Monthly Archives: August 2012

No More Guesstimation: How to Reliably Estimate Trends in Child Mortality

By Cecy Marden
Posted: August 28, 2012
Category: Authors, Collections, General, Maternal Newborn and Child Health, Policy | Tagged , , , , , | Leave a comment

This Week in PLOS Medicine: Urban air quality; MDR-TB outcomes; Extractive industries

By Michael Morris
Posted: August 28, 2012
Category: PLoS Medicine Week by Week | Tagged , , | Leave a comment

A new era dawns for death registration

By PLOS Guest Blogger
Posted: August 22, 2012
Category: General | 1 Comment

This Week in PLOS Medicine: Plasmodium falciparum; HIV stigma & maternal health; blood pressure & more

By Michael Morris
Posted: August 21, 2012
Category: PLoS Medicine Week by Week | Tagged , , , , , , , , , , , , | Leave a comment

Emergency epidemiology-what does this mean?

By Médecins Sans Frontières
Posted: August 21, 2012
Category: MSF | Tagged , , , | Leave a comment

The roots of inaction: Understanding and overcoming the obstacles to greater investment in scaling-up effective diarrhea treatment

By PLOS Guest Blogger
Posted: August 20, 2012
Category: General | 1 Comment

Treating a deadly nuisance: On the trail of the simple yet elusive solution to the world’s second largest child-killer

By PLOS Guest Blogger
Posted: August 15, 2012
Category: General | Tagged , | 3 Comments

This Week in PLOS Medicine: 1st line ARTs; Preterm birth in Africa; Urban health equity indicators & more

By Michael Morris
Posted: August 14, 2012
Category: PLoS Medicine Week by Week | Tagged , , , , | Leave a comment

Is it time to start evaluating social policy using randomised trials?

By PLOS Guest Blogger
Posted: August 13, 2012
Category: General, Policy | Tagged , , | 1 Comment

Explaining Risk: Know Your Aristotle

By Trisha Greenhalgh
Posted: August 8, 2012
Category: General | Tagged , , | 5 Comments