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How a Free Trade Agreement Threatens Your Health and the Health of the People You Care About
Category: General
Tagged antiretroviral treatment, developing world, global health, health costs, health systems, pharmaceutical industry, Policy
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This Week in PLOS Medicine: Translational Research Standards, New Cancer Risk Model, Drug Costs & BP Outcomes, & TB
Category: PLoS Medicine Week by Week
Tagged animal experiments, ARRIVE, breast cancer, drug-resistant tuberculosis, endometrial cancer, health costs, health insurance, health systems, high blood pressure, mathematical modelling, North Korea, ovarian cancer, risk factors, TB, translational research, tuberculosis
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From What We Know to What We Do: Now is the Time for Governments to Fix a Failing System for Drug Development
Category: Neglected Diseases
Tagged developing world, global health, health policy, health systems, medical students, neglected tropical diseases, pharmaceutical industry, Policy
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Turning the World Upside Down
Category: Students
Tagged developing world, global health, health policy, health systems, medical students, Policy, public health
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Xpert MTB/RIF for those with HIV; the importance of considering equity
Category: General
Tagged Africa, antimicrobial drugs, antiretroviral treatment, developing world, health costs, health systems, HIV, HIV/AIDS, Policy, research ethics, tuberculosis
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Book Review: A Maternal and Perinatal Health ‘How-to Manual’ with a Difference
Category: Book Review
Tagged book review, developing world, global health, health systems, maternal and perinatal health, maternal health
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Strengthening Rwandan Surgery: Surgical Residents’ Perspective
Category: Conference news, General, Global Health Systems
Tagged Africa, critical care, health systems, Rwanda, surgery
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This Week in PLoS Medicine: Cancer & contraceptives in South Africa; Neonatal care in LMICs; Pregnancy in smoke-free Scotland & more
Category: PLoS Medicine Week by Week
Tagged breast cancer, cervical cancer, contraceptives, health systems, Health Systems Guidance, ovarian cancer, premature birth, preterm birth, smoke-free legislation, South Africa, tobacco policy
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This Week in PLoS Medicine: Ghostwriting; Dengue & population density; Neonatal mortality & more!
Category: PLoS Medicine Week by Week
Tagged dengue, Ghostwriting, health systems, mobile technology, natural disasters, neonatal health, neonatal mortality, population density
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The importance of emergency health care
Category: General
Tagged emergency admissions, global burden of disease, health systems, NHS, preventable deaths
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