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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Global Health “No Health Without Research” Collection: Minding the Gap Between Research Needs and Research OutputRead more
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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…
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Global Health Bringing the Global into Global Health EthicsRead more
Clinical ethics have become far too preoccupied with the individual, autonomy and informed consent, argued Baroness Onora O’Neill at the Nuffield Council…
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General WHO steps up and addresses the issue of attacks on health workers and facilitiesRead more
Guest post by Leonard Rubenstein and Katherine Footer. The consternation of the international community in response to attacks on health workers, patients…
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General This Week in PLoS Medicine: Stroke outcomes; Gestational diabetes; Cervical cancer preventionRead more
Three new articles were published this week in PLoS Medicine, with two new research articles, one featuring translated abstracts, and an update…