“One of the first victims of war is the health-care system itself,” according to Marco Baldan, the chief war surgeon of the…
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General Violence against health-care must end: it’s a matter of life and deathRead more
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General This Week in PLoS Medicine: Cost effective & accurate TB diagnoses; Ghostwriting perspectivesRead more
Four new articles were published this week in PLoS Medicine, including two fascinating Perspectives on the ghostwriting phenomenon in medical writing. Madhukar…
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General Medical, public health and economic consequences of bad diagnostics for tuberculosisRead more
Guest post by Madhukar Pai, David W. Dowdy and Karen R Steingart, tuberculosis (TB) researchers at McGill University, Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School…
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General Ghostwriting – how does academic medicine justify it?Read more
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 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…