On World TB Day, Dr. Jay Achar (@dr_jay_a) of Médecins Sans Frontières (@MSFSci) explains how, despite encouraging innovation in the fight to…
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General Progress in Peril: Stagnant Funding Could Lengthen the TB Elimination TimelineRead more
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General ‘I didn’t plan to be an activist’ : perspectives on tuberculosis care from six survivorsRead more
Six survivors from diverse backgrounds describe how tuberculosis wreaked havoc on their lives and drove them to advocate at a local and…
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General Changing of the Guard: PLOS Neglected Tropical Diseases bids farewell to Professor Judd Walson and welcomes Dr. Shaden KamhawiRead more
Serap Aksoy announces that Judd Walson will be stepping down as co-Editor-in-Chief of PLOS NTDs and Shaden Kamhawi will be taking his…
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MSF Overcoming inaction and increasing access to safe abortion care: MSF experienceRead more
On International Womens Day, Claire Fotheringham, Manisha Kumar, and Catrin Schulte-Hillen of Médecins Sans Frontières discuss recent efforts to improve access to…
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Call for Papers PLOS Pathogens Invites Antifungal Immunity ResearchRead more
PLOS Pathogens invites research on fungal pathogenesis and its interactions with immunity for inclusion in a new collection. Submit your research now. We’ve extended the submission…
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Call for Papers PLOS Medicine Special Issue: Maternal and Child Health & NutritionRead more
The editors of PLOS Medicine, together with guest editors Lars Åke Persson, Kathleen M. Rasmussen and Huixia Yang, announce a forthcoming Special…
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Editorial Better medicine through machine learning: What’s real, and what’s artificial?Read more
Note: This Editorial is appearing in Speaking of Medicine ahead of print. The final version will appear in PLOS Medicine at the…
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Conference news Report from the 2018 APHA Meeting, Part 2: Approaches to Reducing Gun ViolenceRead more
In part two of a two-part series from the 2018 meeting of the American Public Health Association, PLOS Medicine Chief Editor Larry Peiperl reports from…
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Conference news Report from the 2018 APHA meeting, Part 1: Research on Racial Disparities in Gun ViolenceRead more
In part one of a two-part series from the 2018 meeting of the American Public Health Association, PLOS Medicine Chief Editor Larry Peiperl discusses new…
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General Interpreting chest x-rays and predicting severe nearsightedness: Launching our Special Issue on Machine Learning in Health and BiomedicineRead more
Associate Editor Linda Nevin discusses highlights from the first week of the PLOS Medicine’s Machine Learning in Health and Biomedicine Special Issue This…
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General Combatting MDR-TB: Bringing a Knife to a GunfightRead more
Animesh Sinha, a physician with Médecins Sans Frontières, describes how bedaquiline and delamanid changed the game for treating multidrug-resistant tuberculosis and stresses…
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General Inexcusable Excuses: Reluctance to Quickly Improve MDR-TB TreatmentRead more
It’s time to stop making excuses and start taking action and implement the new WHO guidance for treating MDR-TB, argue Helena Huerga…