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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General This Week in PLOS Medicine: Child mortalitity estimates; Food tax; Infectuous disease outbreaksRead more
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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…
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General This Week in PLOS Medicine: Maternal health; TB in prisons; Health consequences of child abuseRead more
PLOS Medicine finishes out November with its monthly Editorial and two new Research Articles, and an update to our Maternal Health…
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General PLOS NTDs 5th Anniversary Tweetchat & Call for PapersRead more
As part of the journal’s ongoing fifth-anniversary celebration, PLOS Neglected Tropical Diseases invites readers and colleagues to join us for a tweet…
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Global Health Maternal health is women’s health – new Call for PapersRead more
We are delighted to announce the theme for year 2 of our Maternal Health Collection, a partnership between PLOS and the Maternal…
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General PLOS NTDs 5th Anniversary Tweetchat & Call for PapersRead more
As part of the journal’s ongoing fifth-anniversary celebration, PLOS Neglected Tropical Diseases invites readers and colleagues to join us for a tweet…
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General What can we learn from disease stigma’s long history?Read more
Sara Gorman from Harvard University takes a look at the history of infectious disease stigma. Although tremendous strides in fighting stigma and…