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Focusing PLoS Medicine on the diseases and risk factors that cause the greatest losses in years of healthy life worldwide [1]

Submitted by Virginia Barbour on Tue, 2009-04-28 03:30.

The editorial [2] published in this week’s PLoS Medicine [3] 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.

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In the news: "silent" heart attacks [5]

Submitted by Virginia Barbour on Fri, 2009-04-17 14:41.

The paper on silent heart attacks by Han Kim and colleagues [6] and its associated perspective by Clara Chow [7] can be found by clicking on the links in this blog.

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Easier commenting - and now rating - on PLoS Medicine papers [9]

Submitted by Virginia Barbour on Wed, 2009-04-15 03:38.

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

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Man bites dog: researcher gets chance to counter inaccurate reporting of article [11]

Submitted by Virginia Barbour on Fri, 2009-01-23 15:08.

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

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New version of the Declaration of Helsinki [13]

Submitted by Virginia Barbour on Wed, 2008-11-05 05:28.

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.

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