There is now only a week to go before our competition (to find the best medical paper published under an open-access license anywhere…
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General PLoS Medicine 5th birthday paper competition – last week of voting!Read more
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Public Buying a Coke in Africa: are there lessons for malaria?Read more
Many African countries face serious shortages of essential global health tools, such as malaria drugs and mosquito nets. Often when these shortages…
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General Uniting Tanzanian Medical Students to Reverse the Brain DrainRead more
Guest blog by Evance L Mmbando, 3rd year medical student, Weill-Bugando University College of Health Sciences, Tanzania According to the World Health…
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Access Data sharing after publicationRead more
A paper published in PLoS ONE (Empirical Study of Data Sharing by Authors Publishing in PLoS Journals) last week highlighted the very…
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Ghostwriting Wyeth Ghostwriting Documents Added to Drug Industry Document ArchiveRead more
Guest blog by Kim Klausner, Tobacco Digital Library Manager, University of California, San Francisco, USA We’re pleased to announce the addition to…
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General Health Check on HIV and male circumcisionRead more
PLoS Medicine author, Catherine Hankins, took part in a discussion on the BBC World Service earlier this week asking what role adult…
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General Article-level metrics at PLoS – addition of usage dataRead more
(cross posted from a blog made by Mark Patterson on the PLoS Blog) As part of our ongoing article-level metrics program, we’re…
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Public Public health and social justiceRead more
Last week, I was contacted by a physician, Dr Martin Donohoe, who is an adjunct associate professor in the School of Community…
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General Can we really fix US health care?Read more
That’s the question that T.R. Reid, renowned correspondent for The Washington Post and a commentator for National Public Radio, set out to…
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Access PLoS Medicine's 5th anniversary competitionRead more
PLoS Medicine turns 5 years old on October 19th, 2009. To highlight the crucial importance of open access in medical publishing we’re…
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Access PLoS Medicine’s 5th anniversary competitionRead more
PLoS Medicine turns 5 years old on October 19th, 2009. To highlight the crucial importance of open access in medical publishing we’re…
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Public Serving a “cup of science” in KenyaRead more
How can health professionals and researchers engage the public and get people interested in science? In Kenya, the Wellcome Trust is supporting…