At the International Congress of Parasitology (ICOPA XIII) held in Mexico City earlier this month, we learned of a very serious and…
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General Venezuela: An Emerging Tropical Disease and Humanitarian Emergency?Read more
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Ebola The Global Response to the Ebola Fever Epidemic: What Took So Long?Read more
Mark J. Siedner of Harvard Medical School and John D. Kraemer of the O’Neill Institute for National and Global Health Law, Georgetown…
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Ebola Ebola: Liberians Destined for ExtinctionRead more
Liberian medical student Gondah Lekpeh gives us his perspective from the front lines of the Ebola outbreak. On July 22 of this…
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General Reflections on feces and its synonymsRead more
As medical parasitologists we tend not to be too squeamish when discussing human feces. They represent one of the “five F’s” of…
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General Introducing a New Look for the Journal HomepagesRead more
Today sees the launch of our re-vamped homepages for PLOS Medicine, PLOS Pathogens and PLOS Neglected Tropical Diseases. They’ve been designed to…
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General World Hepatitis Day 2014 – Think AgainRead more
A former hepatitis virus researcher reminisces on the progress made and challenges remaining in the fight to eradicate chronic viral hepatitis. July…
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General Millennium Development Goal 6: Measuring ProgressRead more
One of the most dramatic international responses to the Millennium Development Goals launched by then United Nations Secretary Kofi Annan in 2000 has…
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General PLOS launches Clinical Immunology CollectionRead more
Nathaniel Gore, Editorial Project Manager of PLOS Collections, on the launch of a new Clinical Immunology Collection Today PLOS launches a new…
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General From One to One Million Article Views: Q&A with Author John IoannidisRead more
PLOS’s Erica Kritsberg interviews John Ioannidis about the success of his article “Why Most Published Research Findings Are False”, which reached one…
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Book Review Book Review: The Adventure of the Cure That Wasn’tRead more
Marzieh Ghiasi and Madhukar Pai from McGill University & McGill International TB Centre, Montreal, review “The Remedy” by Thomas Goetz No image…
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General EH!WOZA: Leaving the Lab and Addressing TB Stigmas and TaboosRead more
Anastasia Koch, a molecular biology PhD student in South Africa talks about engaging the community with biomedical research. As a molecular biology…
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General I’m a Scientist with Learning Disabilities and That’s Okay!Read more
Post doc Collin Diedrich discusses his experiences as a learning disabled scientist. About a month ago, I was playing with my 3yr…