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 Daily Click: Chagas disease articles published in PLoS Neglected Tropical DiseaseRead more
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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…
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General Psychiatric bible bashingRead more
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 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…