Upon his return from 6 weeks volunteering with the King’s Sierra Leone Partnership at a number of Ebola isolation facilities in Freetown…
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Ebola How Will the Ebola Epidemic End?Read more
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General Introducing the Tripod Statement for Reporting Clinical Prediction ModelsRead more
Gary Collins (@GSCollins) of the TRIPOD Steering Group introduces the TRIPOD Statement, which provides guidance for reporting clinical prediction models. Clinical predictions are routinely made…
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General FDA Voucher for Leishmaniasis Treatment: Can Both Patients and Companies Win?Read more
Bernard Pécoul and Manica Balasegaram discuss whether drug companies have taken advantage of flaws in the FDA Priority Review Voucher program. It sounded…
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Ebola Is Margaret Chan Really to Blame for the Delayed Ebola Response?Read more
Sara Gorman (@saragorm) discusses recent criticism of WHO Director-General Margaret Chan and whether the focus should be on failures in preparation rather than…
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General One Million Deaths by ParasitesRead more
The end of 2014 saw the release of the Global Burden of Disease Study 2013 (GBD 2013), in which 240 causes of…
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General TDR Reflects on 40 YearsRead more
In April of 1974, the 27th session of the World Health Assembly called for the “intensification of activities in tropical disease research&rdquo…
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Ebola Supporting Those Who Go to Fight EbolaRead more
Michelle Mello, Maria Merritt, and Scott Halpern discuss healthcare institutions’ responsibilities to support their employees’ volunteer efforts in Ebola-affected regions. This is…
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General How Knowledge Sharing Moves Countries Towards UHCRead more
Stefan Nachuk, Amanda Folsom, and Nathaniel Otoo are members of the Joint Learning Network for Universal Health Coverage (JLN). The JLN provides…
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Ebola Ebola Virus Disease: Platform for North-South Collaboration Urgently NeededRead more
Solomon Nwaka and colleagues summarize the outcomes of the September meeting of the Board, and Scientific and Advisory Committee (STAC) of the…
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Ebola Ebola: MSF Should Not Replace Governmental ResponsibilitiesRead more
A version of this was published in Le Temps on 31 October 2014 Thomas Nierle and Bruno Jochum of Médecins Sans Frontières…
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General Neglected Tropical Diseases that KillRead more
According to the latest (November 28) figures from the World Health Organization (WHO) and US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, almost…
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General Push for Better Death Data Bears Fruit: Largest Ever Global Dataset of Individual Deaths ReleasedRead more
Jocalyn Clark @jocalynclark comments on the INDEPTH Network’s release of the largest ever dataset of individual deaths in Africa and Southeast Asia…