Pandemic influenza – where do we go from here?
Last Tuesday I attended a Royal Society discussion meeting titled ‘Pandemic influenza: frontiers in research‘ which I hoped might provide some answers as to where research is headed in the wake of the...
View ArticleThis week in PLoS Medicine: Decreasing newborn death; H1N1; and more!
Read the new papers published in PLoS Medicine this week, including two Research Articles: The first finds an association between prior seasonal flu vaccination and increased risk of 2009 pandemic H1N1...
View ArticleThis week in PLoS Medicine: SARS, HPV, and Influenza
Read the new papers published in PLoS Medicine this week, including a Research Article that reviewed the published epidemiological literature on SARS and shows that less than a quarter of papers were...
View ArticleThis Week in PLoS Medicine: C-reactive protein in coronary artery disease;...
Three articles are published in PLoS Medicine this week. A systematic review and meta-analysis by Harry Hemingway and colleagues looks at the role of C-reactive protein as a prognostic marker of...
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This Week in PLoS Medicine: H1N1 vaccine effectiveness; Reducing deaths from...
Image Credit: US Army Two new articles were published this week in PLoS Medicine: Results from a European multicentre case-control study by Marta Valenciano and colleagues suggest good protection by...
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This Week in PLoS Medicine: Alcohol industry; Flu vaccines & premature...
Image Credit: Misserion Closing out May with a big publishing week, PLoS Medicine released five new articles this week, including our editorial and the continuation of the Migration and Health series....
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This Week in PLoS Medicine: Mapping anemia risk; Flu & invasive pneumococcal...
Image Credit: Ed Uthman This week week, four new articles were published in PLoS Medicine, including the continuation of our Migration and Health series. Ricardo Soares Magalhães and colleagues used...
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This Week in PLoS Medicine: Serologic data on flu infection; HIV...
Image Credit: MIKI Yoshihito Four new articles were published this week in PLoS Medicine, including a Research Article and Perspective on an HIV self-test method. Joseph Wu and colleagues report that...
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Flu Debate Highlights Opacity of Public Health Research
Image: Colorized transmission electron micrograph of Avian influenza A H5N1 viruses (seen in gold) grown in MDCK cells (seen in green). Credit: CDC/ Cynthia Goldsmith, Jacqueline Katz, Sherif R. Zaki...
View ArticleNow is the time for transparency and access to clinical-trial data
Carl Heneghan, Director of the University of Oxford’s Centre of Evidence-Based Medicine, discusses recent developments in access to clinical-trial data. The Pharmaceutical industry and drug regulators...
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This Week in PLOS Medicine: Unpublished Clinical Trials Data, Flu Vaccine for...
This week PLOS Medicine publishes the following articles: Image credit: AS Jegede, PLOS Medicine, e0040073 The current influenza (flu) vaccination policy in England and Wales should be expanded to...
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This Week in PLOS Medicine: AIDS Treatment in Children, Influenza Vaccination...
This week PLOS Medicine publishes the following new articles: Image credit: NIAID, Flickr Using observational data collected in cohort studies in Southern Africa, Michael Schomaker and colleagues...
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This Week in PLOS Medicine: Maternal Health Collection, Pharmaceutical...
This week PLOS Medicine publishes the following new articles: Image credit: Jack Zalium, Flickr The Maternal Health Task Force (MHTF) and PLOS Medicine issue the call for papers for Year 3 of the...
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Lessons that Last, and Last, and Last: 400 Pearls and Still Counting
In conjunction with the publication of the 400th Pearls article, PLOS Pathogens Pearls Editor Joseph Heitman reflects on the continued success of Pearls, an Open Access compendium of the “lessons that...
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