In celebration of 15 years of PLOS Medicine, Specialty Consulting Editor Lorenz von Seidlein analyzes the impact and popularity of high quality malaria research articles in the last 5 years. Since January 2014, PLOS

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In celebration of 15 years of PLOS Medicine, Specialty Consulting Editor Lorenz von Seidlein analyzes the impact and popularity of high quality malaria research articles in the last 5 years. Since January 2014, PLOS
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In their second post honoring World Malaria Day, Kasturi Haldar, Editor-in-Chief of PLOS Pathogens, and Margaret Phillips comment on the challenges for drug development and the path to malaria control, elimination and eradication. For additional
This week PLOS Medicine publishes the following new articles: Antimalarial drug resistance has hampered malaria control programs for almost 60 years. A key factor in combating this threat is to ensure that all antimalarial drugs
This week PLOS Medicine publishes the following new articles: Antimalarial drug resistance has hampered malaria control programs for almost 60 years. A key factor in combating this threat is to ensure that all antimalarial drugs
This week PLOS Medicine publishes the following new articles: Malaria in pregnancy is responsible for the deaths of about 200,000 newborn babies and 10,000 women every year and can cause miscarriage and preterm delivery, despite
This week PLOS Medicine publishes the following new articles: Compared to twice weekly iron supplements, daily iron supplements for pregnant women do not provide any benefits in birth weight or improved infant growth, according to
Dr. Lucy Chappell, Collection Editor of Measuring Coverage of Maternal, Newborn, and Child Health, explains what researchers of MNCH in High Income Country settings can learn from the Collection. In the middle of 2012, I
Estrella Lasry from Médecins Sans Frontières reflects on the roll out of seasonal malaria chemoprevention in Mali and Chad. In 2012, MSF projects in several countries saw an important increase in cases of malaria, a
Sara Gorman from Harvard University discusses the pitfalls of disease eradication efforts. There is no question that the eradication of smallpox, a devastating illness costing millions of lives, was one of the greatest achievements of