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To help celebrate 15 years of PLOS Medicine, Academic Editor Madhukar Pai discusses the advancement of cascades of care in tuberculosis, focusing on a number of contributions in PLOS Medicine since 2016. Good health is
Academic Editor Margaret Kruk celebrates 15 years of PLOS Medicine by discussing an article that described reductions in mortality rates following the expansion of family health services in Brazil. Ever since Julian Tudor Hart pointed
Representatives from Karolinska Institutet, the Knowledge to Policy Center and the McMaster Health Forum discuss the importance of citizen engagement in policy-making processes. Citizen engagement is important to make health and social policies more inclusive
Sanjay Basu, Assistant Professor of Medicine at the Stanford University Prevention Research Center, answers questions from PLOS Social Media Associate Sara Kassabian. [Post updated on April 7, 2016] The burden of non-communicable diseases (NCDs) is growing globally, with
Reshma Ramachandran and David Carroll warn that the Trans-Pacific Partnership will trample over access to affordable medicines Last month, Wikileaks posted the complete Intellectual Property (IP) Chapter of the secretly-negotiated Trans-Pacific Partnership Agreement (TPP) confirming
This week PLOS Medicine publishes the following new articles: The promise of translational medicine attracts increased funding, yet challenges in translating animal research to humans include the poor methodological quality of some animal experiments, insufficient
This week PLOS Medicine publishes the following new articles: The promise of translational medicine attracts increased funding, yet challenges in translating animal research to humans include the poor methodological quality of some animal experiments, insufficient
Kristine Husøy Onarheim and Johanne Helene Iversen from Universities Allied for Essential Medicines write about the broken system for drug development, and how governments are given an opportunity to address it. The member states of
Isobel Braithwaite shares her thoughts on the recent launch event of the Turning the World Upside Down online platform. A couple of weeks back, I attended the launch event of the new Turning the World
Anna Vassall from the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine discusses a recently published analysis of the potential health and economic consequences of implementing Xpert MTB/RIF in southern Africa. In this week’s PLoS Medicine,