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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
Note: This Editorial is appearing in Speaking of Medicine ahead of print. The final version will appear in PLOS Medicine at the end of December. PLOS Medicine Machine Learning Special Issue Guest Editors Suchi Saria,
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
Heather Wipfli, from the University of Southern California, highlights the lack of consensus regarding the role of private industry in efforts to control the burden of non-communicable diseases. Non-communicable diseases (NCDs) were extensively discussed at
This week PLOS Medicine publishes the following new articles: Physical inactivity is the fourth leading global risk factor for death, and also a major cause of non-communicable diseases (chronic diseases such as heart disease and
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
Síle Lane from Sense About Science discusses the recent European Court injunction on clinical trial data. The European General Court has issued an injunction to prevent the European medicines regulator from releasing information from clinical
In a Policy Forum article published in this week’s PLOS Medicine Jim McCambridge and colleagues analyze submissions made by Alcohol Industry actors to the Scottish Government’s 2008 consultation on ‘Changing Scotland’s relationship with alcohol.’ The
A new initiative to bring to the forefront the issue of trial registration has just been launched, led by Ben Goldacre (who runs the Bad Science website and who is the author of Bad Science