Ruby Singhrao reports from last month’s TEDx San Franicsco conference, dedicated to advances in global health. On November 10th 2012, the University…
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General TEDx San Francisco: 7 Billion WellRead more
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General Childhood nonsexual trauma: The long-term outcomes of physical and emotional maltreatment and neglectRead more
Estimates on the prevalence of child maltreatment vary widely, but the numbers are wrenching: around the world, 4%-16% of all children are…
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General The humanitarian impact of European laws targeting Google NewsRead more
David Scales and John Brownstein from Healthmap discuss why laws aimed at news aggregators will have an unintended impact on mapping emerging…
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General This Week in PLOS Medicine: Tuberculosis in LMICs; Trends in infertility; Older persons in humanitarian responseRead more
Three articles published this week in PLOS Medicine: Frank Cobelens and colleagues systematically reviewed research on implementation and cost-effectiveness of the WHO-recommended…
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General Estimates from the Global Burden of Disease can become a global public good only if the data are made publicRead more
As most of the global health community may be aware, today the long-awaited findings of the Global Burden of Disease 2010 (GBD2010)…
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General This Week in PLOS Medicine: Child mortalitity estimates; Food tax; Infectuous disease outbreaksRead more
New method quantifies uncertainty in estimates of child mortality rates Measures of uncertainty should be taken into account when estimating progress towards…
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Conference news A snapshot from “Public Health Science: A national conference dedicated to new research in public health”Read more
Faraz Ahmed reports from last month’s Public Health Science conference dedicated to new research in public health at the Royal Society of…
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General The Corkscrew-like Motion of a Deadly Human ParasiteRead more
In a paper recently published by PLOS Pathogens, Niko Heddergott and colleagues describe how they modeled the remarkable motion of the parasite…
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Access Now is the time for transparency and access to clinical-trial dataRead more
Carl Heneghan, Director of the University of Oxford’s Centre of Evidence-Based Medicine, discusses recent developments in access to clinical-trial data. The Pharmaceutical…
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Access Stuck in a time warp: WHO-brokered global R&D action plan shelvedRead more
Julien Potet and Katy Athersuch from Médecins Sans Frontières’ Access Campaign discuss a backward step for medical research & development. Ten years…
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General This Week in PLOS Medicine: Flexible sigmoidoscopy screening & Home-based HIV testing in AfricaRead more
For December 4 and 11, visit the Speaking of Medicine blog for updates on the latest articles from PLOS Medicine. Two new…
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General This Week in PLOS Medicine: Flexible sigmoidoscopy screening & Home-based HIV testing in AfricaRead more
For December 4 and 11, visit the Speaking of Medicine blog for updates on the latest articles from PLOS Medicine. Two new…