The Signaling Pathways Project is a multi-omics knowledgebase based upon public, manually curated transcriptomic and cistromic (ChIP-Seq) datasets involving genetic and small molecule manipulations of…
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Medicine & Health The BIRTH Special Collection
In 2014, the EU funded a COST Action that brought together over 120 scientists, practitioners, activists and policy makers from 34 countries, to advance research and practice in an area of great…
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Medicine & Health Advances in Clinical Trial Design for Development of New Treatments for Tuberculosis
With recent opportunities to test combinations of new and repurposed drugs for the treatment of TB, new questions arise for optimal clinical trial design. To address these, in March 2018 WHO organized…
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Medicine & Health Economic Cases for NCD Prevention and Control: A Global Perspective
Economic Cases for NCD Prevention and Control expands the evidence base on the economic burden of noncommunicable diseases (NCDs) and the impact of NCD prevention and control programs globally. This…
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Medicine & Health DeWorm3
Soil-transmitted helminths infect an estimated 1.45 billion people globally. The current WHO strategy for controlling STH is based on controlling morbidity via mass drug administration of medications…
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Medicine & Health High-Quality Health Systems
High quality health care will be critical to attaining the Sustainable Development Goals in low- and middle income countries. However, little is known on levels of quality and its distribution within…
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Medicine & Health NTD Modeling Consortium: Insights on data needs
As Neglected Tropical Disease (NTD) programs move towards the 2020 goals, there is a need to strengthen data collection and evaluation for decision making. Mathematical modeling has an important role…
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Medicine & Health Neglected Populations: Decreasing Inequalities & Improving Measurement in Maternal Health
In order to address the need to reduce inequalities and showcase necessary measurement improvements to uncover them, the Maternal Health Task Force (MHTF) is partnering for the fourth time with PLOS…
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Medicine & Health Non-Communicable Diseases and Maternal Health Around the Globe
Non-communicable diseases (NCDs) account for almost 65% of women’s deaths around the globe, and three quarters of women’s deaths caused by NCDs occur in low- and middle-income countries…
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Medicine & Health Replication of influential studies evaluating interventions for HIV prevention and treatment
Three decades of work on HIV prevention and treatment have yielded effective biomedical, behavioral, social, and structural interventions in controlled trials. Few of these have been adopted at a…
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Biology & Life Sciences GLBIO 2019
The 14th Great Lakes Bioinformatics Conference 2019 (GLBIO) took place at the University of Wisconsin at Madison from May 19th to 22nd. The conference was organized by the Great Lakes Bioinformatics…