Three new articles publish this week in PLoS Medicine, including two related studies on tuberculosis by Luis Cuevas and colleagues. Luis Cuevas…
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General This Week in PLoS Medicine: Tuberculosis diagnostics; LED-FM microscopy; Incremental cost-effective ratiosRead more
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General Do all roads lead to ROME (Research Oriented Medical Education) in India?Read more
Research is a massively neglected part of undergraduate medical training in India. Students join undergraduate medical courses straight after high school, but…
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General TB & Me: The personal experiences of patients living with MDR-TBRead more
Guest post by Dr. Philipp du Cros, Head of the Manson Unit, Médecins Sans Frontières MSF (Doctors Without Borders), London, UK. What…
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Conference news Eliminate the Neglect: U.S. Support Needed to Expand Assault on Neglected DiseasesRead more
Guest post by Bernard Pecoul and Peter Hotez If you asked the average American if they’ve ever heard of sleeping sickness, river…
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General This Week in PLoS Medicine: Statistical prediction of flu; Risk outcomes of severe flu; PharmacovigilanceRead more
This week in PLoS Medicine, three new articles were published, with two research articles and a new piece from our magazine section…
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General Patient Voices: A digital library of healthcare storiesRead more
It is not always necessary to conduct a randomized controlled trial in order to improve health outcomes, sometimes all you need to…
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General Doctors’ lucrative relations with device companies revealedRead more
At PLoS Medicine we routinely examine conflicts of interest associated with the health influence of industries such as pharma, tobacco, and alcohol…
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General This Week in PLoS Medicine: Cardiac risks in pneumonia patients; US food consumption; Rural hygiene; Scaling up global healthRead more
This week four new articles were published in PLoS Medicine, with three research articles and one magazine piece. Vicente Corrales-Medina and colleagues…
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General Today: US National Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder Awareness DayRead more
PTSD, an anxiety disorder that may develop after a person experiences a terrifying event, is known to increase the risk of depression…
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General Redefining ‘home’ – migration in picturesRead more
Immigration policy has been in the news a lot recently, with EU ministers set to discuss an overhaul of the Schengen agreement…
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General World Refugee Day—new PLoS Medicine articlesRead more
43 million people are forcibly displaced right now—fleeing from conflict, persecution, or threats of imprisonment, hoping for shelter and safety. What’s worse…
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General This Week in PLoS Medicine: Human trafficking; H1N1 in Hong Kong; Migration & HealthRead more
This week PLoS Medicine publishes its monthly editorial to coincide with the final article in our Migration and Health series. In the…