Guest blog by Peter Byass, Director of Umeå Centre for Global Health Research, Sweden. Along with many others around the world, some…
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Global Health On the way to Copenhagen for the UN Climate ConferenceRead more
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General Medics March for Climate Change ActionRead more
This is a Guest Blog by Alison Whyte, Media Adviser at Medact, and Editor of the Medact newsletter Communique. On Saturday, the…
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General New guidelines on retractions are now available from COPE – the Committee on Publication EthicsRead more
New guidelines on retractions are now available from COPE – the Committee on Publication Ethics. The guidelines were written by Liz Wager…
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General Climate change supplement from open access journal Global Health ActionRead more
With the upcoming UN Climate change conference COP-15 almost upon us, the editors of the open access journal Global Health Action have…
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General Global Pulse Interviews Ellen ‘t Hoen About Patent PoolRead more
A few weeks back, I posted a blog called Diving Into the Patent Pool, which reported on a Berkeley Law School meeting…
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General Getting ahead of the curve for the most neglected diseases: top issues at ASTMHRead more
A guest blog by Oliver Yun, Medical Editor, Doctors Without Borders/Médecins Sans Frontières, New York The 58th annual meeting of the American…
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General This week in PLoS Medicine: the direct costs of antiretroviral treatment; antibiotics not effective in preventing preterm birth; global health delivery 2.0Read more
Read the new papers published in PLoS Medicine this week, including two Research Articles – one describing the direct heath care costs…
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General The GPP2 guidelines: revised version of Good publication practice for communicating company sponsored medical researchRead more
The BMJ has just published a new version of “Good publication practice for communicating company sponsored medical research: the GPP2 guidelines” These…
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General Daily Click: Coming to terms with traumatic death: stories from healthtalkonlineRead more
“True stories are not the best medicine but they are nutritious and sustaining”. So says Philip Pullman, award winning author, on the…
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Ghostwriting Further developments relating to Prempro and Wyeth documentsRead more
There were two interesting developments in the ongoing story of ghostwriting documents relating to Wyeth and Prempro. First on Friday 20th the…
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General Daily Click: Sense about Systematic ReviewsRead more
Sense about Science, “an independent charitable trust promoting good science and evidence in public debates” has just published a short briefing paper…
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General International Health Electives: "A Delicate Balance"Read more
Today I had lunch with Paul Drain, physician and lead author of a new guidebook to working in global health, called “Caring…