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...
View ArticleEncouraging best practice in systematic reviews
The PLoS Medicine editorial this month focuses on initiatives ensuring best practice in the conduct and reporting of systematic reviews. This editorial announces key changes in journal policy towards...
View ArticleFrom ‘No Health Without Research’ to ‘Research for Health’– World Health...
Guest blog by Tikki Pang, Director, Research Policy & Cooperation, World Health Organization. In a blog posted on January 25, 2011 I proposed that ministers of health in developing countries must...
View ArticleHow can we improve peer review: the impact of reporting guidelines
There’s a lot of nay-saying about peer review out there – it’s messy, inadequate, timeconsuming, boring, and nobody knows what it’s supposed to do anyway. But despite that, peer review is widely...
View ArticleWhat should the ethical protections be in cluster trials?
This week I was delighted to listen in to a consensus conference of researchers, ethicists, editors and other interested parties, aiming to produce a set of guidelines for the ethical conduct and...
View ArticleSanitation is Key in Controlling Worm Diseases
"Now that the elimination of neglected tropical diseases is coming to the forefront of global attention, integrated control approaches—using a combination of preventive chemotherapy; information,...
View ArticleIs it okay to be just another researcher?
You’ve finally managed to satisfy the difficult reviewer and the pesky editors, and your manuscript has been accepted for publication. It has taken many many hours of often frustrating work but it can...
View ArticleGetting in the Access Loop
I wish I could attend your webinar on enabling more health researchers in Africa to effectively publish their work but, ironically, I will not be able to get to the Internet at that time . . . Several...
View ArticleExploring the Possibility of HIV Treatment as Prevention: Interview with...
To mark the launch of the PLoS Medicine collection “Investigating the Impact of Treatment on New HIV Infections”, I caught up with Dr. Timothy Hallett, who is Reader in Global Health at Imperial...
View ArticleNo More Guesstimation: How to Reliably Estimate Trends in Child Mortality
Reliable estimates of child mortality are critical for monitoring progress toward Millennium Development Goal 4 (MDG-4), so I asked Dr. Kenneth Hill, who currently chairs the Technical Advisory Group...
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