This week PLoS Medicine publishes two new articles and starts off our Health Policy and Systems Research cluster. Jennifer Polinski and colleagues…
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General This Week in PLoS Medicine: Coverage gap in US Medicare; Health Policy and Systems ResearchRead more
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General Violence against health-care must end: it’s a matter of life and deathRead more
“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 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…