This blog post originally appeared on Speaking of Medicine March 27. Today, there are ever more pressing needs for up-to-date information to…
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Publishing Announcing PLoS Currents: DisastersRead more
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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 worldwideRead more
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 attacksRead more
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 papersRead more
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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In the News Man bites dog: researcher gets chance to counter inaccurate reporting of articleRead more
A rather amazing thing happened this week in the often somewhat sorry state of reporting of medical research: a newspaper allowed an…
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Open Access New version of the Declaration of HelsinkiRead more
Last week the World Association of Medical Editors announced the new version of the Declaration of Helsinki. This document, which was first…
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post Why accurate reporting is an ethical dutyRead more
Last week saw the EQUATOR network launch meeting at the Royal Society of Medicine and its first inaugural lecture, given by Iain…
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post MSF’s Scientific DayRead more
Last week I went to the Médecins Sans Frontières Scientific Day in London. Though MSF is of course primarily a humanitarian organisation…
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post To our readers, wherever you are: results from our readership survey.Read more
At PLoS we have a number of ways of finding out about our readership but none are perfect: the fact that we…
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post MSF launches new website of all its researchRead more
Médecins Sans Frontières today launches a new website MSF Field Research that will be a tremendous resource for everyone interested in the…
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post EQUATOR – a new site for reporting guidelinesRead more
Last week saw the launch of the EQUATOR website that aims to provide resources for good reporting of health research. EQUATOR pulls…
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post Setting better standards in reporting – and doing – animal researchRead more
Last week I gave a talk at the British Association for the Advancement of Science (BA) BA Festival of Science as part…