This week, PLOS Medicine publishes two new Research Articles with associated Perspectives. Lieven Huybregts and colleagues investigate how supplementing a general food…
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General This Week in PLOS Medicine: RUSF supplement for malnutrition; Statins for venous thrombotic eventsRead more
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General Getting in the Access Loop: Nurturing the Open Access EcosystemRead more
In the last post of a short series reflecting on the Getting in the Access Loop webinar organised by the Humanitarian Centre, HIFA2015 and PLOS, Marina…
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General This Week in PLOS Medicine: Quality of life with kidney disease; Spin of RCTs; Aid for blood transfusionsRead more
This week PLOS Medicine publishes three new articles: Melanie Wyld and colleagues examined the utility-based quality of life of various treatments for…
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Book Review Book Review: A Maternal and Perinatal Health ‘How-to Manual’ with a DifferenceRead more
Natasha Hezelgrave from Kings College London reviews ‘Maternal and Perinatal Health in Developing Countries’ Maternal mortality represents one of the starkest disparities…
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General Why the United States Needs Better Confidentiality Laws for Minors with HIV/AIDSRead more
At the beginning of the International AIDS Conference held in Washington, D.C. in July, Secretary of State Hillary Clinton renewed the United…
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General This Week in PLOS Medicine: Plasmodium vivax; Gender & HIV; Point-of-care testingRead more
With the start of September, PLOS Medicine publishes three new articles: Ivo Mueller and colleagues examined the association of Southeast Asian ovalocytosis…
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General This Week in PLOS Medicine: Plasmodium vivax; Gender & HIV; Point-of-care testingRead more
With the start of September, PLOS Medicine publishes three new articles: Ivo Mueller and colleagues examined the association of Southeast Asian ovalocytosis…
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Collections No More Guesstimation: How to Reliably Estimate Trends in Child MortalityRead more
Reliable estimates of child mortality are critical for monitoring progress toward Millennium Development Goal 4 (MDG-4), so I asked Dr. Kenneth Hill…
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General This Week in PLOS Medicine: Urban air quality; MDR-TB outcomes; Extractive industriesRead more
Wrapping up the month of August, PLOS Medicine publishes three new articles, including our monthly editorial, and a new sponsored collection: The…
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General A new era dawns for death registrationRead more
OK, so registering deaths isn’t at the top of every health professional’s list of glamorous and essential priorities. But actually the information…
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MSF Emergency epidemiology-what does this mean?Read more
‘Mortality rates in a refugee camp in South Sudan are nearly double the threshold for an emergency, Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) has…
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General This Week in PLOS Medicine: Plasmodium falciparum; HIV stigma & maternal health; blood pressure & moreRead more
Five new articles published this week in PLOS Medicine ranging from malaria to HIV to cardiovascular health. Arjen Dondorp and colleagues investigate…