One of the most dramatic international responses to the Millennium Development Goals launched by then United Nations Secretary Kofi Annan in 2000 has…
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General Millennium Development Goal 6: Measuring ProgressRead more
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Cholera Evidently it’s Cholera SeasonRead more
Just when the oppressive summer heat and humidity in South Asia seem no longer tolerable, especially to this Northern expatriate new to…
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General PLOS launches Clinical Immunology CollectionRead more
Nathaniel Gore, Editorial Project Manager of PLOS Collections, on the launch of a new Clinical Immunology Collection Today PLOS launches a new…
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General From One to One Million Article Views: Q&A with Author John IoannidisRead more
PLOS’s Erica Kritsberg interviews John Ioannidis about the success of his article “Why Most Published Research Findings Are False”, which reached one…
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Book Review Book Review: The Adventure of the Cure That Wasn’tRead more
Marzieh Ghiasi and Madhukar Pai from McGill University & McGill International TB Centre, Montreal, review “The Remedy” by Thomas Goetz No image…
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General EH!WOZA: Leaving the Lab and Addressing TB Stigmas and TaboosRead more
Anastasia Koch, a molecular biology PhD student in South Africa talks about engaging the community with biomedical research. As a molecular biology…
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General I’m a Scientist with Learning Disabilities and That’s Okay!Read more
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 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 [email protected] 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…