Virginia Barbour's blog

The editorial published in this week’s PLoS Medicine looks back over the 5 years since the journal made its first call for papers and describes a new evidence-based approach to the aims and scope of the journal, which emphasizes the focus of PLoS Medicine on the diseases and risk factors that cause the greatest losses in years of healthy life worldwide.

The paper on silent heart attacks by Han Kim and colleagues and its associated perspective by Clara Chow can be found by clicking on the links in this blog.

It’s now much easier to provide feedback on PLoS Medicine articles. You can post comments and notes, and even rate articles.

A rather amazing thing happened this week in the often somewhat sorry state of reporting of medical research

Last week the World Association of Medical Editors announced the new Declaration of Helsinki. This document, which was first drawn up in 1964, is essential reading for everyone doing research on human participants.