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This week in PLoS Medicine: El Niño and dengue fever; clinical trial...

Read the new papers published in PLoS Medicine this week, including research on the relationship between climate and dengue incidence in Puerto Rico, Mexico and Thailand and a Perspective that...

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The changing nature of global health institutions

In January 2010 PLoS Medicine published a four-part weekly series examining the ways in which global health institutions and arrangements are changing and evolving. Image Credit: yo|ko In the...

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Is a megaphone drowning out the most effective way to quit smoking?

Earlier this week NPR ran an item about how anti-smoking efforts have evolved over the decades. Since 1984 when the first nicotine gum became available over the counter, nicotine replacement therapy...

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Can Animal Models of Disease Reliably Inform Human Studies?

Articles published in PLoS Medicine and PLoS Biology today suggest that selective reporting of medical research carried out on animals may be creating a false impression of how effective drugs might...

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This 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: "Good Things for Young People"; Getting STRICTA...

New articles in PLoS Medicine this week include research on the community-based MEMA kwa Vijana (“Good things for young people”) intensive sexual health education programme in schools in rural...

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New submission and peer review system for PLoS Medicine

Dear all, Today we launched a new submission and peer-review system for PLoS Medicine. The system is called PLoS Editorial Manager and it puts us on the same software that PLoS ONE migrated to a few...

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World Health Day: Combating antimicrobial resistance

Today is World Health Day, an event held on the 7th April every year since 1950 to mark the founding of the World Health Organisation and an opportunity to draw worldwide attention to a subject of...

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This Week in PLoS Medicine: HAART and HIV in DR Congo; blood pressure in the...

Two Research Articles, a Policy Forum, and the fifth installment of our Migration and Health series were published in this week’s PLoS Medicine. Image Credit: topgold An observational study by Andrew...

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Redefining ‘home’– migration in pictures

Immigration policy has been in the news a lot recently, with EU ministers set to discuss an overhaul of the Schengen agreement this week and the attempt by North Carolina – the latest in a line of US...

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