Maggie Brown, MS, ELS, is Senior Production Editor at PLoS. Current efforts toward delivering lifesaving medicines and other interventions to developing countries…
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General Water and Sanitation: Not Glamorous, but CriticalRead more
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Collections The changing nature of global health institutionsRead more
In January 2010 PLoS Medicine published a four-part weekly series examining the ways in which global health institutions and arrangements are changing…
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General Can society handle the "mind-boggling" amount of genetic data now available?Read more
Mark Walport, the head of the UK’s Wellcome Trust, was giving interviews earlier this week on a number of news programmes in…
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General Can society handle the “mind-boggling” amount of genetic data now available?Read more
Mark Walport, the head of the UK’s Wellcome Trust, was giving interviews earlier this week on a number of news programmes in…
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General Cheaper malaria drugs but more stockouts in Africa?Read more
Richard Tren, Kimberly Hess and Roger Bate have written a fascinating commentary titled ‘Drug procurement, the Global Fund and misguided competition policies‘ …
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General This week in PLoS Medicine: Rape with extreme violence; Increasing access to surgery in Sub-Saharan Africa; Why is TB more common in men than in women?; and more!Read more
Read the new papers published in PLoS Medicine this week, including a Health in Action piece that discusses rape with extreme violence…
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Global Health Can the world afford to be run by countries? Final thoughts from COP-15Read more
Guest blog by Peter Byass, Director of Umeå Centre for Global Health Research, Sweden By now everybody knows that the outcome of…
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General This week in PLoS Medicine: Sand playground surfaces reduce risk of arm fractures; Influenza in Africa should not be ignored; Cardiovascular and suicide risk raised after prostate cancer diagnosis; The global spread of Hepatitis C Virus 1a and 1b; Addressing emerging zoonosesRead more
Read the new papers published in PLoS Medicine this week, including three Research Articles – the first finds that men newly diagnosed…
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General Snowstorms in CopenhagenRead more
Guest blog by Peter Byass, Director of Umeå Centre for Global Health Research, Sweden Back in Copenhagen today, there were heavy snowstorms…
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Global Health Climate and health – reporting from CopenhagenRead more
Guest blog by Peter Byass, Director of Umeå Centre for Global Health Research, Sweden As a health researcher, naturally I’ve been looking…
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Global Health COP15, 2 days in: a health researchers perspectiveRead more
Guest blog by Stig Wall, Professor of Epidemiology, Umeå University and Editor of Global Health Action Two days have passed at the…
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Policy Planned Ohio execution violates Declaration of HelsinkiRead more
Update December 10th: A sorry update to this post is that despite the many groups questioning the ethics and legality of the…