Ginny Barbour, Chief Editor PLoS Medicine, and Neil Pakenham-Walsh, Coordinator, HIFA2015 and CHILD2015 Co-director, Global Healthcare Information Network A few weeks ago…
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Access Open Access and HIFA2015 – where next?Read more
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General This Week in PLoS Medicine: Competing interests and bias; PPROM; Gaps in health researchRead more
Closing out our April publishing month, PLoS Medicine publishes three new articles, including the monthly editorial which revisits conflicts of interest policies…
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Collections New PLoS Neglected Tropical Diseases Collection Charts a Course for Elimination of HelminthiasesRead more
More than half of the world’s population is at risk of helminthiases (parasitic worms), and hundreds of millions of people are currently…
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Collections New PLoS Neglected Tropical Diseases Collection Charts a Course for Elimination of HelminthiasesRead more
More than half of the world’s population is at risk of helminthiases (parasitic worms), and hundreds of millions of people are currently…
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MSF Time to make TB the enemy that can’t hideRead more
As the Kony 2012 campaign continues to sear the image of Joseph Kony into the world’s consciousness, it’s worth remembering that there…
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General This Week in PLoS Medicine: CD4 count prediction; Silica dust exposure; BCoDE projectRead more
Three new articles published this week in PLoS Medicine. Luis Montaner and colleagues retrospectively apply a potential capacity-saving CD4 count prediction tool…
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General Increased Information Transparency is Needed to Fight Air Pollution in ChinaRead more
Guest blogger Mike Frick from Asia Catalyst discusses the problem of air pollution in China and the need for better information. One…
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General This Week in PLoS Medicine: Metformin efficacy; Food insecurity & HIV risk; Sharing clinical study reports & moreRead more
This week in PLoS Medicine, four new articles were released. Catherine Cornu and colleagues performed a meta-analysis of randomised controlled trials of…
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General The Dangers of SpringRead more
For those of us in the Northern Hemisphere, the last few weeks have marked the beginning of spring. The trees are in…
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General World Health Day: A new look at old ageRead more
The theme for this year’s World Health Day (held on April 7th) is aging and health. Under the title of ‘Good health…
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Collections Exploring the History of Malaria Transmission ModelingRead more
Mosquitoes are responsible for the transmission of a multitude of pathogens including malaria, dengue and West Nile virus. Modeling the transmission patterns…
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Conference news Conflicted: The War for HealthRead more
CONFLICTED: THE WAR FOR GLOBAL HEALTH MEDSIN GLOBAL HEALTH CONFERENCE 14th-15th April 2012 King’s College London As National Coordinator of Medsin, I…