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Open Access to Health and Human Rights [1]

Submitted by Gavin Yamey on Wed, 2008-07-23 01:37.

Here’s another important step forward in the open access movement. Under its new editor Paul Farmer [2] (who is often talked about [3] as a future Nobel laureate), the international journal Health and Human Rights [4] (HHR) has become fully open access.

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Harms of promoting off-label uses to doctors [6]

Submitted by Gavin Yamey on Fri, 2008-07-18 02:39.

The FDA’s recent proposal [7] to allow drug companies to send doctors journal articles about off-label drug use has come under major fire over the last few months.

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Just Saying No to Drug Reps [9]

Submitted by Gavin Yamey on Tue, 2008-07-15 13:46.

When we launched PLoS Medicine in October 2004, the editors announced [10] that we would “not to be part of the cycle of dependency that has formed between journals and the pharmaceutical industry.”

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Peter Hotez Responds to US President's Initiative to Combat NTDs [13]

Submitted by Gavin Yamey on Fri, 2008-02-22 05:01.

The following is a statement from Peter Hotez, Editor in Chief of PLoS Neglected Tropical Diseases [14], and President of the Sabin Vaccine Institute [15], in reaction to President Bush’s announcement [16] yesterday of a new global initiative to combat neglected tropical diseases.

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Partnering for Global Health Forum 2008, Guest Blog by Joanna Lowell [18]

Submitted by Gavin Yamey on Wed, 2008-02-06 16:47.

PLoS Neglected Tropical Diseases [19] invited Dr Joana Lowell, Project Director at the non-profit Bio Ventures for Global Health [20], to write a Guest Blog on the upcoming Partnering for Global Health Forum [21].

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