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Senior Editor Amy Ross discusses the content published in week 1 of the PLOS Medicine Special Issue on CVD and Multimorbidity. This week, publication of a Special Issue on Cardiovascular Disease (CVD) and Multimorbidity begins
Margaret Kruk, Hannah Leslie, and Muhammad Ali Pate introduce the PLOS Collection on High-Quality Health Systems in the Sustainable Development Goal Era. In September 2015, the United Nations General Assembly adopted the 17 Sustainable Development
PLOS Medicine announces the Malaria Eradication Research Agenda Refresh collection. In 2016, an estimated 216 million cases of malaria and 445 000 deaths occurred in the 91 countries with ongoing malaria transmission, mostly affecting children in
PLOS Medicine Associate Editor Colleen Crangle introduces the PLOS Collection on Human Trafficking, Exploitation and Health. The exploitation of people for forced labor or forced marriage now affects over 40 million worldwide. Every nation is implicated
Update: the submission deadline for the Special Issue on Climate change and health has been extended to February 9th. The editors of PLOS Medicine announce a forthcoming special issue devoted to the health impacts of climate change.
PLOS Neglected Tropical Diseases announces a collection on vector-borne diseases. Research submissions are now being invited, with a **DEADLINE EXTENSION** to March 31, 2018. As previously noted in PLOS Neglected Tropical Diseases (NTDs), while the
Guest editors Nicola Low of the University of Bern, Switzerland and Nathalie Broutet of the World Health Organization, along with PLOS Medicine Senior Editor Richard Turner, discuss the rationale for a call for papers on sexually
In honor of World Malaria Day, Kasturi Haldar, Editor-in-Chief of PLOS Pathogens comments on the challenge of resistance to frontline drugs in malaria treatment, control, and elimination on the path to eradication. From 2010-2015 new
In preparation for the March For Science (to be held in Washington, DC and other locations across the country on April 22), PLOS Pathogens Research Matters Editor Glenn Rall revisits the initial goal of the Research Matters series: an
Publications Manager Charlotte Bhaskar celebrates PLOS Neglected Tropical Diseases 10 year anniversary and looks forward to upcoming events and initiatives for the journal. On behalf of all of us at PLOS Neglected Tropical Diseases (PLOS