The following new articles are publishing in PLOS NTDs this week: There is not yet a vaccine for schistosomiasis and treatment presently…
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General This Week in PLOS NTDs and PLOS Pathogens: Targeting Schistosome Receptors; the Secret Life of Glycoproteins; New Strategies Against TB; RRV Viral Entry Mediation in Rhesus Monkeys; and MoreRead more
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Neglected Diseases From What We Know to What We Do: Now is the Time for Governments to Fix a Failing System for Drug DevelopmentRead more
Kristine Husøy Onarheim and Johanne Helene Iversen from Universities Allied for Essential Medicines write about the broken system for drug development, and…
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Book Review Book Review: The Plague That Refuses to Go AwayRead more
Jasmine Grenier and Madhukar Pai from McGill University review “Spitting Blood: The History of Tuberculosis” by Helen Bynum Tuberculosis is one of…
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Conference news A Collaboration of Friends: Getting to Know CochraneRead more
Karen Daniels from the South African MRC reports back from the African Cochrane Indaba 2013. Once in the not too distant past…
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General This Week in PLOS Medicine: Neonatal Mortality, M. pneumonia in Children, Childhood Diarrhoea, & Integrating Mental HealthRead more
This week PLOS Medicine spotlights infant and child health with new articles on neonatal mortality in rural Vietnam, M. pneumonia in asymptomatic…
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General PLOS NTDs Launches New Collection Focusing on StrongyloidesRead more
PLOS Neglected Tropical Diseases announces the launch of a new collection focusing on the human parasitic roundworm Strongyloides stercoralis (S. stercoralis). Containing…
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General This Week in PLOS NTDs and PLOS Pathogens: Dengue and Pregnancy; Protection Against B. pseudomallei; Bacterial VOC Diagnostics; H1N1 Antigenic Change; and moreRead more
New articles publishing in PLOS Neglected Tropical Diseases: The occurrence of dengue fever and dengue hemorrhagic fever has increased in Brazil, in…
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Collections Why Should We Care About Measuring Coverage of Maternal, Newborn, and Child Health Interventions?Read more
Jennifer Bryce explains why measuring coverage of maternal, newborn, and child health interventions matters and what we can learn from the new…
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General This Week in PLOS Medicine: Integrating Mental Health, Aging & Disability in Malawi, Measuring Maternal & Child Health Coverage, & More.Read more
This week PLOS Medicine publishes a Collection on measuring maternal and child health coverage, and also continues with the series Integrating Mental…
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General Female Genital Schistosomiasis (FGS): Sub-Saharan Africa’s Secret Scourge of Girls and WomenRead more
PLOS NTDs editor-in-chief Peter Hotez highlights the subject of Female Genital Schistosomiasis in Africa that continues to affect women there heavily, yet…
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Conference news MSF Scientific Day 2013Read more
Does blogging help patients cope with the lengthy and toxic treatment for multidrug resistant tuberculosis? Do humanitarian responses to crises fail to…
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Conference news Spotlight from the CUGH Conference 2013: Innovative TechnologiesRead more
I recently attended the Consortium of Universities for Global Health (CUGH) conference in Washington DC from March 13-16, 2013. I found the…