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Editors’ Wishes for an Illuminated Season and an Open New Year

There are great opportunities for Open Access publications to advance human health, provided the medical research and publishing communities can rise to the challenges that come with them. There are m...

On 06 Jan 2014

Editors’ Wishes for an Illuminated Season and an Open New Year

There are great opportunities for Open Access publications to advance human health, provided the medical research and publishing communities can rise to the challenges that come with them. There a...

On 02 Jan 2014

PLoS Medicine Series on Big Food: The Food Industry Is Ripe for Scrutiny

A lay out of the background on the role of Big Food in global health, and offer three competing views of how public health professionals can respond. Subsequent articles include: a comparison of soda...

On 02 Jul 2012

Beyond the Numbers: Describing Care at the End of Life

PLoS Medicine, Olav Lindqvist and colleagues describe the range of non pharmacological care giving activities provided by palliative care staff for cancer patients in the last days of life. Their find...

On 01 Mar 2012

Speed and Convenience aren’t Everything with Diagnostics

Editors reflect on recent research and analysis in PLoS Medicine that highlights the need to fully evaluate rapid and convenient diagnostics. They argue that while rapidly determining the cause of an...

On 31 Oct 2011

Ghostwriting Revisited: New Perspectives but few Solutions in Sight

The editorial is about articles in Plos that speaks about ghost writing. URL:[http://www.plosmedicine.org/article/browseIssue.action].

On 02 Sep 2011

Ghostwriting Revisited: New Perspectives but Few Solutions in Sight

The editorial is about articles in Plos that speaks about ghost writing. URL:[http://www.plosmedicine.org/article/browseIssue.action].

On 02 Sep 2011

Ghostwriting: The Dirty Little Secret of Medical Publishing That Just Got Bigger

What is ghost writing? How it can be tackled?

On 05 Oct 2009

Ethics Without Borders

The authors shows the problems that can arise when research is done in the context of humanitarian relief work and also notes that ethical oversight of such research needs to be rigorous, but also pra...

On 06 Aug 2009

Homelessness is not just a Housing Problem

Political will, imaginative and collaborative solutions from across the spectrum of health and social care providers are needed to address the needs of homeless individuals.

On 06 Jan 2009