The United States has a gun problem, but if the Sandy Hook Elementary School shooting has any silver lining, perhaps the US…
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General Facing Up to the US Gun Problem: Steps in the Right DirectionRead more
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General Do human rights have a place in maternal health? Day 3 of global maternal health conference 2013Read more
It wasn’t easy to choose sessions today on the last day of the global maternal health conference 2013, the variety and caliber…
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General This Week in PLOS Medicine: Mobile-health; BMI in LMICs; MHTF; GMHPRead more
Five new articles published in PLOS Medicine: Caroline Free and colleagues systematically review a fast-moving field, that of the effectiveness of mobile…
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General The Horseman, the Donkey and the Virus: Hepatitis E in South SudanRead more
Médecins Sans Frontières’ Ian Woolley reports on the current hepatitis E outbreak in the refugee camps of South Sudan. Pestilence, along with…
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Access Improving access to information: Day 2 of the global maternal health conference 2013Read more
I had the pleasure today of officially launching the Year 1 Open Access Collection on Maternal Health that PLOS has developed with…
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General The infelicities of quarantineRead more
In 2009, as panic struck global health systems confronted with the H1N1 flu epidemic, a familiar strategy was immediately invoked by health…
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Global Health Why focus on quality of care? Day 1 of the global maternal health conference 2013Read more
This blog is cross-posted at the Maternal Health Task Force blog. Today in Arusha, more than 700 delegates from around the world…
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General This Week in PLOS Medicine: HIV treatment disengagement; Aid displacement; Mental health in GeorgiaRead more
Five new articles published this week in PLOS Medicine, including a Perspective, discussing the further impact of one of our Research Articles…
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Global Health Aid Displacement: The story continuesRead more
by Jocalyn Clark, Senior Magazine Editor, and Virginia Barbour, Chief Editor, PLOS Medicine Today in PLOS Medicine we publish two commissioned Perspectives…
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General This Week in PLOS Medicine: Call for papers; Benefits of statins; Mental health in LMICsRead more
PLOS Medicine closes out 2012 with three new articles, including an Editorial call for papers: The PLOS Medicine editors issue a call…
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General TEDx San Francisco: 7 Billion WellRead more
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 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…