Last month Ginny and I had an interesting day out of the office at a conference run by Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF). It…
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General MSF-UK’s annual Scientific Day 2010Read more
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General Personalised genetic testing: when will oversight catch up with technology?Read more
The announcement yesterday that University of California, Berkeley was dropping its original idea of individually analysing genetic information from students joining one…
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General Russian fires could result in a global disaster—another food crisisRead more
Dr Rhona MacDonald, Freelance editor, rhonamacdonald@gmail.com As torrential rain and floods continue to devastate Pakistan, severe wild fires are rampaging across Russia…
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General This Week in PLoS Medicine: Mathematical model on malaria; Integrase inhibitors and HIV; Touch-screen eHealthRead more
This week saw three new articles published in PLoS Medicine: Azra Ghani and colleagues assess whether the currently available tools for reducing…
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General Mumbai’s malaria outbreakRead more
Dr Rhona MacDonald, Freelance editor, rhonamacdonald@gmail.com Last month’s monsoons brought a rapid increase of Plasmodium vivax malaria to the Indian city of…
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General DFID launches public consultation to inform UK malaria business planRead more
More than 100 years on from the discovery, by British surgeon Ronald Ross, that mosquitoes transmit malaria parasites to humans, DFID (Department…
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General Pakistan floods: medical coordination is essentialRead more
Dr Rhona MacDonald, Freelance editor (rmacdonald@gmail.com). COI: RM is the honorary executive director of MCAI As more news about the devastating floods…
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General The UN Declares Access to Water and Sanitation a Human RightRead more
Maggie Brown, MS, ELS is Senior Production Editor at PLoS On July 28, the UN General Assembly took an important step on…
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General This Week in PLoS Medicine: The Burma MOM Project; Strategy and Ecology in the Elimination of MalariaRead more
This week in the spectrum of article types available from PLoS Medicine, we published a new research article, essay and policy forum…
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General Randomised trials are not just for medicinesRead more
In his Bad Science column this week, Ben Goldacre looked at the evidence for various methods of teaching children to read. As…
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General Global health research survey: Who is healthier?Read more
A survey launched yesterday – the “Global Burden of Diseases, Injuries, and Risk Factors Study 2010 Health Measurement Survey” is aiming to…
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General This Week in PLoS Medicine: Social relationships and mortality; ECG repolarization patterns; Editorial on maternal and child HIV treatment & moreRead more
Five new articles have been published this week in PLoS Medicine including three research articles: In a meta-analysis, Julianne Holt-Lunstad and colleagues…