Diverse perspectives on science and medicine
Ruby Singhrao reports from last month’s TEDx San Franicsco conference, dedicated to advances in global health. On November 10th 2012, the University of California San Francisco (UCSF) hosted a TEDx conference on global health. The
New method quantifies uncertainty in estimates of child mortality rates Measures of uncertainty should be taken into account when estimating progress towards Millennium Development Goal 4 (to reduce the mortality rate of children under 5
Faraz Ahmed reports from last month’s Public Health Science conference dedicated to new research in public health at the Royal Society of Medicine in London, United Kingdom. As a public health researcher, I am often
Carl Heneghan, Director of the University of Oxford’s Centre of Evidence-Based Medicine, discusses recent developments in access to clinical-trial data. The Pharmaceutical industry and drug regulators treat clinical data, submitted at the time of regulation,
Sara Gorman from Harvard University takes a look at the history of infectious disease stigma. Although tremendous strides in fighting stigma and discrimination against people with HIV/AIDS have been made since the beginning of the
What would it be like if you had no toilet and no running water in your home? Not only for a brief time for a power outage, say, or while you’re remodeling your bathroom, but
Anne Radl from The Humanitarian Centre discusses ‘Partnerships for global health: pathways to progress’ a new report reflecting on the centre’s focus on global health over the last year. “Everyone has something to teach and
Guest blogger Jonathan Smith from Yale University School of Public Health discusses the challenges of tackling South Africa’s “TB factories.” TB in the South African mining industry has recently seen unprecedented political will and international
This blog was commisioned from Yoni Freedhoff to coincide with the final week of the PLoS Medicine series on Big Food – eight articles published over 3 weeks that examine the activities and influence of
This week PLoS Medicine features two new Research Articles and the start of our new series on Big Food. To learn more about this month’s Editorial announcing our Big Food Series, read the blog post