To mark the launch of the PLoS Medicine collection “Investigating the Impact of Treatment on New HIV Infections”, I caught up with…
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Collections Exploring the Possibility of HIV Treatment as Prevention: Interview with Timothy HallettRead more
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General This Week in PLoS Medicine: Emergency obstetrics; BasicNeeds; Malaria vector managementRead more
This week PLoS Medicine publishes three new articles, along with a new collection, Investigating the Impact of Treatment on New HIV Infections. To…
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Access Getting in the Access Loop: Time for Research and ActionRead more
In the first of a short series of posts, Anne Radl reflects on the Getting in the Access Loop webinar run last…
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General GlaxoSmithKline found guilty while complicit physicians remain unscathedRead more
Last week (2 July) the pharmaceutical company GlaxoSmithkline agreed to plead guilty to criminal charges and pay a record-breaking US$3 billion in…
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Big Food Is obesity simply about a lack of “balance”? Why Big Food wants you to be fitRead more
This blog was commisioned from Yoni Freedhoff to coincide with the final week of the PLoS Medicine series on Big Food &ndash…
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General New Approaches to Maternal Mortality in AfricaRead more
Earlier this week the Centre for Research in the Arts, Social Sciences and Humanities (CRASSH) at the University of Cambridge, UK hosted…
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Big Food 3rd and Final Installment of PLoS Medicine series on Big FoodRead more
Today we publish the remaining and final 3 articles commissioned for the PLoS Medicine series on Big Food – we think these…
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General This Week in PLoS Medicine: Pediatrics in rural Kenya; Coronary heart disease; Perinatal care in MumbaiRead more
Three new research articles published this week in PLoS Medicine, along with the close of our series on Big Food. A hospital-based…
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General Quorum Sensing Subversion and the Promise of Anti-Virulence TherapeuticsRead more
A wide variety of bacteria utilize a molecular communication pathway called “quorum sensing” to sense their fellow bacteria and coordinate group actions…
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General Shining more light on tobacco company tacticsRead more
Two papers in PLoS Medicine this week highlight again the tactics used by the tobacco industry when attempts are made to regulate…
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General This Week in PLoS Medicine: Tobacco policy; HIV & bacterial vaginosis; Big FoodRead more
Five new articles published this week in PLoS Medicine, including two research articles on tobacco policy, and the continuation of our Big…