Guest post by Mit Philips of MSF, the first of three guest posts from the 2011 ICASA conference in Addis Ababa. The…
-
General Africa AIDS Conference: Donor Retreat and its Consequences for Patients and CommunitiesRead more
-
General This Week in PLoS Medicine: Night shift & diabetes; Subdural hematomae; Traumatic brain injury & moreRead more
At the close of the year, PLoS Medicine has published five new articles, including our monthly editorial. The PLoS Medicine Editors discuss…
-
General Ensuring Respect for the Donated Brains of ChildrenRead more
Nature has reported on the tissue-bank shortage involving donations of brains from children1. An accompanying editorial highlights that the key to treatments…
-
General Media Release: Estimating Global Malaria IncidenceRead more
Estimates of malaria incidence derived from routine surveillance data suggest that 225 million episodes of malaria occurred worldwide in 2009. This estimate…
-
General This Week in PLoS Medicine: Cigarette additives; Sex-specific STI immunization; Incidence of malaria & moreRead more
Five new articles published this week in PLoS Medicine in a large publishing week ranging from toxins in cigarettes to human resource…
-
Maternal Newborn and Child Health Janani Suraksha Yojana — the Indian way of improving maternal and child healthRead more
After a brief visit to New Delhi, I want to share some of the insights I have gleaned from maternal and child…
-
Collections Ask the Expert – VMMC 2011: Twitter session todayRead more
On November 29, 2011, PLoS Medicine announced the publication of a sponsored collection, in conjunction with the Joint United Nations Programme on…
-
General Obama’s bioethics commission reports on international research protectionsRead more
A US standing Presidential Commission, asked to assure “that current rules for research participants protect people from harm or unethical treatment, domestically…
-
General This Week in PLoS Medicine: Treatment and recovery for trachomatous trichiasis; Group dynamics in research consortiumsRead more
In a randomized, non-inferiority trial, Saul Rajak and colleagues compare epilation and surgery for the management of minor trichiasis in Ethiopia, the…
-
General Reporting guidelines for systematic reviews that consider effects on health equityRead more
We would like to invite readers of Speaking of Medicine to complete a survey about which items should be reported in equity-oriented…
-
General A potential system to protect health during armed conflictRead more
“The Iraqi Governments decision to allow doctors to carry guns to protect themselves after many doctors were killed during the US invasion…
-
General Media release: UK burden of injury is 2.6 times higher than previously thoughtRead more
When using data and information derived from patient experiences, combined with additional morbidity data on patients treated in emergency departments and those…