Today, there are ever more pressing needs for up-to-date information to be quickly available and easily accessible. This has never been more…

This week wraps up the publishing month of March with our monthly editorial and three other new articles. The PLoS Medicine Editors…

The fifth edition of the American Psychiatric Association’s Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (DSM-5) will be published next year, but…

This World TB Day there is an emphasis on children, which is long overdue. Until now, children have largely been excluded from…

Those of you with more than a passing interest in publication bias and other threats to the integrity of the research literature…

Global aspirations I like this year’s STOP TB partnership World TB Day campaign approach. It is ambitious, but I, for one, have…

The United Nations General Assembly declared March 22, 1993 the first World Water Day. This year, the event is coordinated by FAO …

As a project manager for MSF (Médecins Sans Frontières/Doctors Without Borders), a medical emergency humanitarian agency, I attended this year’s South by…

Four new articles were published this week in PLoS Medicine, including the end to a series on Health Systems Guidance. A comparison…

Guest bloggers Gita Mody, Robin Petroze & Edmond Ntaganda discuss efforts to strengthen surgical care in Rwanda. In March 2011, the Rwanda…

It’s easy to get overwhelmed by all the news hurtling at us today – especially when we are all rather inured to…

After weeks of debate, the decision was finally made in February to publish in full two studies that report the cultivation of…