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
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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…
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General StaRs of child healthRead more
What are the problems with paediatric trials, and how can we make the evidence base in child health bigger, more reliable, and…
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General Counting the global burden of foodborne diseaseRead more
Foodborne diseases include diarrhea due to foodborne pathogens, peanut allergies, poisoning from chemical contamination and emergent diseases such as avian ‘flu and…
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General Drug Companies and Patient Groups: Uneasy BedfellowsRead more
A couple of weeks ago, I was on This American Life, a weekly show on US national public radio, talking about screening…
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General New tools to improve access to healthcare services for Africa’s worst-offRead more
Guest blog by Valéry Ridde, from the Département de médecine sociale et préventive, Centre de recherche du CHUM-Unité de Santé Internationale…
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General Last call for abstracts for the Geneva Health Forum 2010Read more
The Geneva Health Forum is a biannual event organized by the Geneva University Hospitals and the Faculty of Medicine of the University…