Read the new papers published in PLoS Medicine this week, including a Research Article that examine the contribution of a set of…
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General This week in PLoS Medicine: Preventable risk factors; CONSORT 2010; and more!Read more
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General Today is World Water DayRead more
Maggie Brown, MS, ELS is Senior Production Editor at PLoS “Four of every ten people in the world do not have access…
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General Life after PLoS: From Journal Editor to AcademiaRead more
Guest blog by Gavin Yamey, MD MA MRCP, Lead, Evidence to Policy Initiative (E2Pi), Global Health Group, San Francisco, USA. Seven weeks…
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General Progress report on water and sanitation MDG releasedRead more
The report “Progress on Sanitation and Drinking-Water – 2010 Update Report“, assessing progress on MDG 7c (drinking water supply and sanitation), is…
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General This week in PLoS Medicine: Adopting Hib vaccination; COPD for non-smokersRead more
Read the new papers published in PLoS Medicine this week, including a Research Article that analyzes data from 147 countries to identify…
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General This week in PLoS Medicine: Surgical provision in African hospitals; and moreRead more
Read the new papers published in PLoS Medicine this week, including two Research Articles that investigate surgical provision in eight district hospitals…
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General Economic recessions: Good news for health?Read more
Guest Blog by Janani Krishnaswami, a second-year resident in internal and preventive medicine at UCSF and Kaiser Permanente – San Francisco, and…
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General This week in PLoS Medicine: HIV and noncommunicable diseases hinder the progress of poor countries’ MDGs; New treatments for stroke will benefit from genetic researchRead more
Read the new papers published in PLoS Medicine this week, including a Research Article that examines why poor countries are falling behind…
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General New Seroquel Documents available on the Drug Industry Document Archive (DIDA)Read more
Guest blog by Kim Klausner, Tobacco Digital Library Manager, University of California, San Francisco, USA The Drug Industry Document Archive (http://dida.library.ucsf.edu) has…
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General The numbers are the numbers: Avandia, heart attacks, and leaked messagesRead more
A recently released report from the US Senate Finance Committee led by Senator Charles Grassley (who has also queried several medical journals…
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General This week in PLoS Medicine: Economic burden of diabetes complications; Role of T cell count in HIV treatment; Tool to identify hospital infection clusters; and more!Read more
Read the new papers published in PLoS Medicine this week, including three Research Articles – the first finds that major diabetes complications…
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General Measuring the right outcomes in clinical trialsRead more
Astonishingly, for most clinical areas there is no general consensus on what outcomes should be reported in clinical trials. Alhough one speciality…