Collection authors Lennart Svensson, Johan Nordgren & Sumit Sharma ask why everyone doesn’t get sick with winter vomiting disease? The observation that certain individuals appear…
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Medicine & Health Sciences Why doesn’t everyone get sick with winter vomiting disease?Read more
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Medicine & Health Sciences What Factors Protect Against Norovirus Infection and Gastroenteritis?Read more
Sasirekha Ramani, Mary Estes and Robert Atmar, from Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, USA, discuss genetic factors and immune mechanisms that can protect…
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Medicine & Health Sciences Norovirus – a tragedy of being commonRead more
Ben Lopman, lead author of the PLOS Collection “The Global Burden of Norovirus & Prospects for Vaccine Development,” introduces the project and explains…
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Medicine & Health Sciences What’s Norovirus Costing The World?Read more
Author Bruce Y. Lee discusses the global economic burden of norovirus, as reported in the PLOS Collection “The Global Burden of Norovirus…
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Medicine & Health Sciences Beyond investing: Making global health a reality for allRead more
Post authored by Liza Gross At what point is it no longer acceptable for the richest nations in the world to let…
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Medicine & Health Sciences The Global Development Framework in Transition: Where are Mothers and Newborns in the Post-2015 Era?Read more
By Dr. Koki Agarwal, Dr. Ana Langer & Joy Riggs-Perla While the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) underlined the necessity of better policies and programs to…
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Medicine & Health Sciences Timely child mortality estimates are a critical toolRead more
Romesh Silva, Ph.D. explains why accurate and real-time measurement of child mortality matters and what we can learn from the Real-Time Monitoring of…
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Medicine & Health Sciences Neglected Populations: Decreasing Inequalities & Improving Measurement in Maternal Health. A Call for Papers for a Maternal Health Task Force CollectionRead more
By Katie Millar, Jacquelyn Caglia and Ana Langer from the Maternal Health Task Force. Progress for All As a maternal health community…
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Medicine & Health Sciences Foreword to the WHO Estimates of the Global Burden of Foodborne DiseasesRead more
Kazuaki Miyagishima of the World Health Organization introduces the new WHO Report and PLOS Collection “Estimates of the Global Burden of Foodborne…
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Medicine & Health Sciences Reflections on the WHO Initiative to Estimate the Global Burden of Foodborne DiseasesRead more
Arie Havelaar and Rob Lake, authors of the World Health Organization Report and PLOS Collection “WHO Estimates of the Global Burden of…
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Medicine & Health Sciences The PLOS Collection on ‘real-time’ measurement of under-five mortalityRead more
Collection author Romesh Silva, Ph.D. explains why accurate and real-time measurement of child mortality matters and what we can learn from the…
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Medicine & Health Sciences Update to Blue Marble Health CollectionRead more
This week sees a major update to the PLOS Collection “Blue Marble Health: the mismatch between national wealth and population health” with…