Can we really fix US health care?
That’s the question that T.R. Reid, renowned correspondent for The Washington Post and a commentator for National Public Radio, set out to answer in his new book, called “The Healing of America: A...
View ArticleNew tools to improve access to healthcare services for Africa’s worst-off
Guest blog by Valéry Ridde, from the Département de médecine sociale et préventive, Centre de recherche du CHUM-Unité de Santé Internationale, Institut de recherche en sciences de la santé/CNRST. What...
View ArticleA new paradigm for global health?
A couple of weeks ago I attended one of the lectures in the Edinburgh Enlightenment series. This lecture was given by Lord Nigel Crisp, who was previously Chief Executive of the UK’s National Health...
View ArticleThe importance of emergency health care
Dr Rhona MacDonald, Freelance Editor rhonamacdonald@gmail.com According to a report just published by the Nuffield Trust, the number of emergency admissions to English hospitals has been rising for...
View ArticleThis Week in PLoS Medicine: Ghostwriting; Dengue & population density;...
Image Credit: fotologic Six new articles published this week in PLoS Medicine, including the monthly editorial which coincides with the launch of the new Ghostwriting Collection. The PLoS Medicine...
View ArticleThis Week in PLoS Medicine: Cancer & contraceptives in South Africa; Neonatal...
Image Credit: Kabilan Subramanian Four new articles were published this week in PLoS Medicine, including the beginning of a series on health systems guidance. A case-control study conducted by Emily...
View ArticleStrengthening Rwandan Surgery: Surgical Residents’ Perspective
Guest bloggers Gita Mody, Robin Petroze & Edmond Ntaganda discuss efforts to strengthen surgical care in Rwanda. In March 2011, the Rwanda Surgical Society hosted a workshop in Kigali on the theme...
View ArticleBook Review: A maternal and perinatal health ‘how-to manual’ with a difference
Natasha Hezelgrave from Kings College London reviews ‘Maternal and Perinatal Health in Developing Countries’ Maternal mortality represents one of the starkest disparities in health outcomes between...
View ArticleXpert MTB/RIF for those with HIV; the importance of considering equity
Anna Vassall from the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine discusses a recently published analysis of the potential health and economic consequences of implementing Xpert MTB/RIF in southern...
View ArticleTurning the World Upside Down
Isobel Braithwaite shares her thoughts on the recent launch event of the Turning the World Upside Down online platform. A couple of weeks back, I attended the launch event of the new Turning the World...
View ArticleFrom What We Know to What We Do: Now is the Time for Governments to Fix a...
Kristine Husøy Onarheim and Johanne Helene Iversen from Universities Allied for Essential Medicines write about the broken system for drug development, and how governments are given an opportunity to...
View ArticleThis Week in PLOS Medicine: Translational Research Standards, New Cancer Risk...
This week PLOS Medicine publishes the following new articles: Image Credit: snre, Flickr The promise of translational medicine attracts increased funding, yet challenges in translating animal research...
View ArticleHow a Free Trade Agreement Threatens Your Health and the Health of the People...
Reshma Ramachandran and David Carroll warn that the Trans-Pacific Partnership will trample over access to affordable medicines Last month, Wikileaks posted the complete Intellectual Property (IP)...
View ArticleLooking toward the future of diabetes prevention with Dr. Sanjay Basu
Sanjay Basu, Assistant Professor of Medicine at the Stanford University Prevention Research Center, answers questions from PLOS Social Media Associate Sara Kassabian. [Post updated on April 7, 2016]...
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