As previous posts have mentioned, Gavin Yamey is currently on a Kaiser Foundation-funded fellowship in global reporting in Sudan and East Africa…
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Access “Why Open Access Matters to Public Health in Africa” – A talk in NairobiRead more
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Access Far from the reach of global health programsRead 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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Neglected Diseases The kissing bugRead more
Trypanosoma Cruzi, also known as the kissing bug, is responsible for Chagas Disease, the number one parasitic killer in Latin America (approximately…
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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
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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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…