventing road deaths; Bias in animal trial reportsRead more
Read the new papers published in PLoS Medicine this week, including a Research Article that uses computer crash simulations, as well as…
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General Quality of trial reporting: not great, but getting better slowlyRead more
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 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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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…