Quick update on the FDA’s draft policy regarding promotion of off-label drug use, which Gavin blogged about last July. Despite widespread negative…
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PLoS Medicine FDA’s “Good” Reprint Practices Now PolicyRead more
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PLoS Medicine Data access and the NHS – more research versus patient privacy?Read more
The Guardian’s front page story from a couple of days ago (“NHS medical research plan threatens patient privacy”) looks like it has…
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post UK sets out guidance on research misconductRead more
The US has its Office of Research Integrity (ORI), and many Nordic countries (for example, Denmark, Norway, and Sweden) have national bodies…
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post To IRB or not to IRB?Read more
The Committee on Publication Ethics (COPE), of which PLoS Medicine, and other PLoS journals, are members, has recently released guidance for editors…
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post Prying into protocolsRead more
Just spotted an interesting letter in last week’s Lancet discussing selective reporting of clinical trials. This may sound like something you’ve heard…
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post Your input on how clinical trials should be reported – public consultations at WHO and ClinicalTrials.gov soon to closeRead more
In the US, a new law will very soon require sponsors of clinical trials to start submitting data on the results of…
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post Children’s medicines matterRead more
Editors spend so much of every day with their heads thoroughly immersed, indeed swimming, in research papers, that it can be heartening…
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post QuackbustersRead more
Editors rarely have much to delight them on cold Friday mornings in Cambridgeshire so here at PLoS-UK HQ there was a frisson…
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post Who cares about trials registration?Read more
A paper recently appeared in Trials (an open-access journal published by BioMed Central) looking at whether investigators carrying out trials are aware…
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Open Access PLoS Hub for Clinical Trials now launched – take a spinRead more
The PLoS Hub for Clinical Trials is live today – completing the merger of PLoS Clinical Trials with PLoS ONE. Our goal…
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post June issue of PLoS Medicine: sex, incentives, and safetyRead more
Unfortunately, none of the PLoS Medicine editors could make it out to the healing fields of the annual music and mud extravaganza…
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post World Health Organization launches global trial registry portalRead more
The goal of universal registration of clinical trials has been long in gestation, but it now looks as if a healthy delivery…