The Power of the Pediatrician’s Voice: Reflections on PAS 2018

The Power of the Pediatrician’s Voice: Reflections on PAS 2018   post-info Organizers and award recipients from the Pediatric Academic Societies (PAS) Meeting provide their impressions of this year’s meeting. The Pediatric Academic Societies (PAS) Meeting, held

Human Intelligence & Artificial Intelligence in Medicine: A day with the Stanford Presence Center

post-iLast week, PLOS Medicine and PLOS ONE editors Linda Nevin and Meghan Byrne attended Human Intelligence & Artificial Intelligence (HIAI) in Medicine, a Stanford Presence Center symposium. HIAI brought together thought leaders in medicine, computer

Stanford ChildX 2018: Big ideas for little patients

post-inf By Linda Nevin PLOS Medicine Associate Editor Linda Nevin shares some highlights from ChildX, a cross-disciplinary science, medicine, public policy and healthcare symposium on research developments and opportunities for improving pediatric care. Stanford faculty

Voluntary Male Circumcision as HIV Prevention in Africa

PLOS Medicine Associate Editor Linda Nevin discusses the landmark publication, and striking impact, of the first randomized clinical trial of voluntary medical male circumcision, published in PLOS Medicine in 2005. Since the 1980s, observational studies have shown that HIV infection … Continue reading »

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The Truth about Standardized Packaging? Blow Some My Way

PLOS Medicine Associate Editor, Linda Nevin, discusses how a 2014 research article by Selda Ulucanlar and colleagues deconstructed advocacy documents submitted to the UK government by tobacco companies, and catches up with one of the authors for a Q&A. As … Continue reading »

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