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By Dr. Jenniffer Mabuka In 2014, West Africa encountered its worst recorded outbreak of Ebola with over 11,000 reported deaths. The memory of this crisis hadn’t faded yet when Ebola reared its ugly head again
0000-0002-8715-2896What do you tell people when you’re an invited “expert,” yet in some ways you’re the dumbest person in the room? That was my thought in February 2014, when Mexican leaders invited me to speak
0000-0002-8715-2896By Joshua P. Cohen Research Associate Professor, Tufts Center for the Study of Drug Development (Full bio below this post) Media scrutiny of high drug costs In the U.S. spending on drugs represents 10% of
0000-0002-8715-2896[Congratulations to Steve Silberman, just awarded the 2015 Samuel Johnson Prize, UK’s top nonfiction award for NeuroTribes. This interview with Silberman by Emily Willingham was originally posted on August 25, 2015 in ‘Your Say’.] To mark
0000-0002-8715-2896Welcome to part five in a PLOS BLOGS six-part series, Talking about Drug Prices & Access to Medicines. To borrow a phrase from one of our bloggers, “Rage and public outcries are not a rational way to manage high
0000-0002-8715-2896An OA Week guest post by Daniel Mietchen The initial purpose of Open Access is to enable researchers to make use of information already known to science as part of the published literature. One way
0000-0002-8715-2896A guest post for OA Week by Barbara Fister Every spring, when I teach a course for upper-division undergraduates interested in knowing more about how information works before they go on to grad school, we
0000-0002-8715-2896This is a guest post from Timothy Vollmer, Manager of Policy and Data for Creative Commons Congratulations to PLOS, SPARC, and OASPA for taking a productive, positive approach to explaining various aspects of Open Access
This week saw publication of a PLOS One paper on a potential environmental cause of autism that caught the attention of the media. The Daily Mail, a newspaper that has a track record of sensationalist
Whether from hubris or insecurity, humans like to view our species as the crown of creation, beings beyond compare in the animal kingdom, as if our advanced cognitive and behavioral skills appeared de novo with