We are delighted to be introducing the new Editor-in-Chief of PLOS Medicine, Prof. Dr. Till Bärnighausen! He brings with him a wealth…
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Meet the Editor Meet the new Editor-in-Chief of PLOS Medicine
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In the News medRxiv to PLOS: Direct preprint transfers
Authors with preprints on the new health sciences preprint server medRxiv now have the option to transfer their manuscripts for publication consideration…
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Advocacy Open Access Publishing Forges Ahead in Europe
A group of national funders, joined by the European Commission and the European Research Council, have announced plans to make Open Access…
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In the News Statement on Data Sharing in Public Health Emergencies
The following is a joint funder/journal statement released today on Data Sharing in Public Health Emergencies. To learn about the special PLOS Zika…
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PLoS Medicine Introducing the PLoS Medicine iPhone application
Some smart folks at the Center for Biomedical Informatics (CBMI*, a research center within the Harvard Medical School) have created a PLoS…
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PLoS Medicine The PLoS Medicine blog channel is moving
PLoS Medicine now blogs at Speaking of Medicine, and we won’t be posting here any more. We outgrew this site in terms…
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PLoS Medicine World Hepatitis Day: Prospects for the Future – Guest blog by Paul Klenerman and colleagues
“World Hepatitis Day…does not usually make the headlines in the same way that World AIDS day does, but viral hepatitis affects about…
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PLoS Medicine Focusing PLoS Medicine on the diseases and risk factors that cause the greatest losses in years of healthy life worldwide
The editorial published in this week’s PLoS Medicine looks back over the 5 years since the journal made its first call for…
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PLoS Medicine In the news: “silent” heart attacks
A couple of news sites jumped the gun on a paper on “silent” heart attacks by Han Kim and colleagues of Duke…
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PLoS Medicine Easier commenting – and now rating – on PLoS Medicine papers
It’s been a couple of weeks since PLoS Medicine moved to our open source publishing platform and apart from saboteurs cutting cables…
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PLoS Medicine News reporting of suicide in ex-military personnel
In this month’s PLoS Medicine editorial, we discuss the public health risks associated with sensationalized media reporting of suicide, including the risk…
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PLoS Medicine False claim about a PLoS Medicine editor and PLoS board member
I wanted to alert you to an e-mail that is in circulation, advertising an upcoming journal called Scientific Medicine. The e-mail states…