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 Measuring the right outcomes in clinical trialsRead more
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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…
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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…
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General Ensuring Ethical Animal Research: How do PLoS journals measure up?Read more
Guest Blog by Janani Krishnaswami, PLoS Medicine Intern Animal research enables advancement in disease management, and saving or prolonging the lives of…
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General This week in PLoS Medicine: Antiretroviral therapy and increases in pregnancy; Unassisted smoking cessation; Maps of the vectors of human malariaRead more
Read the new papers published in PLoS Medicine this week, including a Research Article that finds pregnancy rates increase in HIV-infected women…
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General MSF in Haiti: Managing the risk of communicable disease outbreaksRead more
Guest blog by Dr. Greg Elder, Deputy Operations Manager, Médecins Sans Frontières/Doctors Without Borders (MSF), New York Now in the fourth week…
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General This week in PLoS Medicine: HIV-associated morbidity in adolescents; Policy prohibiting ghostwriting; Measuring hsCRP – Important or clinically redundant?Read more
Read the new papers published in PLoS Medicine this week, including a Research Article that finds nearly half of adolescents admitted to…