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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Collections No More Guesstimation: How to Reliably Estimate Trends in Child MortalityRead more
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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…
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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…
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General The roots of inaction: Understanding and overcoming the obstacles to greater investment in scaling-up effective diarrhea treatmentRead more
In the second of two posts guest blogger Oliver Sabot from the Clinton Health Access Initiative reflects on the challenge and opportunity…
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General Treating a deadly nuisance: On the trail of the simple yet elusive solution to the world’s second largest child-killerRead more
In the first of two posts guest blogger Oliver Sabot from the Clinton Health Access Initiative reflects on the challenge and opportunity…
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General This Week in PLOS Medicine: 1st line ARTs; Preterm birth in Africa; Urban health equity indicators & moreRead more
Five new articles published this week in PLOS Medicine: Thomas Campbell and colleagues report findings of a randomized trial conducted in multiple…
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General This Week in PLOS Medicine: 1st line ARTs; Preterm birth in Africa; Urban health equity indicators & moreRead more
Five new articles published this week in PLOS Medicine: Thomas Campbell and colleagues report findings of a randomized trial conducted in multiple…
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General Is it time to start evaluating social policy using randomised trials?Read more
Guest blogger Tom Yates calls for more randomised trials to evaluate social policy. In February, I went to see Rachel Glennerster speak…
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General Explaining Risk: Know Your AristotleRead more
I was shocked to discover recently that a professor colleague had not grasped the difference between absolute and relative risk. He was…