We’re always interested at PLoS Medicine in different perspectives on the ghostwriting problem. Following considerable news coverage of our recent Stern and…
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General Ghostwriting – how does academic medicine justify it?Read more
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General World Music with a Global Health MessageRead more
Last weekend I had the pleasure of watching Benda Bilili, a music documentary which was released in the UK earlier this year…
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Access Freely available review of randomised trials in child health: a public goodRead more
This year’s review booklet of Randomised Trials on Child health in Developing Countries–compiled annually to summarize the evidence on child health derived…
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General Dear Doctor: If you take credit for a ghostwritten article, you could be suedRead more
Ghostwriting is not only an unethical practice, but it may also constitute legal fraud, according to an article by University of Toronto…
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General Dear Doctor: If you take credit for a ghostwritten article, you could be suedRead more
Ghostwriting is not only an unethical practice, but it may also constitute legal fraud, according to an article by University of Toronto…
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Policy Decision rendered on the Prostitution PledgeRead more
This guest blog is from Nicole F. Masenior and Chris Beyrer, Senior Research Coordinator and Director respectively of the Center for Public…
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General This Week in PLoS Medicine: Health care during armed conflicts & GeneXpertRead more
With the close of the July issue of PLoS Medicine, we publish six new articles, including the monthly editorial. In this month’s…
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Conference news Treatment as prevention: we urgently need policy guidanceRead more
The International AIDS Society conference on HIV Pathogenesis, Treatment and Prevention in Rome has been hailed as a landmark conference for HIV…
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General HIV: why are so many mothers and children still dying?Read more
Last year we published an Editorial arguing that the time had come to integrate prevention and treatment of HIV into maternal and…
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Conference news HIV: Treatment is the new prevention – and prevention worksRead more
Prevention is the buzzword at the Sixth International AIDS Society Conference on HIV Pathogenesis, Treatment and Prevention(IAS 2011). Whether its the just-published…
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MSF Capreomycin shortage: symptom of a bigger problem in multidrug-resistant tuberculosisRead more
Guest post by Grania Brigden. Grania is the TB advisor to the MSF Campaign for Access to Essential Medicines. There is currently…
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General Energy Density, Portion Size, and Eating Occasions: the media responseRead more
At the end of June, PLoS Medicine published an obesity-related paper by Kiyah Duffey and Barry Popkin, which caused a big media…