Guest blog by Benjamin P. Geisler, MD MPH, Senior Consultant, originally posted here A recent case of publication bias has fuelled the…

Almost a year ago I wrote a short post highlighting the work of the FERG (Foodborne Disease Burden Epidemiology Reference Group) at…

A new report released yesterday by the Nuffield Council on Bioethics explores the impact, and ethical consequences, of personalised healthcare in a…

Guest blog by Susan Shepherd, MD, Nutrition Coordinator, Médecins Sans Frontières/Doctors Without Borders (MSF), New York, NY, USA Susan Shepherd provides her…

Guest blog by Ann Akesson, MD, Medical Coordinator, Malawi, Médecins Sans Frontières/Doctors Without Borders (MSF) On October 4 and 5, at the…

Policy Cures, led by Director Mary Moran, has relaunched as an independent organization. I went to the relaunch at the London School…

Dr Rhona MacDonald, freelance editor, ([email protected]) The MDG Review Summit, or more precisely, The High level Plenary Meeting of the General Assembly…

I recently got alerted to this great post from R. W. Donnell, an internist in Arkansas who posts as Notes from Dr…

So peer review is broken, according to a recent piece in The Scientist: it’s slow, biased, arbitrary and overloads the community. But…

Dr Rhona MacDonald, Freelance editor, [email protected] As torrential rain and floods continue to devastate Pakistan, severe wild fires are rampaging across Russia…

Dr Rhona MacDonald, Freelance editor, [email protected] Last month’s monsoons brought a rapid increase of Plasmodium vivax malaria to the Indian city of…

Maggie Brown, MS, ELS is Senior Production Editor at PLoS On July 28, the UN General Assembly took an important step on…