Among many other activities the British Science Association also runs the UK’s largest science festival each September. Topics this year include the…
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General Daily Click: Investigating (dis)honestyRead more
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General June in PLoS Medicine: Conflict and Reproductive Health; Antibiotics are not Automatic; Water in Wired; and much moreRead more
New articles are published by PLoS Medicine every week, but in our archive you can see that articles are also organised into…
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General Investigating ghostwritingRead more
You may have seen a press release from US Senator Charles Grassley, who is asking several journals about their policy on ghost…
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General 100 years of Chagas diseaseRead more
Today, Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) launched a new campaign, ‘Chagas: it’s time to break the silence’, aiming to highlight what they describe…
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General EU drugs industry antitrust report out…Read more
The European Commission posted yesterday its report of the pharmaceutical industry from an 18 month investigation of drug industry practices in relation…
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General Psychiatric bible bashingRead more
The somewhat secretive ins and outs of the American Psychiatric Association’s DSM-V (Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders V) seem to…
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General Daily Click: Medicine in the Era of GlobalizationRead more
Yesterday my colleague Gavin Yamey, who is on sabbatical in east Africa this summer, wrote an interesting piece in Virtual Mentor, the…
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General Daily Click: Inexplicable acts at the Wellcome collectionRead more
Ever wondered how jugglers juggle, sword swallowers swallow, or contortionists contort? This video from an evening at the Wellcome Trust collection in…
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General Daily Click: Water Should be a Human RightRead more
When I was researching this month’s PLoS Medicine editorial arguing that clean water should be recognised as a human right my colleague…
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General Daily Click: Eleven Essential Resources on Global HealthRead more
Everyone loves lists! The blog of Alanna Shaikh, a global health expert from Tajikistan, contains a list of Eleven Essential Resources on…
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General Using social media networks in researchRead more
There’s an interesting post on the Research Ethics blog on the use of social networks for research. In this age of being…
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General May Issue summary: Sexual health policy; reducing premature birth risk; tobacco control; and moreRead more
PLoS Medicine publishes weekly, but the articles are also compiled into a monthly issue on the last Tuesday of the month. Here…