Guest blog by Chris Beyrer MD, MPH, Director of the Center for Public Health and Human Rights, Professor of Epidemiology, Johns Hopkins…
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General HIV and homosexuality – Uganda’s Turn Toward Hate
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Access Diving into the patent pool
When it comes to treating HIV in low and middle income countries (LMICs), there are two crises—the first garners much attention, but…
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General Counting the global burden of foodborne disease
Foodborne diseases include diarrhea due to foodborne pathogens, peanut allergies, poisoning from chemical contamination and emergent diseases such as avian ‘flu and…
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General New tools to improve access to healthcare services for Africa’s worst-off
Guest blog by Valéry Ridde, from the Département de médecine sociale et préventive, Centre de recherche du CHUM-Unité de Santé Internationale…
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Public Mental health in Kenya
On Sept 8 2009 I blogged about Kenya’s science cafés, and on October 13 2009 I blogged about the launch of PLoS…
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Public Buying a Coke in Africa: are there lessons for malaria?
Many African countries face serious shortages of essential global health tools, such as malaria drugs and mosquito nets. Often when these shortages…
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Ghostwriting Wyeth Ghostwriting Documents Added to Drug Industry Document Archive
Guest blog by Kim Klausner, Tobacco Digital Library Manager, University of California, San Francisco, USA We’re pleased to announce the addition to…
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Public Public health and social justice
Last week, I was contacted by a physician, Dr Martin Donohoe, who is an adjunct associate professor in the School of Community…
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General Can we really fix US health care?
That’s the question that T.R. Reid, renowned correspondent for The Washington Post and a commentator for National Public Radio, set out to…
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Public Serving a “cup of science” in Kenya
How can health professionals and researchers engage the public and get people interested in science? In Kenya, the Wellcome Trust is supporting…
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Ghostwriting Mining the ghostwriting documents results in university investigation
In what appears to be the first report by an investigative journalist who mined the ghostwriting archive created by PLoS Medicine last…
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Public The dawning era of personalized medicine exposes a gap in medical education
Guest blog by Keyan Salari, PhD Candidate at Department of Genetics, Stanford University School of Medicine and MD Candidate at Stanford Medical…