Diverse perspectives on science and medicine
By Pranay Sinha “A model for us to look to as we’re thinking about other ways to project America’s values, project our compassion…” was how Secretary of State Rex Tillerson described the President’s Emergency Plan
Dr. Robert Hecht and Rachel Wilkinson of Pharos Global Health Advisers comment on the role of the Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis, and Malaria in building sustainable funding structures for health system strengthening in
0000-0002-8715-2896[Originally published as a PLOS BLOGS Network guest post on December 10, 2013] By Dr. Nosakhare Orobaton To mark Year Three of the Maternal Health Task Force (MHTF) Collection, PLOS BLOGS Network is re-publishing an extraordinary pair
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 the sixth and final post in a PLOS BLOGS 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
A guest post by student scientist Jack Andraka After a close family friend died from pancreatic cancer, I turned to the Internet to help me understand more about this disease that had killed him so
0000-0002-8715-2896An OA Week guest post by patient advocate Christy Collins My daughter, Signe, was born with a very rare genetic condition called macrocephaly-capillary malformation syndrome or M-CM. This syndrome features a variety of congenital abnormalities
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