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 This Week in PLOS Medicine: The “Wicked” Problem of Inactivity, Stroke Care, BMI & Heart Failure, & a Rural Container ClinicRead more
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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…
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General This Week in PLOS NTDs and PLOS Pathogens: Dams and Disease Triggers, Insights into Disease Transmission Models, African vs. Eurasian Leishmania Genus, P. vivax Vaccine Development, and MoreRead more
The following new articles are publishing in PLOS NTDs this week: Most concern over controversial dam building on the Mekong River focuses…
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General Why are we so afraid of vaccines?Read more
Despite the official retraction of the 1998 Lancet study that suggested a connection between vaccines and autism, as of 2010, 1 in…
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General This Week in PLOS Medicine: Noncommunicable Disease Prevention in LMICs, Active Commutes in Urbanizing India, & Traffic Crashes as a Neglected IssueRead more
This week PLOS Medicine focuses on diet, exercise, and road safety with the following new articles: Nine years after the World Health…
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General This Week in PLOS NTDs and PLOS Pathogens: Fungal Spore Diversity; a Novel HAT Treatment; the Circadian Clock and Plant Immunity; and MoreRead more
The following new articles are publishing in PLOS NTDs this week: In this study, Dr. John Thuita and colleagues investigate the potential…
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General “Aleppo Evil” قرحة حلب : The Ulcer, the Boil, the Sandfly, and the ConflictRead more
News Reports out of Syria indicate the emergence of epidemic cutaneous leishmaniasis in the besieged city of Aleppo, adding further to the…