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A Collaboration of Friends: Getting to Know Cochrane
Category: Conference news, General
Tagged Africa, global health, health information, medical literature, systematic reviews
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This Week in PLOS Medicine: PRISMA-E; Foreign aid for maternal & child health; Experiencing dementia diagnosis
Category: PLoS Medicine Week by Week
Tagged caregivers, dementia, foreign aid, health equity, health research, maternal and child health, Mental Health, neonatal mortality, PRISMA, PRISMA-E, reporting, systematic reviews
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This Week in PLOS Medicine: Pharma research; ART & TB; Gestational diabetes & more
Category: PLoS Medicine Week by Week
Tagged antiretroviral treatment, gestational diabetes, HIV, pediatric HIV, pharmaceutical industry, systematic reviews, tuberculosis
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Should Deworming Policies in the Developing World be Reconsidered?
Category: General, Neglected Diseases, Policy
Tagged Africa, developing world, global health, neglected tropical diseases, Policy, systematic reviews
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This Week in PLoS Medicine: Clinical prediction research; Improving drug formularies
Category: PLoS Medicine Week by Week
Tagged checklist, clinical trials, drug policy, pharmaceutical industry, systematic reviews
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This Week in PLoS Medicine: Private health foundations; Private vs public ambulatory care; Mosquito net use
Category: PLoS Medicine Week by Week
Tagged ambulatory care, global health, insecticides, malaria, mosquito nets, systematic reviews
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This Week in PLoS Medicine: Engaging trial participants; Water and sanitation
Category: General, PLoS Medicine Week by Week
Tagged hygeine, sanitation, systematic reviews, trial participants, water
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This Week in PLoS Medicine: Pharmaceutical promotion’s effects; Intracerebral haemorrhage treatment
Category: PLoS Medicine Week by Week
Tagged intracerebral hemorrhage, pharmaceutical industry, pharmaceutical promotion, prescription drugs, systematic reviews
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