“Watches” —civil society’s accountability tool—are in vogue: First, there was PEPFAR Watch, an initiative set up to hold U.S. global AIDS funding…
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General WASHwatch: helping to hold governments to account on their commitments to the fundamental foundations of health.Read more
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General Should films with smoking have adult-ratings?Read more
Two articles in this week’s PLoS Medicine address the question of whether films with smoking scenes should have “R” or “adult” ratings…
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General This Week in PLoS Medicine: Tobacco’s corporate social responsibility; Health policy & systems research; smoking in filmsRead more
This week PLoS Medicine publishes four new articles, including two articles on the subject of smoking in cinema. Also check out our…
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General Encouraging developments for universal access to health careRead more
As outlined in the current World Health Report, Health System Financing; The path to universal coverage, three fundamental and interrelated problems restrict…
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General This Week in PLoS Medicine: Coverage gap in US Medicare; Health Policy and Systems ResearchRead more
This week PLoS Medicine publishes two new articles and starts off our Health Policy and Systems Research cluster. Jennifer Polinski and colleagues…
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General Violence against health-care must end: it’s a matter of life and deathRead more
“One of the first victims of war is the health-care system itself,” according to Marco Baldan, the chief war surgeon of the…
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General This Week in PLoS Medicine: Cost effective & accurate TB diagnoses; Ghostwriting perspectivesRead more
Four new articles were published this week in PLoS Medicine, including two fascinating Perspectives on the ghostwriting phenomenon in medical writing. Madhukar…
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General Medical, public health and economic consequences of bad diagnostics for tuberculosisRead more
Guest post by Madhukar Pai, David W. Dowdy and Karen R Steingart, tuberculosis (TB) researchers at McGill University, Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School…
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General Ghostwriting – how does academic medicine justify it?Read more
We’re always interested at PLoS Medicine in different perspectives on the ghostwriting problem. Following considerable news coverage of our recent Stern and…
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General World Music with a Global Health MessageRead more
Last weekend I had the pleasure of watching Benda Bilili, a music documentary which was released in the UK earlier this year…
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General Dear Doctor: If you take credit for a ghostwritten article, you could be suedRead more
Ghostwriting is not only an unethical practice, but it may also constitute legal fraud, according to an article by University of Toronto…
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General Dear Doctor: If you take credit for a ghostwritten article, you could be suedRead more
Ghostwriting is not only an unethical practice, but it may also constitute legal fraud, according to an article by University of Toronto…