Have management papers ever changed practice in healthcare?

By PLoS Guest Blogger
Posted: May 17, 2012

Guest blogger Trish Greenhalgh takes on a Twitter challenge

 

Sir Muir Gray, of evidence-based medicine fame, is a man who speaks his mind – often in 140 characters or fewer. “Show me a paper by a management …

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Major medical, science organizations prepare letter to TLC about its vaccine fear-mongering

By Seth Mnookin
Posted: May 17, 2012

Look out later today for a letter to the folks over at TLC about their crazy-making balderdash from a group of medical and science-based organizations. This may not be a complete list, but word is that the signatories will include:…

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UPDATE: Sun-Times endorsement of autism quackfest remains online even after editor claims it was “incorrect”

By Seth Mnookin
Posted: May 17, 2012

See the bottom of this post for an update on the Sun-Times‘s “proud support” of AutismOne.

On Sunday, the Chicago Sun-Times published a fawning, credulous Q&A with Jenny McCarthy, who has been more responsible than anyone in the …

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PLoS Appoints Two New Members to Board of Directors

By Darlene Yaplee
Posted: May 17, 2012

PLoS is pleased to announce that Heather Joseph and Robin Lovell-Badge will join the PLoS Board of Directors, effective May 19, 2012. “Heather and Robin will be terrific additions to the board, significantly broadening our expertise in outreach, policy, and …

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Malaria from many angles

By Rachel Bernstein
Posted: May 16, 2012

World Malaria Day may have come and gone, but our PLoS ONE authors certainly seem to be keeping in the spirit, with three new malaria-related publications in the last week.

On Friday, we published “Distributed Medical Image Analysis and …

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New Blog, New Name, New Home

By Deborah Blum
Posted: May 16, 2012

I’m joining the Wired Science Blog network as of today and starting there with a new blog name – Elemental - that I think better reflects the way I’ve evolved as a writer fascinated by with our chemical world. As …

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TLC disappears comments, edits its turd of an anti-vaccine piece. It still stinks.

By Seth Mnookin
Posted: May 16, 2012

As discussed yesterday, the folks over at TLC seem to have buried their heads in the sand when it comes to vaccines. Apparently, though, their love of misinformation hasn’t quite overwhelmed their desire not to be publicly ridiculed: Over …

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Maternal Mortality Falling – But Still Too High

By PLoS Guest Blogger
Posted: May 16, 2012

Today’s new estimates of maternal mortality from the United Nations’ Maternal Mortality Estimation Inter-Agency Group (MMEIG) are good news – but not good enough. All the evidence points to more than a quarter of a million of women still dying …

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This Week in PLoS Medicine: Pregnancy in DART trial; Health & pharmaceutical R&D

By Michael Morris
Posted: May 16, 2012

Three new articled published this week in PLoS Medicine, including two magazine pieces on R&D:

Diana Gibb and colleagues investigate the effect of in utero tenofovir exposure by analysing the pregnancy and infant outcomes of HIV-infected women enrolled in …

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Not allowed to have a small heart: Tourette Syndrome

By gregdowney
Posted: May 16, 2012

Sometimes I feel ashamed to be close with my friends.
“How come you’re so distant? Just come over here, it’s no problem, you know.”
I’m not allowed to have a small heart.

Gusti Ayu Ketut Suartini, a young Balinese woman, …

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