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
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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…
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Neglected Diseases How neglected are neglected diseases?Read more
The World Health Organization uses the disability-adjusted life year (DALY), a time-based measure that combines years of life lost due to premature…
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Access What does it mean to deidentify data?Read more
Many journals, including PLoS Medicine, have policies regarding the availability of datasets underpinning published research findings. For example, PLoS journal policies require…
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General My 12 Minutes Speaking in the House of CommonsRead more
Guest blog by Gavin Yamey, San Francisco Lead, Evidence to Policy initiative (E2Pi), Global Health Group, University of California San Francisco. PLoS…
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General Water and Sanitation in Humanitarian EmergenciesRead more
Maggie Brown, MS, ELS is Senior Production Editor at PLoS In a humanitarian crisis a population’s needs are great and many–for medical…
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General This week in PLoS Medicine: Call for better global health data; Pregnancies at risk of malaria in 2007; Lessons for a stronger institutional framework; and more!Read more
Read the new papers published in PLoS Medicine this week, including a Research Article that finds at least 125.2 million women at…
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General Improving nutrition highlighted by SciDevNet article collectionRead more
Problems with nutrition range from a lack of food to an imbalanced or inadequate diet. Being underweight is a major risk factor…
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General MSF in Haiti: Treating and managing infected woundsRead more
Guest blog by Dr. Richard Murphy, Infectious Diseases Referent, and Oliver Yun, Medical Editor, Médecins Sans Frontières/Doctors Without Borders, New York, NY…