The somewhat secretive ins and outs of the American Psychiatric Association’s DSM-V (Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders V) seem to…
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General Psychiatric bible bashingRead more
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General Daily Click: Medicine in the Era of GlobalizationRead more
Yesterday my colleague Gavin Yamey, who is on sabbatical in east Africa this summer, wrote an interesting piece in Virtual Mentor, the…
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Access Reporting from East Africa and SudanRead more
Gavin Yamey, the Senior Magazine Editor of PLoS Medicine, is currently on sabbatical from the journal after being awarded a “mini-fellowship” from…
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General Daily Click: Inexplicable acts at the Wellcome collectionRead more
Ever wondered how jugglers juggle, sword swallowers swallow, or contortionists contort? This video from an evening at the Wellcome Trust collection in…
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General Daily Click: Water Should be a Human RightRead more
When I was researching this month’s PLoS Medicine editorial arguing that clean water should be recognised as a human right my colleague…
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General Daily Click: Eleven Essential Resources on Global HealthRead more
Everyone loves lists! The blog of Alanna Shaikh, a global health expert from Tajikistan, contains a list of Eleven Essential Resources on…
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General Using social media networks in researchRead more
There’s an interesting post on the Research Ethics blog on the use of social networks for research. In this age of being…
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General May Issue summary: Sexual health policy; reducing premature birth risk; tobacco control; and moreRead more
PLoS Medicine publishes weekly, but the articles are also compiled into a monthly issue on the last Tuesday of the month. Here…
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General Comparative Effectiveness Research – what are the ingredients for success?Read more
A review by Kalipso Chalkidou and colleagues published in the Milbank Quarterly compares the characteristics of health technology assessment entities in the…
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General Daily Click: The Social Life of Health InformationRead more
A report, The Social Life of Health Information by the Pew Research Center’s Internet & American Life Project and the California HealthCare…
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General Daily Click: GSK response on the “Right to Health”Read more
In a recent response to a report prepared by Paul Hunt, former UN Special Rapporteur, the pharmaceutical company GlaxoSmithKline (GSK) has argued…
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Access Second Coming of the Sanitarians? Podcasts with two PLoS Medicine Editorial Board MembersRead more
To coincide with the announcement of PLoS Medicine’s revised editorial vision, we commissioned two podcasts in which two members of the PLoS…