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 Health Consequences of the Asian TsunamiView Collection
In order to revisit the health consequences of the Asian tsunami of December 2004 six months on, PLOS Medicine commissioned a collection of Magazine articles that were published in April 2005. We…
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Medicine & Health Voluntary Medical Male Circumcision for HIV Prevention: The Cost, Impact, and Challenges of Accelerated Scale-UpView Collection
This collection of articles published in PLOS, in conjunction with the Joint United Nations Programme on HIV/AIDS (UNAIDS) and the United States President's Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief (PEPFAR)…
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Medicine & Health Water and SanitationView Collection
This four-part series on water and sanitation leads with an article by Jamie Bartram and Sandy Cairncross who argue that the massive burden of ill health associated with poor hygiene, sanitation and…
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Medicine & Health Global Health EstimatesView Collection
Estimates of global health indicators - which give insight into death and disease rates, document advances in development, and help policymakers monitor progress - are absolutely essential for…
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Medicine & Health Grand Challenges CollectionView Collection
In this special collection, four policy papers cover a range of ethical, social, and cultural issues related to the Grand Challenges in Global Health Initiative…
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Biology & Life Sciences The Mice Drawer System Experiment & the Space Endurance Record-Breaking MiceView Collection
The ability to live for long periods in the absence of normal gravity requires comprehensive understanding of structural and functional changes that occur in the bodies of humans and other mammals…
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Medicine & Health Global Health Diplomacy CollectionView Collection
In April 2010 PLOS Medicine launched a six-part series on global health diplomacy. In the introductory article, Harley Feldbaum and Joshua Michaud consider the important interplay between foreign…
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Medicine & Health Monitoring Universal Health CoverageView Collection
This collection presents a global framework for monitoring progress towards Universal Health Coverage (UHC) conducted by the World Health Organisation and the World Bank Group. UHC is defined as…
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Medicine & Health Sub-Saharan Africa’s Mothers, Newborns and ChildrenView Collection
In June and July 2010, PLOS Medicine published a series of articles on maternal, newborn, and child health in sub-Saharan Africa. The series provides a snapshot of the health and causes of death among…
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Medicine & Health Child Mortality Estimation MethodsView Collection
Millennium Development Goal 4 calls for a reduction of two-thirds in the under-5 mortality rate between 1990 and 2015. Reliable estimates of child mortality are critical to the monitoring of progress…