With a different hat on I write and tweet on the Publication Ethics blog of the Committee on Publication Ethics (COPE). I…
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General Ghostwriting and its wider ramificationsRead more
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General When research is tortureRead more
I’m on a listserve that discusses many mundane issues that IRBs have to grapple with, but this week the listserve was grappling…
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General This week in PLoS Medicine: Mapping the malaria burden; thrombophilia and pregnancy complicationsRead more
Two articles have been published by PLoS Medicine this week, including Simon Hay and colleagues’ study which estimates the global burden of…
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General This week in PLoS Medicine: "Good Things for Young People"; Getting STRICTA about guidelines for acupuncture trials; and moreRead more
New articles in PLoS Medicine this week include research on the community-based MEMA kwa Vijana (“Good things for young people”) intensive sexual…
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General This week in PLoS Medicine: “Good Things for Young People”; Getting STRICTA about guidelines for acupuncture trials; and moreRead more
New articles in PLoS Medicine this week include research on the community-based MEMA kwa Vijana (“Good things for young people”) intensive sexual…
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General This Week in PLoS Medicine: C-reactive protein in coronary artery disease; Secondary prevention of suicide; challenges for the pandemicRead more
Three articles are published in PLoS Medicine this week. A systematic review and meta-analysis by Harry Hemingway and colleagues looks at the…
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General This week in PLoS Medicine: Adult obesity; Assessing child development; Breast cancer; and more!Read more
Read the new papers published in PLoS Medicine this week, including five Research Articles: The first genotyped children from the ALSPAC birth…
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General This week in PLoS Medicine: NTDs; H1N1 in Vietnam; Suicide risk for seniorsRead more
Read the new papers published in PLoS Medicine this week, including a Research Article that analyzes the initial outbreak, attempts at containment…
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General Making drug and device regulation more transparent — FDA invites public comment on proposalsRead more
As part of its longstanding efforts towards providing greater accountability, the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has just released a set…
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General Mother-to-child HIV transmission – stigma barrier to progressRead more
Guest blog by Ditte A. Søndergaard1, Simone C. Hald1,3, Jeffrey V. Lazarus2,3 1 Department of Public Health, Copenhagen University, Copenhagen, Denmark 2…
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General MSF: Access to medicines must be preserved and improved at the World Health AssemblyRead more
Guest blog by Dr. Tido von Schoen-Angerer, Executive Director, Access to Essential Medicines Campaign, Médecins Sans Frontières/Doctors Without Borders (MSF), Geneva, Switzerland…
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General Open access in PolandRead more
Last week I attended a conference on Open Access in Poland. The meeting, hosted by the Polish Academy of Sciences, came at…