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 The business of vaccinesRead more
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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…
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Policy Dreadful Deauville disappoints on healthRead more
Dr Rhona MacDonald, freelance editor, [email protected] The report stating the delivery and results of the latest G8 Commitments on Health and Food…
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General Balancing China’s basic rural health needs—perspectives from public health practitionersRead more
Guest blog by Angela Ni, Fulbright Fellow 2010-2011, Yunnan, China ([email protected]) When I first met Doctor Zhang he was sitting behind his…
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General Rinderpest: the puzzling story of a plague that is no longer a news storyRead more
Last week, to surprisingly little coverage, the World Organisation for Animal Health (OIE) officially announced that rinderpest had become the first animal…
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General This Week in PLoS Medicine: Alcohol industry; Flu vaccines & premature births; threshold hemoglobin values & moreRead more
Closing out May with a big publishing week, PLoS Medicine released five new articles this week, including our editorial and the continuation…
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General This Week in PLoS Medicine: H1N1 response in Mexico; Med students & pharma marketing; Migration & HealthRead more
This week, PLoS Medicine published four new articles, including the beginning of our six-part series on Migration and Health. Gerardo Chowell and…