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 News reporting of suicide in ex-military personnelRead more
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PLOS Neglected Tropical Diseases A reminder: PLoS will reject unregistered trialsRead more
Last week, the PLoS Neglected Tropical Diseases editors rejected a clinical trial, without even sending it for peer review, because the trial…
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PLoS Medicine False claim about a PLoS Medicine editor and PLoS board memberRead more
I wanted to alert you to an e-mail that is in circulation, advertising an upcoming journal called Scientific Medicine. The e-mail states…
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post To screen or not to screen?Read more
To screen or not to screen? One of the more “interesting” experiences of my journalistic career was co-authoring an Op-Ed for the…
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In the News Open Access to Health and Human RightsRead more
Here’s another important step forward in the open access movement. Under its new editor Paul Farmer (who is often talked about as…
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post Harms of promoting off-label uses to doctorsRead more
The FDA’s recent proposal to allow drug companies to send doctors journal articles about off-label drug use has come under major fire…
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In the News Just Saying No to Drug RepsRead more
When we launched PLoS Medicine in October 2004, the editors announced that we would “not to be part of the cycle of…
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PLOS Neglected Tropical Diseases Peter Hotez Responds to US President’s Initiative to Combat NTDsRead more
The following is a statement from Peter Hotez, Editor in Chief of PLoS Neglected Tropical Diseases, and President of the Sabin Vaccine…
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PLOS Neglected Tropical Diseases Partnering for Global Health Forum 2008, Guest Blog by Joanna LowellRead more
PLoS Neglected Tropical Diseases invited Dr Joana Lowell, Project Director at the non-profit Bio Ventures for Global Health, to write a Guest…
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post Guest Blog: Fostering Research Ethics Infrastructure in the Developing World/Transition SocietiesRead more
PLoS Medicine invited Joseph Millum of the Department of Bioethics, National Institutes of Health, USA, and Sandra Realpe of the Council on…
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post The Unlikely Tale of Hospital-Acquired Infections, Clothing and Faith: Guest Blog by Prof. Aziz SheikhRead more
England's Secretary of State for Health has announced that from January 2008, hospital staff must wear "bare below the elbows" attire. Professor…
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PLOS Neglected Tropical Diseases SciDev.Net Features PLoS NTDs StudyRead more
As Frédéric Tangy and colleagues explain in their recent study in PLoS Neglected Tropical Diseases, "The development of an affordable pediatric vaccine…