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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Public Is a megaphone drowning out the most effective way to quit smoking?Read more
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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…
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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…