Post doc Collin Diedrich discusses his experiences as a learning disabled scientist. About a month ago, I was playing with my 3yr…
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General I’m a Scientist with Learning Disabilities and That’s Okay!Read more
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General Everything You Always Wanted to See about Sex in LeishmaniaRead more
Geneviève Lanotte (retired), Jean-Antoine Rioux (retired), and Jérémy Bouyer from CIRAD recount that cellular fusion in Leishmania was filmed in the 80s…
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General An Open Letter to the EMA from the AllTrials Steering CommitteeRead more
AllTrials campaign c/o Sense About Science 14A Clerkenwell Green London EC1R 0DP alltrials@senseaboutscience.org Professor Guido Rasi Director, European Medicines Agency 7…
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General The Failures and Futures of the Peer Review ProcessRead more
Elspeth K. Ritchie from Newcastle University’s Biopharmaceutical Bioprocessing Technology Centre reflects on discussions between academic journal editors and writers after attending the…
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General A Boon or Curse? Status of the Elderly in Rural IndiaRead more
Praveen Aivalli presents some reflections about the neglected status of the elderly in India, and the need for an organised health system…
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General Classic EthnographiesRead more
Trisha Greenhalgh discusses classic ethnography texts and their applicability to health services research. Ethnography is, traditionally, the remit of anthropologists. Think mud…
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Collections When 2 Become 1: Integrating the Health Care needs of Mothers and Infants, the New MHTF-PLOS Collection on Maternal HealthRead more
In November 2013, PLOS Medicine and the Maternal Health Task Force (MHTF) called for submissions to Year 3 of the MHTF-PLOS Collection…
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General EMA’s Proposed Data Release Policy: Promoting Transparency or Expanding Pharma Control over Data?Read more
Trudo Lemmens of the University of Toronto critiques the recently distributed draft EMA Clinical Trials Data Release Policy. Things were looking…
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General The Blue Marble Health Collection: Redrawing Boundaries that Disease has Already CrossedRead more
Peter J. Hotez, Co-Editor-in-Chief of PLOS Neglected Tropical Diseases, and Larry Peiperl, Chief Editor of PLOS Medicine, on a new PLOS Collection that highlights a…
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General New Statistics on ‘Modern-day Slavery’ Reveal a Shameful and Profitable BusinessRead more
Jocalyn Clark analyses the ILO’s shocking recent report that ‘modern-day slavery’ generates billions of dollars globally each year. When updated estimates increase…
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General Scientific Day 2014: The Role of Evidence in Humanitarian AidRead more
Sarah Venis and Philipp du Cros reflect on the theme of this year’s MSF scientific day which will be streamed live online…
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General Is the EMA Poised to Make a Major U-turn on its Transparency Initiative?Read more
In timing that highlights the importance of Clinical Trials Day and the AllTrials campaign, Peter Doshi and Tom Jefferson, two of the…