With the last publishing day of February, PLoS Medicine publishes our monthly editorial followed up with two new articles. In this editorial…
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General This Week in PLoS Medicine: Registering systematic reviews; Health behaviors; Dengue vaccinesRead more
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Policy What is PLoS Medicine’s policy on trials registration?Read more
It’s now well over five years since the International Committee of Medical Journal Editors announced a policy requiring that clinical trials considered…
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General Is funding into Neglected Diseases being misdirected?Read more
Yesterday I attended the launch of the third G-FINDER report on Global Funding of Research and Development into Neglected Diseases. The report…
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General US and Zimbabwean press weigh in on PLoS Medicine articleRead more
Last Tuesday we published a Policy Forum article discussing the “remarkable” decline of HIV in Zimbabwe. It drew upon three primary studies…
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General This Week in PLoS Medicine: Iraqi civilian deaths; Intravaginal practices & HIV; Water softeners & eczemaRead more
Madelyn Hsiao-Rei Hicks and colleagues provide a detailed analysis of the 92,614 Iraqi civilian violent deaths during 2003-2008 of the Iraq war…
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General Tobacco industry again in the firing lineRead more
This week the government of Newfoundland & Labrador filed a lawsuit against more than a dozen tobacco manufacturers to recover the costs…
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General A Story of Renewable Energy Use in Rural ChinaRead more
Guest blog by Angela Ni, Fulbright Fellow 2010-2011, Yunnan, China (angela.ni@fulbrightmail.org) Nestled in the foothills of central Yunnan, Caotianba is a small…
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General This Week in PLoS Medicine: Adolescent alcohol use; Human rights in Burma; HIV decline in ZimbabweRead more
Three new articles were published this week in PLoS Medicine: In a systematic review of cohort studies of adolescent drinking and later…
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General Emergency Medicine Australasia no longer accepting drug company advertisingRead more
The journal, Emergency Medicine Australasia, has just announced it will no longer accept advertising from drug companies. In an editorial announcing the…
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General The future of US health reform lies in the hands of one manRead more
Guest blog by Gavin Yamey, lead, Evidence to Policy Initiative, Global Health Group, University of California San Francisco It has become increasingly…
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Policy A new resolution on health protection during armed conflictRead more
Dr Rhona MacDonald, freelance editor, rhonamacdonald@gmail.com A new resolution that stresses the importance of health protection during armed conflict has recently been launched…
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General This Week in PLoS Medicine: IPTc for Malaria in children; Drug approval policies for AfricaRead more
Five new articles were published this week in PLoS Medicine, including three articles on ITPc for malaria and a Perspective on these…