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 This Week in PLoS Medicine: Cardiac risks in pneumonia patients; US food consumption; Rural hygiene; Scaling up global healthRead more
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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…
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General The business of vaccinesRead more
Given the current economic climate, the sight of countries trying to outbid each other in their generosity to pledge money for vaccines…
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General Sri Lanka’s killing fields: the need for the International Health Protection InitiativeRead more
“A hard-hitting investigation into the final weeks of the Sri Lankan civil war, featuring devastating video evidence of horrific war crimes”—the website…
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General This Week in PLoS Medicine: HAART and HIV in DR Congo; blood pressure in the UK; the health risks to migrants of ‘interception strategies’Read more
Two Research Articles, a Policy Forum, and the fifth installment of our Migration and Health series were published in this week’s PLoS…
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Global Health “No Health Without Research” Collection: Minding the Gap Between Research Needs and Research OutputRead more
Research output is forever increasing — an average of seventy-five trials, and eleven systematic reviews per day, on the last count, which…
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General World report on disability goes liveRead more
The World Bank and the World Health Organization have just released the first ever report on the extent of disability worldwide which…
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General Complicity of medical personnel in torture at Guantánamo Bay: how the media respondedRead more
As you may be aware, just over a month ago PLoS Medicine published research by Vincent Iacopino and Stephen Xenakis that reviewed…
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General This Week in PLoS Medicine: Mapping anemia risk; Flu & invasive pneumococcal disease; Migration & HealthRead more
This week week, four new articles were published in PLoS Medicine, including the continuation of our Migration and Health series. Ricardo Soares…