Today an Arkansas federal judge granted public access today to evidence that Wyeth Pharmaceuticals “ghostwrote” medical articles regarding its hormone therapy drug…
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Ghostwriting Successful intervention by PLoS Medicine and New York Times in Federal court grants public access to evidence that drug company ‘ghostwrote’ medical articles about hormone therapy drug, PremproRead more
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General A new initiative for neglected tropical diseasesRead more
In light of the current ‘flu pandemic, which serves to remind us that infectious diseases do not respect borders, President Obama announced…
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General Ask PLoS Medicine: No need to request permisson – just be creative!Read more
PLoS Medicine is fast approaching its fifth anniversary, and we’ve noticed that there are a number of recurring questions that get asked…
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Access Supporting systematic reviewsRead more
Yesterday, PLoS Medicine – along with several other journals, Annals of Internal Medicine, BMJ, Journal of Clinical Epidemiology, and Open Medicine &ndash…
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General PLoS Journals – measuring impact where it mattersRead more
Re-posted from the PLoS blog, by Mark Patterson, Director of Publishing, PLoS. In 2009, in this online world, how do most scientists…
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General Daily Click: Chagas disease articles published in PLoS Neglected Tropical DiseaseRead more
In a recent post I highlighted a new campaign by Médecins Sans Frontières to draw attention to the burden of Chagas disease…
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General New Universal Trial Number (UTN) from the WHORead more
The World Health Organisation has announced a new system to make clinical trials easier to identify. In a press release on June…
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General Daily Click: Investigating (dis)honestyRead more
Among many other activities the British Science Association also runs the UK’s largest science festival each September. Topics this year include the…
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General June in PLoS Medicine: Conflict and Reproductive Health; Antibiotics are not Automatic; Water in Wired; and much moreRead more
New articles are published by PLoS Medicine every week, but in our archive you can see that articles are also organised into…
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General Investigating ghostwritingRead more
You may have seen a press release from US Senator Charles Grassley, who is asking several journals about their policy on ghost…
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General 100 years of Chagas diseaseRead more
Today, Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) launched a new campaign, ‘Chagas: it’s time to break the silence’, aiming to highlight what they describe…
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General EU drugs industry antitrust report out…Read more
The European Commission posted yesterday its report of the pharmaceutical industry from an 18 month investigation of drug industry practices in relation…