Read the new papers published in PLoS Medicine this week, including three Research Articles – the first finds that men newly diagnosed…
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General This week in PLoS Medicine: Sand playground surfaces reduce risk of arm fractures; Influenza in Africa should not be ignored; Cardiovascular and suicide risk raised after prostate cancer diagnosis; The global spread of Hepatitis C Virus 1a and 1b; Addressing emerging zoonosesRead more
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General Snowstorms in CopenhagenRead more
Guest blog by Peter Byass, Director of Umeå Centre for Global Health Research, Sweden Back in Copenhagen today, there were heavy snowstorms…
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General Medics March for Climate Change ActionRead more
This is a Guest Blog by Alison Whyte, Media Adviser at Medact, and Editor of the Medact newsletter Communique. On Saturday, the…
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General New guidelines on retractions are now available from COPE – the Committee on Publication EthicsRead more
New guidelines on retractions are now available from COPE – the Committee on Publication Ethics. The guidelines were written by Liz Wager…
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General Climate change supplement from open access journal Global Health ActionRead more
With the upcoming UN Climate change conference COP-15 almost upon us, the editors of the open access journal Global Health Action have…
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General Global Pulse Interviews Ellen ‘t Hoen About Patent PoolRead more
A few weeks back, I posted a blog called Diving Into the Patent Pool, which reported on a Berkeley Law School meeting…
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General The GPP2 guidelines: revised version of Good publication practice for communicating company sponsored medical researchRead more
The BMJ has just published a new version of “Good publication practice for communicating company sponsored medical research: the GPP2 guidelines” These…
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General Getting ahead of the curve for the most neglected diseases: top issues at ASTMHRead more
A guest blog by Oliver Yun, Medical Editor, Doctors Without Borders/Médecins Sans Frontières, New York The 58th annual meeting of the American…
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General This week in PLoS Medicine: the direct costs of antiretroviral treatment; antibiotics not effective in preventing preterm birth; global health delivery 2.0Read more
Read the new papers published in PLoS Medicine this week, including two Research Articles – one describing the direct heath care costs…
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General Daily Click: Coming to terms with traumatic death: stories from healthtalkonlineRead more
“True stories are not the best medicine but they are nutritious and sustaining”. So says Philip Pullman, award winning author, on the…
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General Daily Click: Sense about Systematic ReviewsRead more
Sense about Science, “an independent charitable trust promoting good science and evidence in public debates” has just published a short briefing paper…
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General International Health Electives: "A Delicate Balance"Read more
Today I had lunch with Paul Drain, physician and lead author of a new guidebook to working in global health, called “Caring…