This week PLOS Medicine publishes the following new articles: The burden of cardiovascular disease (CVD), a major cause of illness and death…
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General This Week in PLOS Medicine: Tobacco Control in India, Abortion & Preterm Birth, & Evidence & Global Health InterventionsRead more
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General China’s Hookworms ReduxRead more
A new Global Burden of Disease Study 2010 focusing on the health transitions in China confirms a lingering and severe public health…
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General This Week in PLOS Medicine: Inflammation Links Social Adversity & Diabetes, New Diagnostic for Sepsis, Fake Meds, & MoreRead more
This week PLOS Medicine publishes the following new articles: Diabetes is strongly associated with socioeconomic status: low income, low education, and low…
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General This Week in PLOS NTDs and PLOS Pathogens: Raising Awareness of Leishmania, the Spatial Organization of DNA Genomes, Rabies in the Amazon, and MoreRead more
The following new articles are publishing in PLOS NTDs this week: Leishmania donovani, the pathogen responsible for visceral leishmaniasis is transmitted by…
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General PLOS NTDs EIC Serap Aksoy Discusses Editorial Challenges with Turkish AcademicsRead more
“Why was my paper rejected?” may be one of the most commonly spoken refrains in the halls of academia, and certainly a…
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General This Week in PLOS Medicine: The “Wicked” Problem of Inactivity, Stroke Care, BMI & Heart Failure, & a Rural Container ClinicRead more
This week PLOS Medicine publishes the following new articles: Physical inactivity is the fourth leading global risk factor for death, and also…
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General Introducing PLOS Currents:OutbreaksRead more
PLOS is pleased to announce a new venue for the rapid publication of research in all aspects of infectious disease outbreaks, PLOS…
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General This Week in PLOS NTDs and PLOS Pathogens: Determinants of Mosquito Competence, Human Leishmaniasis Prevention, CD8 T Cell Epitope and T. gondii, and MoreRead more
The following new articles are publishing in PLOS NTDs this week: Ascaris suum is an intestinal parasitic nematode of pigs that is…
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General Climate Change; No Laughing MatterRead more
A Northern Irish politician recently joked about the impending threat of climate change. David Carroll highlights why climate change is nothing to…
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General This Week in PLOS Medicine: Iron Supplements during Pregnancy; Male-Male Consensual Sex, Sexual Violence, & HIV in South Africa; & Malaria SurveillanceRead more
This week PLOS Medicine publishes the following new articles: Compared to twice weekly iron supplements, daily iron supplements for pregnant women do…
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Book Review Book Review: The Recession Hurt Many People, Now Austerity is Hurting MoreRead more
Jean Adams from Newcastle University, UK reviews “The Body Economic: why austerity kills” by David Stuckler & Sanjay Basu In early 2009…
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Policy Restoring Invisible and Abandoned Trials: A Creative Approach to a Public Good; Now a Creative Approach to Implementation is NeededRead more
Margaret A. Winker, MD, Senior Research Editor, PLOS Medicine, and Virginia Barbour, MD, Chief Editor, PLOS Medicine, on behalf of the PLOS…