Book Review: The Recession Hurt Many People, Now Austerity is Hurting More

By PLOS Guest Blogger
Posted: June 17, 2013
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Jean Adams from Newcastle University, UK reviews “The Body Economic: why austerity kills” by David Stuckler & Sanjay Basu

In early 2009, a few short months after Lehman Brothers filed for bankruptcy, an interesting debate broke out on the Health …

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PLOS ONE welcomes RIAT (Restoring Invisible and Abandoned Trials) Initiative

By Emma Veitch
Posted: June 17, 2013
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 Last week BMJ published an article proposing a new initiative aimed at solving an age-old problem in medical publishing: that of the perennial failure of investigators and sponsors to publish all of the results of all their trials, accurately …

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Living science: the importance of science experiences in Brazil

By Jean Flanagan
Posted: June 17, 2013
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This week we’re welcoming Roberta Manaa as a guest poster. Roberta has worked to connect the Brazilian public to cultural projects combining theater, cinema, and art with science since 2001. She is also a science fiction fan and has loved …

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Can better technology prevent drownings?

By John Rennie
Posted: June 17, 2013
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Forgive a scary statistic that may interfere with your summertime fun, but the month of June is already half over, which means that if past trends marked by the CDC have held true, then more than 200 people have …

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Thank you

By David Knutson
Posted: June 16, 2013
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The 27 sponsors of the Accelerating Science Award Program (ASAP) would like to extend a heartfelt thank you to everyone who submitted a nomination for the award. The breadth of potential winners is truly inspiring as nominations were received from …

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Goodbye PLOS Blogs, Welcome Github Pages

By Martin Fenner
Posted: June 15, 2013
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This is the last Gobbledygook post on PLOS Blogs, and at the same time the first post at the new Github blog location. I have been blogging at PLOS Blogs since the PLOS Blogs Network was launched in September …

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A week filming in Mongolia: local change-maker to bring global change.

By Alessandro Demaio, MD MPH
Posted: June 15, 2013
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Wrapping-up after a sensational week in Mongolia. Here to film a short-film for our recently-launched health advocacy initiative, we have spent the days profiling a young, inspiring, local, health change-maker – Byambaa.

NCDFREE is a global social movement against …

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PLOS ONE – Measuring Article Impact

By Damian Pattinson
Posted: June 14, 2013
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A common misconception of PLOS ONE is that just because we don’t consider perceived impact or novelty when deciding what to publish, doesn’t mean we don’t care about the impact of articles we publish. We of course understand that some …

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Summer Service Update

By Krista Hoff
Posted: June 14, 2013
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It’s mid-June and here in the US and in many other parts of the world, academics are taking advantage of the sunshine and long days to spend time in the field, attend conferences or on a well-deserved holiday. As a …

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Restoring Invisible and Abandoned Trials: A Creative Approach to a Public Good; Now a Creative Approach to Implementation is Needed

By Margaret Winker
Posted: June 13, 2013
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Margaret A. Winker, MD, Senior Research Editor, PLOS Medicine, and Virginia Barbour, MD, Chief Editor, PLOS Medicine, on behalf of the PLOS Medicine Editors.

The power of the concept that making results of all clinical trials accessible to researchers, clinicians, …

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