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This Week in PLOS Medicine: Global Access to Health Information, Integrating Mental Health, Upper GI Bleeds, & Cinacalcet

By PLOS Medicine
Posted: April 30, 2013

Category: General | Tagged chronic kidney disease, global health, health information, Integrating Mental Health Series, kidney disease, Mental Health, mortality, upper GI bleed | Leave a comment

This Week in PLOS Medicine: Clinical trial reporting; ED and cardio disease; NCDs in LMICs

By Michael Morris
Posted: January 29, 2013

Category: PLoS Medicine Week by Week | Tagged cardiovascular health, clinical trials, erectile dysfunction, evidence-based medicine, guidelines, LMICs, mortality, noncommunicable diseases, reporting | Leave a comment

Emergency epidemiology-what does this mean?

By Médecins Sans Frontières
Posted: August 21, 2012

Category: MSF | Tagged Africa, diarrhea, mortality, MSF | Leave a comment

Maternal Mortality Falling – But Still Too High

By PLOS Guest Blogger
Posted: May 16, 2012

Category: General | Tagged maternal health, mortality | 2 Comments

This Week in PLoS Medicine: Co-proxamol deaths; Aid & govt spending; HIV & TB in prisons

By Michael Morris
Posted: May 9, 2012

Category: PLoS Medicine Week by Week | Tagged aid displacement, co-proxamol, developing world, economic policy, foreign aid, health aid, health policy, HIV, mortality, prison, prison health, public policy, Suicide, tuberculosis | Leave a comment

This Week in PLoS Medicine: End-of-life care; Clean Delivery Kits; Mortality in seniors & more

By Michael Morris
Posted: February 28, 2012

Category: PLoS Medicine Week by Week | Tagged chronic disease, Clean Delivery Kits, end-of-life care, global burden of disease, global health, Mental Health, mortality, neonatal health, neonatal mortality, noncommunicable diseases, palliative care, Seniors | Leave a comment

This Week in PLoS Medicine: Sanitation & infection; adult mortality in Japan; Ghostwriting in the courts

By Michael Morris
Posted: January 24, 2012

Category: PLoS Medicine Week by Week | Tagged Ghostwriting, high blood pressure, mortality, noncommunicable diseases, Policy, research ethics, sanitation, smoking, tobacco, Water and Sanitation | Leave a comment

Media Release: Tobacco smoking and high blood pressure are biggest killers of Japanese adults

By PLOS Medicine
Posted: January 24, 2012

Category: Media Releases | Tagged high blood pressure, injury, life expectancy, lifestyle, mortality, noncommunicable diseases, smoking, tobacco | Leave a comment

This Week in PLoS Medicine: WHO’s PMTCT; WTO compulsory licenses; & more

By Michael Morris
Posted: January 10, 2012

Category: General, PLoS Medicine Week by Week | Tagged compulsory licensing, HIV, mortality, narcotics, pain relief, pharmaceutical industry, PMTCT, pulmonary embolism, venous thrombosis, World Health Organization, World Trade Organization, Zimbabwe | 1 Comment

This week in PLoS Medicine: Does foreign policy help or hinder global health?; and more!

By Darcy Gill
Posted: April 20, 2010

Category: General | Tagged Brazil, Cancer, children, diabetes, Global Health Diplomacy, India, maternal health, mortality, neoadjuvant therapy, tobacco control, type 2 diabetes | Leave a comment

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