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Monthly Archives: July 2011
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May 2012
- The Mysteries of the Mind
- Have management papers ever changed practice in healthcare?
- Maternal Mortality Falling – But Still Too High
- This Week in PLoS Medicine: Pregnancy in DART trial; Health & pharmaceutical R&D
- This Week in PLoS Medicine: Co-proxamol deaths; Aid & govt spending; HIV & TB in prisons
- Poop Excavated from Old Latrines Finds New Life
- Short-Term Surgical Mission: A Vehicle for Sustainable Surgical Care Delivery?
- Conflict and Open Access: A Tale of Two Conferences
- This Week in PLoS Medicine: BMI & ischemic heart disease; Nigerian midwives
April 2012
- Sugar: A Popular Poison?
- Responding to Malaria: A View from the Ground
- New PLoS Neglected Tropical Diseases Collection Charts a Course for Elimination of Helminthiases
- This Week in PLoS Medicine: Competing interests and bias; PPROM; Gaps in health research
- Open Access and HIFA2015 - where next?
- Time to make TB the enemy that can’t hide
- This Week in PLoS Medicine: CD4 count prediction; Silica dust exposure; BCoDE project
- Increased Information Transparency is Needed to Fight Air Pollution in China
- This Week in PLoS Medicine: Metformin efficacy; Food insecurity & HIV risk; Sharing clinical study reports & more
- The Dangers of Spring
- World Health Day: A new look at old age
- Exploring the History of Malaria Transmission Modeling
- Conflicted: The War for Health
- This Week in PLoS Medicine: Human rights in Darfur; Body size & ovarian cancer & more
- Why Do We Create Clinical Practice Guidelines?
March 2012
- It's Good to Talk: Reflections from the IFMSA General Assembly in Ghana
- Candid Corrections and Responsible Retractions: Lessons Learned from COPE 2012
- This Week in PLoS Medicine: VBAC; cART during PHI; IPTi & more
- Announcing PLoS Currents: Disasters
- Conflicts of interest and DSM-5: the media reaction
- Zero MDR-TB deaths in children in my lifetime?
- A Spotlight on Children With TB
- Silent takedown of the pharma trials database…and more
- Today is World Water Day (March 22, 2012)
- This Week in PLoS Medicine: Publication bias; CD4 count in AIDS; Health Systems Guidance
- Geeks and primitive fieldworkers: a tale of two cultures
- Strengthening Rwandan Surgery: Surgical Residents’ Perspective
- Flu Debate Highlights Opacity of Public Health Research
- #eyesonsyria or how to get eyes on the unwatchable
- This Week in PLoS Medicine: VBAC; DSM conflicts of interest; Health systems guidance
- Happy International Women's Day - two steps forward, one step back?
- Putting the World in World Kidney Day
- PLoS/HIFA2015 Webinar, 28th March 2012: Can Open Access publishing provide Healthcare Information For All by 2015?
- Pharmaceutical R&D's Costly Myths
- This Week in PLoS Medicine: Cancer & contraceptives in South Africa; Neonatal care in LMICs; Pregnancy in smoke-free Scotland & more
- What is a traumatic experience if you live in Mogadishu?
- Traumatic Brain Injury and Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder: A Causal Link?
- Pathogens and People: Reflections from Haiti
February 2012
- This Week in PLoS Medicine: End-of-life care; Clean Delivery Kits; Mortality in seniors & more
- Speaking of Medsin…
- Is it okay to be just another researcher?
- This Week in PLoS Medicine: Life cycles & malaria drugs; Homocysteine & heart health; Text messages & health delivery
- Media Release: High blood homocysteine levels are not linked with coronary heart disease
- Challenges and Controversies in Choosing a Model Organism
- This Week in PLoS Medicine: Complexity of non-pharm caregiving; Cost effectiveness of HAART
- Shift Work, Diet and Type 2 Diabetes: The Media Response
- This Week in PLoS Medicine: Mild cognitive impairment; Clostridium difficile; Engaging men in HIV prevention
- Media Release: Transmission of Clostridium difficile in Hospitals May Not Be Through Contact with Infected Patients
- The Tomorrow of Neglected Tropical Diseases
January 2012
- New collection of articles explores the science, application, and regulation of genetically modified insects for disease control
- This Week in PLoS Medicine: New Year's review; Psychotropics; E-prescriptions & more
- Sanitation is Key in Controlling Worm Diseases
- Why is Research Critical to Stop Tuberculosis?
- This Week in PLoS Medicine: Sanitation & infection; adult mortality in Japan; Ghostwriting in the courts
- Media Release: Tobacco smoking and high blood pressure are biggest killers of Japanese adults
- This Week in PLoS Medicine: RTS,S malaria vaccine; hospitalization of children with neurological impairment; & more
- Media Release: New model for possible malaria vaccination suggests mass vaccination should be considered for very low transmission areas
- Treating Trichiasis
- This Week in PLoS Medicine: WHO's PMTCT; WTO compulsory licenses; & more
- MSF: initial outcomes of combination treatment for HIV and visceral leishmaniasis co-infection
- False positive HIV tests: the problem no one wants to talk about (and how to solve it)
December 2011
- Africa AIDS Conference: Donor Retreat and its Consequences for Patients and Communities
- This Week in PLoS Medicine: Night shift & diabetes; Subdural hematomae; Traumatic brain injury & more
- Ensuring Respect for the Donated Brains of Children
- This Week in PLoS Medicine: Cigarette additives; Sex-specific STI immunization; Incidence of malaria & more
- Media Release: Estimating Global Malaria Incidence
- Ask the Expert – VMMC 2011: Twitter session today
- Janani Suraksha Yojana — the Indian way of improving maternal and child health
- Obama's bioethics commission reports on international research protections
- This Week in PLoS Medicine: Treatment and recovery for trachomatous trichiasis; Group dynamics in research consortiums
- Reporting guidelines for systematic reviews that consider effects on health equity
- A potential system to protect health during armed conflict
- This Week in PLoS Medicine: Burden of injuries; Night shift & diabetes; Policing counterfeit drugs
- Media release: UK burden of injury is 2.6 times higher than previously thought
- Call for Papers: Quality of maternal health care
- What should the ethical protections be in cluster trials?
- Mental health care in conflict zones
November 2011
- Voluntary Medical Male Circumcision (VMMC) - a cost-effective HIV prevention measure in eastern and southern Africa: a UNAIDS and PEPFAR collection
- This Week in PLoS Medicine: Maternal Health; How to Stop TB?; PLoS Medicine/UNAIDS Collection
- How can we improve peer review: the impact of reporting guidelines
- What is Health Systems Strengthening?
- From 'No Health Without Research' to 'Research for Health' – World Health Report 2012
- This Week in PLoS Medicine: Micronutrients & malaria; Gender & HIV stigma; Research governance
- World Day of Remembrance for Road Traffic Victims
- Celebrate World Toilet Day, November 19, 2011
- This Week in PLoS Medicine: PrEP strategies for HIV prevention; WHO mhGAP
- WHO: what is the truth about the current situation?
- World Pneumonia Day: Saturday 12th November
- This Week in PLoS Medicine: 4ABC & malaria; Xpert diagnosis; Preterm birth outcomes; Global health education
- A rollercoaster of emotions at Union World Lung Health conference
- Being bold on a budget at Lille
- Paediatric tuberculosis: out of the dark
- This Week in PLoS Medicine: Physical activity and obesity risk; Towards an Equity-Focused Health Research Agenda
October 2011
- How to Use PLoS's Advanced Search Function
- This Week in PLoS Medicine: Rapid diagnostics; Heart health & diabetes; Follow-up in HIV treatment & more
- Over 1 Million Dead in Road Traffic Crashes This Year
- This Week in PLoS Medicine: Predicting polio outbreaks; Community-wide vaccination; Scale-up in medical education
- This Week in PLoS Medicine: Antibiotic-resistant BSIs; Raw vegetables & heart health; Child contacts of TB cases
- Medical assistance and crisis mapping: is the hype justified?
- This Week in PLoS Medicine: Serologic data on flu infection; HIV self-testing; Disparities in DNA databases
September 2011
- Mobile treatment teams and new drugs: the fight against sleeping sickness
- Diagnosing tuberculosis: Can India take the lead?
- Sustainability for abolition of user fees in Africa: shared responsibility for a complex problem
- This Week in PLoS Medicine: ART in Haiti; Alcohol-related mortality; humanitarian psychosocial support
- Health Worker Crisis: Time For Action
- Child deaths have fallen rapidly since 1990 but not enough
- PLoS Medicine in the media: August 2011
- This Week in PLoS Medicine: Genes in hep C treatment; Predicting trauma recovery; African doctoral programs & more
- Failed vaccine campaigns are a global issue
- Supporting the right to constructive debate
- This Week in PLoS Medicine: Alcohol & women's health; Insecticide-treated nets; UN on NCDs; New metrics
August 2011
- This Week in PLoS Medicine: Ghostwriting; Dengue & population density; Neonatal mortality & more!
- WASHwatch: helping to hold governments to account on their commitments to the fundamental foundations of health.
- Should films with smoking have adult-ratings?
- This Week in PLoS Medicine: Tobacco's corporate social responsibility; Health policy & systems research; smoking in films
- This Week in PLoS Medicine: Coverage gap in US Medicare; Health Policy and Systems Research
- Encouraging developments for universal access to health care
- Violence against health-care must end: it’s a matter of life and death
- This Week in PLoS Medicine: Cost effective & accurate TB diagnoses; Ghostwriting perspectives
- Medical, public health and economic consequences of bad diagnostics for tuberculosis
- Ghostwriting – how does academic medicine justify it?
- Freely available review of randomised trials in child health: a public good
- World Music with a Global Health Message
- Dear Doctor: If you take credit for a ghostwritten article, you could be sued
July 2011
- Decision rendered on the Prostitution Pledge
- This Week in PLoS Medicine: Health care during armed conflicts & GeneXpert
- Treatment as prevention: we urgently need policy guidance
- HIV: why are so many mothers and children still dying?
- This Week in PLoS Medicine: Clinic treatment of HIV; Pre-ART treatment; African First Aid Materials
- Energy Density, Portion Size, and Eating Occasions: the media response
- Capreomycin shortage: symptom of a bigger problem in multidrug-resistant tuberculosis
- HIV: Treatment is the new prevention - and prevention works
- Aid access to Somalia: there must be no hidden agenda to humanitarianism
- African Conference on Sanitation MDG 19-21 July 2011
- The science of outcomes: how far have we come?
- WHO guidance on household water treatment published
- This Week in PLoS Medicine: Tuberculosis diagnostics; LED-FM microscopy; Incremental cost-effective ratios
- TB & Me: The personal experiences of patients living with MDR-TB
- Do all roads lead to ROME (Research Oriented Medical Education) in India?
- Eliminate the Neglect: U.S. Support Needed to Expand Assault on Neglected Diseases
- This Week in PLoS Medicine: Statistical prediction of flu; Risk outcomes of severe flu; Pharmacovigilance
June 2011
- Doctors' lucrative relations with device companies revealed
- Patient Voices: A digital library of healthcare stories
- This Week in PLoS Medicine: Cardiac risks in pneumonia patients; US food consumption; Rural hygiene; Scaling up global health
- Today: US National Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder Awareness Day
- Redefining 'home' - migration in pictures
- World Refugee Day—new PLoS Medicine articles
- This Week in PLoS Medicine: Human trafficking; H1N1 in Hong Kong; Migration & Health
- Sri Lanka’s killing fields: the need for the International Health Protection Initiative
- This Week in PLoS Medicine: HAART and HIV in DR Congo; blood pressure in the UK; the health risks to migrants of 'interception strategies'
- The business of vaccines
- "No Health Without Research" Collection: Minding the Gap Between Research Needs and Research Output
- World report on disability goes live
- Complicity of medical personnel in torture at Guantánamo Bay: how the media responded
- This Week in PLoS Medicine: Mapping anemia risk; Flu & invasive pneumococcal disease; Migration & Health
- Dreadful Deauville disappoints on health
- Balancing China’s basic rural health needs—perspectives from public health practitioners
May 2011
- This Week in PLoS Medicine: Alcohol industry; Flu vaccines & premature births; threshold hemoglobin values & more
- Rinderpest: the puzzling story of a plague that is no longer a news story
- This Week in PLoS Medicine: H1N1 response in Mexico; Med students & pharma marketing; Migration & Health
- Bringing the Global into Global Health Ethics
- WHO steps up and addresses the issue of attacks on health workers and facilities
- This Week in PLoS Medicine: Stroke outcomes; Gestational diabetes; Cervical cancer prevention
- HIFA2015 Conference: lack of access to healthcare information is lethal
- This Week in PLoS Medicine: Snakebites in Sri Lanka; post-MDG global health agreements
- This Week in PLoS Medicine: Aripiprazole & bipolar disorder; Meta-analyses of Adverse Effects; cART & more
April 2011
- This Week in PLoS Medicine: Torture at Guantánamo Bay; MSF in Haiti
- MSF on World Malaria Day: Improving treatment for severe malaria
- This Week in PLoS Medicine: Rotavirus vaccines in Brazil; Exercise for Chilean elderly; IHR and antimicrobial resistance
- Tackling the Global Epidemic of Non-Communicable Diseases
- Cambodia’s Doomed PREP Trial: What Happened Next?
- This Week in PLoS Medicine: Private health foundations; Private vs public ambulatory care; Mosquito net use
- A City of Joy in the midst of hell
- World Health Day: Combating antimicrobial resistance
- Accountable Care Organizations in the U.S.
- This Week in PLoS Medicine: PCV7 vaccination; Clinical training; Off-label pharmaceuticals & more
- Patent pool party highlights lack of access to HIV drugs
- Meeting rural water and sanitation needs in Yunnan, China.
March 2011
- Poverty, Infections and Inequality in the World's Richest Country
- Open Access: going the last few miles
- This Week in PLoS Medicine: OA in the developing world; HIV transmission in breastfeeding
- MSF: Discussing Alex - dilemmas in tuberculosis treatment
- TB @ PLoS
- This Week in PLoS Medicine: LiST; Genetic analysis of PROMISSE; BCG World Atlas
- This Week in PLoS Medicine: WHO retreatment for TB; HRT promotions; GRIPS Statement
- Cambridge Global health Conference: Students are leading the way
- This Week in PLoS Medicine: Economic growth in India; Predictions from translational trials
- Addressing the Needs of Cancer Survivors: An Emerging Global Challenge
- Are White Coats Turncoats?
- This Week in PLoS Medicine: HAART treatment adherence; HIV treatment in Ukraine
February 2011
- Encouraging best practice in systematic reviews
- This Week in PLoS Medicine: Registering systematic reviews; Health behaviors; Dengue vaccines
- What is PLoS Medicine's policy on trials registration?
- Is funding into Neglected Diseases being misdirected?
- This Week in PLoS Medicine: Iraqi civilian deaths; Intravaginal practices & HIV; Water softeners & eczema
- US and Zimbabwean press weigh in on PLoS Medicine article
- Tobacco industry again in the firing line
- A Story of Renewable Energy Use in Rural China
- This Week in PLoS Medicine: Adolescent alcohol use; Human rights in Burma; HIV decline in Zimbabwe
- Emergency Medicine Australasia no longer accepting drug company advertising
- The future of US health reform lies in the hands of one man
- This Week in PLoS Medicine: IPTc for Malaria in children; Drug approval policies for Africa
- A new resolution on health protection during armed conflict
January 2011
- This Week in PLoS Medicine: Call for papers; Distance to treatment; Delphi technique; malERA
- No Health Without Research – World Health Report for 2012
- Joint Statement of the malERA Leadership Council on Supplement in PLoS Medicine
- malERA Supplement: a research agenda for malaria eradication
- Cuban doctors: overlooked champions of the health and human resources crisis
- Fiery Serpents among the People
- This Week in PLoS Medicine: Correcting mortality estimates in ART; Standardized screening rule for TB; Impact of eHealth
- Monitoring International Diplomacy and Global Health
- Withdrawal of journal access is a wake-up call for researchers in the developing world
- What next for HINARI in an open-access world?
- This Week in PLoS Medicine: H1N1 vaccine effectiveness; Reducing deaths from birth asphyxia
- Sharing research data: funders of health research come together
- Where are water and sanitation in China’s rural healthcare reform?
- This Week in PLoS Medicine: Predicting outcomes of IVF; Neonatal health at the community level
December 2010
- This Week in PLoS Medicine: TB in prisons; WHO & HIV; HIV Biomarkers; Guidelines in health systems
- Candy-charity partnerships are "sugar washing"
- This Week in PLoS Medicine: Drug resistance in Ethiopia; Preterm births in Mexico; Nuclear receptors in lung cancer
- Can We Count on Global Health Estimates?
- This Week in PLoS Medicine: Secondhand smoke; Medicaid smoking cessation; Mobile apps for health monitoring
- Cold hands: remember Raynaud’s disease
- New European policy - greater transparency and access to data from drug regulator
- MSF: World AIDS Day - Flying in the face of evidence
November 2010
- This Week in PLoS Medicine: Debate on the Future of Global Health Estimates; Retinal Microvasculature and Air Pollution
- The Emerging—and Diverging—Countries of Africa
- This Week in PLoS Medicine: Costs & funding for public health; Path to universal health coverage
- MSF: Cholera epidemics: emergency response in Haiti and beyond
- Chocolate, water pipes and PLoS Medicine - report from the Cambridge Humanitarian Centre
- MDG 7c: The Sanitation Goal Is in the Toilet
- This Week in PLoS Medicine: Water and Sanitation; Improving definitions; Road crashes and trauma
- Walk-in TB testing and self-testing for HIV
- Can the Republicans Repeal Health Reform?
- Hygiene, Sanitation, and Water (HSW): Neglected Problems, Lagging Solutions
- This Week in PLoS Medicine: Engaging trial participants; Water and sanitation
- Biogas toilets in a Chinese village
- This Week in PLoS Medicine: Flu treatment combo; eHealth evaluation; Pharmaceutical promotion perspective
- Publication Duty for big Pharma?
October 2010
- This Week in PLoS Medicine: Transparency in medical publishing; Toxicity in pesticides; Conflicts of interest & more
- Global Congress on Verbal Autopsy in 2011 open for abstract submission
- This Week in PLoS Medicine: Pharmaceutical promotion's effects; Intracerebral haemorrhage treatment
- WHO invites countries to have foodborne disease burden assessed
- Ethics of new developments in personalised healthcare
- This Week in PLoS Medicine: Gastroenteritis economics; Prenatal treatment of toxoplasmosis; Genomic medicine & public health
- World Food Day - is weaning food an essential medicine?
- This Week in PLoS Medicine: Burden of pneumococcal disease; Field guide for human research ethics; Reflections on H1N1 response
- Global funds needed to prevent mother-to-child transmission of HIV
- China’s water and sanitation crisis
September 2010
- New treatments for Visceral Leishmaniasis
- Curing policy at Policy Cures
- Women and malaria research in the 21st century
- This Week in PLoS Medicine: Integrated management of malaria; CRP & chronic inflammation
- The MDGs should be replaced with something better
- New submission and peer review system for PLoS Medicine
- This Week in PLoS Medicine: Shanghai lifestyle & health; Who's writing medical journalism; Urban advantage & maternal health
- Maternal mortality, human rights, and accountability
- Ghostwriting Overpromoted HRT
- Healthier Water, Healthier People
- Announcing World Water Week, 5-11 September 2010, Stockholm.
- What should health journalists (and bloggers) be expected to know?
- When people live with multiple chronic diseases: a wiki-book review
August 2010
- This Week in PLoS Medicine: MSMs risk behavior; IT & heart health; Social inequalities in cardiovascular care
- Does post-publication peer review work?
- Visceral leishmaniasis outbreak in Sudan
- False economy: how the tobacco industry is distorting Africa’s economy
- This Week in PLoS Medicine: Verbal autopsy assessment; Bed-netting malaria prevention; Hidden costs of misconduct
- The worsening situation in Pakistan
- Poor children at risk on the roads
- Personalised genetic testing: when will oversight catch up with technology?
- MSF-UK’s annual Scientific Day 2010
- Russian fires could result in a global disaster—another food crisis
- This Week in PLoS Medicine: Mathematical model on malaria; Integrase inhibitors and HIV; Touch-screen eHealth
- Mumbai’s malaria outbreak
- DFID launches public consultation to inform UK malaria business plan
- Pakistan floods: medical coordination is essential
- This Week in PLoS Medicine: The Burma MOM Project; Strategy and Ecology in the Elimination of Malaria
- The UN Declares Access to Water and Sanitation a Human Right
- Randomised trials are not just for medicines
July 2010
- This Week in PLoS Medicine: Social relationships and mortality; ECG repolarization patterns; Editorial on maternal and child HIV treatment & more
- Global health research survey: Who is healthier?
- MSF: Beyond Vienna: possible game-changers for scaling up optimal AIDS treatment
- This Week in PLoS Medicine: Adult male circumcision in South Africa; HIV testing for children; Prevention of mother-to-child HIV transmission
- UNAIDS' Outlook
- This week in PLoS Medicine: Six-gene predictor in pancreatic cancer treatment; Reviews for devices; Evidence-based policy in Africa
- Reducing bias in systematic reviews - a bid for registration
- The importance of emergency health care
- UK government and food industry in bizarre alliance
- Tracking how medical and science news stories develop
- This week in PLoS Medicine: Mapping Malaria in Kenya; Malaria Parasites and Paediatric fever estimates; Funding for maternal and child health and more
- Scientific diplomacy: new idea but the same old political agenda
- Complicity or Abolition? The catastrophic consequences of good intentions
June 2010
- Why animal research needs reporting guidelines: improving ethics and translation
- This week in PLoS Medicine: Pay-for-Performance: Location, Location, Location; Novel approaches to R & D; Maternal health policy in Africa
- This week in PLoS Medicine: Incidence and reproduction numbers of pertussis; The prevalence and drug-sensitivity of TB in patients in South African hospitals
- Medical schools begin to reject industry funding for continuing medical education
- Global burden of Echinococcosis just published
- Time to Deliver: Series on Maternal, Newborn and Child Health in sub-Saharan Africa
- Ghostwriting and its wider ramifications
- This week in PLoS Medicine: Mapping the malaria burden; thrombophilia and pregnancy complications
- When research is torture
- A new paradigm for global health?
- This week in PLoS Medicine: "Good Things for Young People"; Getting STRICTA about guidelines for acupuncture trials; and more
- This Week in PLoS Medicine: C-reactive protein in coronary artery disease; Secondary prevention of suicide; challenges for the pandemic
May 2010
- This week in PLoS Medicine: Adult obesity; Assessing child development; Breast cancer; and more!
- Mother-to-child HIV transmission - stigma barrier to progress
- Making drug and device regulation more transparent -- FDA invites public comment on proposals
- This week in PLoS Medicine: NTDs; H1N1 in Vietnam; Suicide risk for seniors
- Open access in Poland
- MSF: Access to medicines must be preserved and improved at the World Health Assembly
- This week in PLoS Medicine: Long term studies of chronic disease; Foreign policy and global health
- After US Health Reform—What Comes Next?
- Ask PLoS Medicine: Can I republish a figure from another journal in PLoS Medicine?
- The Toronto Charter on Physical Activity: A Global Call for Action
- Big Food learns from Big Tobacco
- This week in PLoS Medicine: SARS, HPV, and Influenza
April 2010
- This week in PLoS Medicine: Comparative effectiveness research; and more!
- 3 cents a day is not enough to halt drug-related HIV-epidemic
- Open Access to Development Data: The World Bank’s New Open Data Initiative
- MSF: Is Malaria all sewn up?
- A different type of malaria map
- PLoS Medicine Series on Global Health Diplomacy
- This week in PLoS Medicine: Does foreign policy help or hinder global health?; and more!
- Talking harm reduction with Gerry Stimson, executive director of the IHRA
- What can science do about malaria?
- Ask PLoS Medicine: I don’t have the funds to pay the publication fee. How can I receive a waiver or a discount?
- New systematic review identifies gap in treatment for epilepsy in LAMIC
- This week in PLoS Medicine: Improving data collection and estimation methods for mortality
- From evidence to practice - E2Pi has launched
- This week in PLoS Medicine: Decreasing newborn death; H1N1; and more!
March 2010
- This week in PLoS Medicine: Preventing road deaths; Bias in animal trial reports
- Can Animal Models of Disease Reliably Inform Human Studies?
- Quality of trial reporting: not great, but getting better slowly
- Pandemic influenza - where do we go from here?
- This week in PLoS Medicine: Preventable risk factors; CONSORT 2010; and more!
- MSF: The problem of multidrug resistant TB (MDR-TB)
- Today is World Water Day
- Introducing the PLoS Medicine iPhone application
- Progress report on water and sanitation MDG released
- Life after PLoS: From Journal Editor to Academia
- This week in PLoS Medicine: Adopting Hib vaccination; COPD for non-smokers
- Peer review at PLoS Medicine
- This week in PLoS Medicine: Surgical provision in African hospitals; and more
- Economic recessions: Good news for health?
- Making anti-malarials from yeast: Jay Keasling and synthetic biology
- This week in PLoS Medicine: HIV and noncommunicable diseases hinder the progress of poor countries’ MDGs; New treatments for stroke will benefit from genetic research
February 2010
- New Seroquel Documents available on the Drug Industry Document Archive (DIDA)
- The numbers are the numbers: Avandia, heart attacks, and leaked messages
- This week in PLoS Medicine: Economic burden of diabetes complications; Role of T cell count in HIV treatment; Tool to identify hospital infection clusters; and more!
- Measuring the right outcomes in clinical trials
- MSF: More action needed to treat the deadliest neglected tropical diseases
- Time for registration of observational research?
- Progress tempered by reality of HIV control at 17th CROI
- Is a megaphone drowning out the most effective way to quit smoking?
- This week in PLoS Medicine: HIV resistance in women treated with nevirapine; Charging less for more effective treatments; Developing guidelines for better reporting
- Guest authors are frequent in junior doctors' dissertations
- This week in PLoS Medicine: Antiretroviral therapy and increases in pregnancy; Unassisted smoking cessation; Maps of the vectors of human malaria
- Ensuring Ethical Animal Research: How do PLoS journals measure up?
- MSF in Haiti: Managing the risk of communicable disease outbreaks
- This week in PLoS Medicine: HIV-associated morbidity in adolescents; Policy prohibiting ghostwriting; Measuring hsCRP - Important or clinically redundant?
- What does it mean to deidentify data?
- How neglected are neglected diseases?
- My 12 Minutes Speaking in the House of Commons
January 2010
- This week in PLoS Medicine: Call for better global health data; Pregnancies at risk of malaria in 2007; Lessons for a stronger institutional framework; and more!
- Water and Sanitation in Humanitarian Emergencies
- Improving nutrition highlighted by SciDevNet article collection
- MSF in Haiti: Treating and managing infected wounds
- NIH responds to PharmedOut open letter calling for more research on ethics
- MSF: Humanitarian action and scientific research
- This week in PLoS Medicine: Cost effective strategy for HIV prevention; Analysis of immune responses to Plasmodium falciparum; Malaria—Linking knowledge with action
- MSF in Haiti: Rapidly responding to the emergency medical needs of Haiti’s earthquake victims
- This week in PLoS Medicine: BAT influences EU policies; Spread of MRSA mapped across Europe; Role of national health systems in global health discussed
- Water and Sanitation: Not Glamorous, but Critical
- The changing nature of global health institutions
- Can society handle the "mind-boggling" amount of genetic data now available?
December 2009
- Cheaper malaria drugs but more stockouts in Africa?
- This week in PLoS Medicine: Rape with extreme violence; Increasing access to surgery in Sub-Saharan Africa; Why is TB more common in men than in women?; and more!
- Can the world afford to be run by countries? Final thoughts from COP-15
- Snowstorms in Copenhagen
- This week in PLoS Medicine: Sand playground surfaces reduce risk of arm fractures; Influenza in Africa should not be ignored; Cardiovascular and suicide risk raised after prostate cancer diagnosis; The global spread of Hepatitis C Virus 1a and 1b; Addressing emerging zoonoses
- Climate and health – reporting from Copenhagen
- COP15, 2 days in: a health researchers perspective
- Planned Ohio execution violates Declaration of Helsinki
- Medics March for Climate Change Action
- On the way to Copenhagen for the UN Climate Conference
- Global Pulse Interviews Ellen ‘t Hoen About Patent Pool
- Climate change supplement from open access journal Global Health Action
- New guidelines on retractions are now available from COPE – the Committee on Publication Ethics
- Getting ahead of the curve for the most neglected diseases: top issues at ASTMH
- The GPP2 guidelines: revised version of Good publication practice for communicating company sponsored medical research
- This week in PLoS Medicine: the direct costs of antiretroviral treatment; antibiotics not effective in preventing preterm birth; global health delivery 2.0
November 2009
- Daily Click: Coming to terms with traumatic death: stories from healthtalkonline
- Daily Click: Sense about Systematic Reviews
- Further developments relating to Prempro and Wyeth documents
- International Health Electives: "A Delicate Balance"
- This week in PLoS Medicine: Why circumcision reduces HIV risk; the unequal world of health data; malaria activism; evaluating eHealth; and more!
- This week in PLoS Medicine: El Niño and dengue fever; clinical trial regulations; using systematic reviews in policymaking
- The role of medical students in limiting the spread of antimicrobial resistance
- A billion living in hunger: governments must rise to the challenge
- HIV and homosexuality - Uganda’s Turn Toward Hate
- Diving into the patent pool
- StaRs of child health
- Counting the global burden of foodborne disease
October 2009
- Drug Companies and Patient Groups: Uneasy Bedfellows
- New tools to improve access to healthcare services for Africa’s worst-off
- Last call for abstracts for the Geneva Health Forum 2010
- Telegraph feature on scaling up mosquito nets
- PLoS Medicine is 5 this week
- Mental health in Kenya
- Protecting hospitals from natural disasters
- Meeting the challenge of health information access with open online collaboration
- Action on global mental health
- Series on mental health in low and middle income countries
- PLoS Medicine 5th birthday paper competition - last week of voting!
- Buying a Coke in Africa: are there lessons for malaria?
September 2009
- Uniting Tanzanian Medical Students to Reverse the Brain Drain
- Data sharing after publication
- Wyeth Ghostwriting Documents Added to Drug Industry Document Archive
- Health Check on HIV and male circumcision
- Article-level metrics at PLoS – addition of usage data
- Public health and social justice
- Can we really fix US health care?
- PLoS Medicine's 5th anniversary competition
- Serving a “cup of science” in Kenya
- Daily Click: A new resource for evidence-based TB diagnosis
- Another Ghostly Apparition
- Daily Click: WHO takes a stance on homeopathy
- Daily Click: Henry Wellcome's House of Wax
August 2009
- China-UK Research Ethics Report
- Mining the ghostwriting documents results in university investigation
- Speaking of Medicine: The New Home for Student Perspectives at PLoS Medicine
- The dawning era of personalized medicine exposes a gap in medical education
- Ghostwriting documents now fully available on PLoS Medicine website
- HPV - the debate continues
- Daily Click: Water bottles have stigma
- The stone in the bottle
- Daily Click: Shine the light on rape in war
- How many toilets?
- Ghostwriting 101
- What should be done to tackle ghostwriting in medical literature?
- PLoS Medicine and the New York Times victorious in court; Public will have access to ghostwriting documents
July 2009
- Ask PLoS Medicine: What can medical journals do to address language barriers?
- "Why Open Access Matters to Public Health in Africa" - A talk in Nairobi
- Videos on PLoS Medicine, Open Access and global burden of disease
- The kissing bug
- Far from the reach of global health programs
- Successful intervention by PLoS Medicine and New York Times in Federal court grants public access to evidence that drug company ‘ghostwrote’ medical articles about hormone therapy drug, Prempro
- A new initiative for neglected tropical diseases
- Ask PLoS Medicine: No need to request permisson - just be creative!
- PLoS Journals – measuring impact where it matters
- Supporting systematic reviews
- Daily Click: Chagas disease articles published in PLoS Neglected Tropical Disease
- New Universal Trial Number (UTN) from the WHO
- Daily Click: Investigating (dis)honesty
- June in PLoS Medicine: Conflict and Reproductive Health; Antibiotics are not Automatic; Water in Wired; and much more
- Psychiatric bible bashing
- EU drugs industry antitrust report out...
- 100 years of Chagas disease
- Investigating ghostwriting
- Daily Click: Medicine in the Era of Globalization
- Reporting from East Africa and Sudan
June 2009
- Daily Click: Water Should be a Human Right
- Daily Click: Inexplicable acts at the Wellcome collection
- Daily Click: Eleven Essential Resources on Global Health
- Using social media networks in research
- May Issue summary: Sexual health policy; reducing premature birth risk; tobacco control; and more
- Comparative Effectiveness Research - what are the ingredients for success?
- Daily Click: The Social Life of Health Information
- Daily Click: GSK response on the “Right to Health”
- Second Coming of the Sanitarians? Podcasts with two PLoS Medicine Editorial Board Members
- Daily Click: Medical Bills Underlie 60% of U.S. Bankruptcies
- Daily Click: SciDevNet on learned societies and the developing world
- PLoS Medicine's Daily Click
- The story behind PLoS Medicine’s revised scope.