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 The GPP2 guidelines: revised version of Good publication practice for communicating company sponsored medical researchRead more
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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…
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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…
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General This week in PLoS Medicine: Why circumcision reduces HIV risk; the unequal world of health data; malaria activism; evaluating eHealth; and more!Read more
Read the new papers published in PLoS Medicine this week, including a Research Article that discusses the effects of genital ulcer disease…
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General This week in PLoS Medicine: El Niño and dengue fever; clinical trial regulations; using systematic reviews in policymakingRead more
Read the new papers published in PLoS Medicine this week, including research on the relationship between climate and dengue incidence in Puerto…
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General The role of medical students in limiting the spread of antimicrobial resistanceRead more
Guest blog by Adam Castaño‡, Sujal Parikh‡ and Eunice Yu, medical students at the University of Michigan Medical School, Ann Arbor, Michigan…
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General A billion living in hunger: governments must rise to the challengeRead more
The third UN World Food Summit assembles this week. But despite the fact that more than one billion people go hungry every…
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General HIV and homosexuality – Uganda’s Turn Toward HateRead more
Guest blog by Chris Beyrer MD, MPH, Director of the Center for Public Health and Human Rights, Professor of Epidemiology, Johns Hopkins…
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Access Diving into the patent poolRead more
When it comes to treating HIV in low and middle income countries (LMICs), there are two crises—the first garners much attention, but…