Today’s new estimates of maternal mortality from the United Nations’ Maternal Mortality Estimation Inter-Agency Group (MMEIG) are good news – but not…
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General Maternal Mortality Falling – But Still Too HighRead more
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General This Week in PLoS Medicine: Co-proxamol deaths; Aid & govt spending; HIV & TB in prisonsRead more
Three new articles published this week in PLoS Medicine: A time-series study conducted by Keith Hawton and colleagues reports on the links…
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General Poop Excavated from Old Latrines Finds New LifeRead more
What good is human excrement? For most of us, it’s something to be flushed away, washed off, and certainly not discussed in…
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General Short-Term Surgical Mission: A Vehicle for Sustainable Surgical Care Delivery?Read more
Guest bloggers Gita Mody, JaBaris Swain and Maurice Musoni discuss sustainable surgical care delivery and their experience in Rwanda with Team Heart…
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Access Conflict and Open Access: A Tale of Two ConferencesRead more
For medical students interested in advocacy, action and debate, the last weekend of Easter provided all three in buckets at two of…
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General This Week in PLoS Medicine: BMI & ischemic heart disease; Nigerian midwivesRead more
Two new articles published this week in PLoS Medicine: A Mendelian randomization analysis conducted by Børge G. Nordestgaard and colleagues using data…
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General Sugar: A Popular Poison?Read more
Yesterday, for me, marked the true end of the Easter festivities as I solemnly finished the last of my Easter eggs. I…
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MSF Responding to Malaria: A View from the GroundRead more
Today we recognize World Malaria Day, a day that for me is filled with contradictions. There are many reasons to feel encouraged…
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Access Open Access and HIFA2015 – where next?Read more
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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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…