James Ridgeway, from Solitary Watch, asks whether the health needs of American prisoners are being neglected. There are 2.3 million people in US…
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General Is the American Health Profession Ignoring a Human Rights Issue Hiding in Plain Sight?Read more
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General HIV Viral Load Testing in Africa – No Longer Why but How?Read more
Helen Bygrave from Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) considers the challenges of making HIV viral load testing an effective reality in sub-Saharan Africa…
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Collections Celebrating the Second Year of the MHTF-PLOS Collection on Maternal HealthRead more
PLOS Medicine and the MHTF review highlights of the second successful collection, as part of their 3 Year partnership focusing on improving…
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General Tropical Medicine Mystery: Something is Killing Young Men in Central AmericaRead more
Peter Hotez and colleagues from Baylor College of Medicine highlight the mystery of Mesoamerican nephropathy which is killing young men in Central…
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General State of Knowledge on MERS-CoVRead more
Tweeterview with Tony Mounts from WHO http://storify.com/ploscurrents/state-of-knowledge-on-mers-cov-tweeterview-with-to…
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General Speaking of Medicine’s Highlights from 2013Read more
As is traditional at this time of year we look back over some of the best blogs published in Speaking of Medicine…
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General Thanks to our peer reviewers in 2013!Read more
As 2014 begins we’d like to thank those who made it possible for the PLOS Medicine Group journals to serve the scientific…
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Access Follow the Money; or, Why it Took an Accounts Committee to Decide Why Access to Clinical Trial Data MattersRead more
Ginny Barbour, Medicine Editorial Director at PLOS, discusses a recently-published UK Government spending report on access to clinical trial information and the…
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Collections MHTF & PLOS Medicine host a Special Event to Celebrate Year 2 of the Maternal Health CollectionRead more
On the 11th December, the MHTF and PLOS joined forces to celebrate the second Year of the Maternal Health Collection, highlighting the…
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Collections MHTF & PLOS Medicine host a Special Event to Celebrate Year 2 of the Maternal Health CollectionRead more
On the 11th December, the MHTF and PLOS joined forces to celebrate the second Year of the Maternal Health Collection, highlighting the…
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Book Review Book Review: The Drugs Don’t Work? Antipsychotics, Big Pharma, and PsychiatryRead more
Seena Fazel from the Department of Psychiatry, University of Oxford, UK reviews The Bitterest Pills: The Troubling Story of Antipsychotic Drugs by…
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General What Do We Really Know About Social Resistance to Vaccines?Read more
Sara Gorman explores some of the factors behind anti-vaccination movements. Last year, polio eradication efforts were severely compromised by a rash of…