The Centre for Reviews and Dissemination, based at the University of York in the UK, has just launched a new initiative for…
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Policy Reducing bias in systematic reviews – a bid for registrationRead more
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Policy UK government and food industry in bizarre allianceRead more
The UK government has signalled an alarming change of policy on the regulation of the food industry. As reported in the Guardian…
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Policy Complicity or Abolition? The catastrophic consequences of good intentionsRead more
Dr Rhona MacDonald, Freelance editor ([email protected]) Would it surprise or even shock you to know that the European Commission, (http://ec.europa.eu/) individual European…
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General Why animal research needs reporting guidelines: improving ethics and translationRead more
This week PLoS Biology publishes a Perspective and related editorial discussing the ARRIVE (Animal Research: Reporting In Vivo Experiments) guidelines, aimed towards…
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Maternal Newborn and Child Health Time to Deliver: Series on Maternal, Newborn and Child Health in sub-Saharan AfricaRead more
In June PLoS Medicine launched a series on maternal, newborn and child health in sub-Saharan Africa. Two Policy Forums and an Editorial…
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General Making drug and device regulation more transparent — FDA invites public comment on proposalsRead more
As part of its longstanding efforts towards providing greater accountability, the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has just released a set…
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General Mother-to-child HIV transmission – stigma barrier to progressRead more
Guest blog by Ditte A. Søndergaard1, Simone C. Hald1,3, Jeffrey V. Lazarus2,3 1 Department of Public Health, Copenhagen University, Copenhagen, Denmark 2…
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General MSF: Access to medicines must be preserved and improved at the World Health AssemblyRead more
Guest blog by Dr. Tido von Schoen-Angerer, Executive Director, Access to Essential Medicines Campaign, Médecins Sans Frontières/Doctors Without Borders (MSF), Geneva, Switzerland…
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General After US Health Reform—What Comes Next?Read more
Guest blog by Gavin Yamey, lead, E2Pi (Evidence-to-Policy initiative), Global Health Group, University of California San Francisco. [email protected] The dust has now…
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Conference news The Toronto Charter on Physical Activity: A Global Call for ActionRead more
The 3rd International Congress on Physical Activity and Public Health concluded today with the release of The Toronto Charter on Physical Activity…
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Conference news 3 cents a day is not enough to halt drug-related HIV-epidemicRead more
I’m currently at the International Harm Reduction Association (IHRA) annual conference in Liverpool, UK, learning about the growing problem of injection drug…
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Access Open Access to Development Data: The World Bank’s New Open Data InitiativeRead more
Guest blog by Meghan Reidy and Marco Schäferhoff, Evidence to Policy Initiative (E2Pi), San Francisco, USA. The World Bank announced this week…