Guest blogger Tom Yates calls for more randomised trials to evaluate social policy. In February, I went to see Rachel Glennerster speak…
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General Is it time to start evaluating social policy using randomised trials?
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Conference news Getting a gender agenda into HIV/AIDS research
Why aren’t sex and gender issues higher up the agenda in HIV/AIDS research? That was the topic of a panel discussion I…
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General Should Deworming Policies in the Developing World be Reconsidered?
The World Health Organization (WHO) currently recommends periodic drug treatment to deworm all children living in areas where soil-transmitted helminths are endemic…
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Collections Exploring the Possibility of HIV Treatment as Prevention: Interview with Timothy Hallett
To mark the launch of the PLoS Medicine collection “Investigating the Impact of Treatment on New HIV Infections”, I caught up with…
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General GlaxoSmithKline found guilty while complicit physicians remain unscathed
Last week (2 July) the pharmaceutical company GlaxoSmithkline agreed to plead guilty to criminal charges and pay a record-breaking US$3 billion in…
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Policy Celebrate World Environment Day with two new analyses of the public health role in climate change
Tuesday June 5th was World Environment Day, an annual event run by the United Nations Environment Programme, with the aim of bringing…
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Policy Public Access to Publicly Funded Research
A petition to the White House is gathering signatures to bring the US President’s attention to the need for public access to…
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General Science Publishing and the Dual Use Dilemma
You may be familiar with the controversy over recent research conducted on H5N1 influenza. If you follow science news, it’s been hard…
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General False positive HIV tests: the problem no one wants to talk about (and how to solve it)
Guest post by Leslie Shanks of MSF, the second of three guest posts from the 2011 ICASA conference in Addis Ababa. The…
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General Africa AIDS Conference: Donor Retreat and its Consequences for Patients and Communities
Guest post by Mit Philips of MSF, the first of three guest posts from the 2011 ICASA conference in Addis Ababa. The…
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General Obama’s bioethics commission reports on international research protections
A US standing Presidential Commission, asked to assure “that current rules for research participants protect people from harm or unethical treatment, domestically…
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General Reporting guidelines for systematic reviews that consider effects on health equity
We would like to invite readers of Speaking of Medicine to complete a survey about which items should be reported in equity-oriented…