I'm enormously excited to hear that the People's Open Access Education Initiative is taking off. PLoS will do all it can to…
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post Power to the People
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post Health as a human right: what role do health professionals play?
Interested in the intersection between health and human rights? A new book on this topic has been published online, and the scope…
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post Guest Blog by Abdo S Yazbeck, World Bank: Shining the Spotlight on Inequality in the Health Sector
PLoS Medicine invited Abdo S Yazbeck, Lead Health Economist and Program Leader of the Health and AIDS Program at the World Bank…
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PLOS Neglected Tropical Diseases PLoS NTDs at the American Society of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene Annual Meeting
Tropical disease researchers are gathering this week in Philadelphia for the ASTMH annual meeting, which has given PLoS the opportunity to show…
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post 235 Journals Publish Theme Issues on Poverty
The final count is now in—235 journals from 34 developed and developing world countries participated in the Council of Science Editors (CSE)…
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post Ghosts, drugs, and blogs
In a recent essay in PLoS Medicine, Sergio Sismondo of Queen's University, Ontario, Canada, set out to answer the question: how much…
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Open Access Using trade law to break publishing monopolies
Last Tuesday, I gave a talk at Stanford University to students and faculty about neglected tropical diseases, and I discussed the enormous…
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post Nominate classic trials in child health
The Cochrane Child Health Field, whose tag line is "promoting best evidence in child health," has announced that a trials register will…
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post PLoS NTDs in the BMJ
The BMJ has just published an editorial that I wrote with Peter Hotez, Editor in Chief of PLoS Neglected Tropical Diseases. The…
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post Access to university research and innovations
I've long believed that there are parallels between the global campaign for open access to the biomedical literature and the campaign for…
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post Libya Releases Bulgarian Medics: Guest Blog by Laurie Garrett
On 25th October 2006, we published an essay by Laurie Garrett calling for worldwide action to prevent the execution in Libya of…
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post Guest Blog: Oliver Morgan, Francesco Checchi, & Kristof Bostoen, London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine
In February 2006, the first international meeting to discuss survey methods in complex settings was held in London. Following that meeting, the…