On World Malaria Day 2015, Allan Schapira and Lorenz von Seidlein discussed the accomplishments and challenges of the fight against malaria. Lorenz…
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Global Health World Malaria Day 2015: A Conversation between Allan Schapira and Lorenz von SeidleinRead more
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Collections Drugs for Malaria: Need to Overcome Resistance to Artemisinins and Eliminate All Stages of Parasites in a Wide Range of Transmission and Disease SettingsRead more
In their second post honoring World Malaria Day, Kasturi Haldar, Editor-in-Chief of PLOS Pathogens, and Margaret Phillips comment on the challenges for…
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Collections Malaria: Targets and Drugs for All StagesRead more
This is the first of two linked posts commenting on the Malaria: Targets and Drugs for All Stages Collection. For additional analysis from Katsuri Haldar…
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Cancer Cancer Genomics: Data, Data and more DataRead more
PLOS Medicine’s Senior Research Editor, Clare Garvey, recently caught up with Francis Ouellette, the Associate Director of Informatics and Biocomputing at the…
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Cancer Child Cancer Care and Hospital Hygiene – Can We Have One without the Other?Read more
Jocalyn Clark (@JocalynClark) describes the challenge of achieving and maintaining basic cleanliness and sanitation in a children’s cancer ward in Dhaka, Bangladesh…
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Global Health Training the Next Generation of Scientists from Disease Endemic Countries Should be a High Priority in Disease Elimination EffortsRead more
Serap Aksoy, co-Editor in Chief of PLOS NTDs, comments on the importance of training young scientists in the Tropical Infectious Disease community. There is…
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Global Health Ready or Not: Here Come the DataRead more
Michael W. Painter of the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation asks if you are ready for the data explosion in health care, and…
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General Time for a jumpstart: accelerating access to new and promising DR-TB drugsRead more
On World TB day, Grania Brigden (@TBbrigden) of Médecins Sans Frontières (@MSF) calls for improved global access to MDR-TB drugs. World TB…
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General The Oral Microbiota Affects More Than Just the MouthRead more
For World Oral Health Day, Lily Berrin, daughter of a periodontist and dental hygienist, highlights recent PLOS Pathogens content to remind us…
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Ebola Engaging the Public on Global HealthRead more
In the wake of Ebola, Sara Gorman (@saragorm) discusses the need to keep the general public engaged and informed on global health…
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Maternal Newborn and Child Health Reflecting on the Maternal Health CollectionsRead more
In celebration of the MHTF-PLOS Maternal Health collaboration we take a look back through the collections and highlight some of the most…
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General Boko Haram and Africa’s Neglected Tropical DiseasesRead more
Peter Hotez (@PeterHotez), Co-Editor in Chief of PLOS NTDs, was named U.S. Science Envoy by the White House and State Department with…