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 Global Pulse Interviews Ellen ‘t Hoen About Patent PoolRead more
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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…
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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…