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Open Democracy

America’s financial meltdown: lessons and prospects, Ann Pettifor 8 weeks 6 days old
Death in Shanghai, law in China, Li Datong 9 weeks 18 hours old
Scottish Labour, where's the coffee?, Gerry Hassan 9 weeks 19 hours old

BMC - Health Research Policy and Systems

BMC Infectious Disease

Outcome of HIV-associated Pneumocystis pneumonia in hospitalized patients from 2000 through 2003 9 weeks 10 hours old
Pandemic influenza in Australia: Using telephone surveys to measure perceptions of threat and willingness to comply 9 weeks 1 day old
Impact of Empiric Antimicrobial Therapy on Outcomes in Patients with Escherichia coli and Klebsiella pneumoniae Bacteremia: A Cohort Study 9 weeks 1 day old

BMC Public Health

Human Resources for Health

The health worker recruitment and deployment process in Kenya: an emergency hiring program 9 weeks 10 hours old
Incentives for retaining and motivating health workers in Pacific and Asian countries 9 weeks 1 day old
Developing a competency-based curriculum in HIV for nursing schools in Haiti 11 weeks 4 days old

Malaria Journal

Ototoxicity of artemether/lumefantrine in the treatment of falciparum malaria: a randomized trial 9 weeks 10 hours old
Malaria transmission in Dakar: a two-year survey 9 weeks 10 hours old
Differences in Fc gamma receptor IIa genotypes and IgG subclass pattern of anti-malarial antibodies between sympatric ethnic groups in Mali 9 weeks 1 day old

Conflict (Eldis

Protecting human rights in conflict and post-conflict environments 9 weeks 17 hours old
What can be done to strengthen environmental protection and promote sustainable development in the Central Albertine Rift? 9 weeks 5 days old
How effective is the Taliban's use of propaganda? 9 weeks 5 days old

Aid and Development (Eldis)

New aid for African agriculture: how will this be realised? 9 weeks 18 hours old
Should NGOs be more 'aid effective'? 9 weeks 4 days old
Time for a new 'aid architecture'? 9 weeks 4 days old

Health and Quality of Life Outcomes

Child-OIDP index in Brazil: cross-cultural adaptation and validation 9 weeks 1 day old
Effects of glatiramer acetate on fatigue and days of absence from work in first-time treated relapsing-remitting multiple sclerosis 10 weeks 4 days old
Effects of glatiramer acetate on fatigue and days of absence from work in first-time treated relapsing-remitting multiple sclerosis 10 weeks 4 days old

BMC Health Services Research

BMC Medical Research Methodology

The HCV Synthesis Project: Scope, methodology, and preliminary results 9 weeks 2 days old
Data management for prospective research studies using SAS software 9 weeks 5 days old
Industry-supported meta-analyses compared with meta-analyses with non-profit or no support: Differences in methodological quality and conclusions 10 weeks 10 hours old

BMC Cost Effectiveness and Resource Allocation

Cost-effectiveness of smoking cessation to prevent age-related macular degeneration 9 weeks 5 days old
Societal costs of air pollution-related health hazards: A review of methods and results 9 weeks 5 days old
The costs of traumatic brain injury due to motorcycle accidents in Hanoi, Vietnam 12 weeks 4 days old

Influencing Policy (Eldis)

The challenges of corruption in the water sector 9 weeks 5 days old
Key lessons for up-scaling and out-scaling of DFID research 12 weeks 4 days old
Communicating for sustainable development 13 weeks 1 day old

Children (Eldis)

How can children effectively participate in disaster risk reduction? 9 weeks 5 days old
Analysing education and school-to-work transitions amongst young people in Brazil 9 weeks 5 days old
Conditional cash transfers for South African children 10 weeks 4 days old

Education (Eldis)

Analysing education and school-to-work transitions amongst young people in Brazil 9 weeks 5 days old
Gender inequality in education 13 weeks 5 days old
Gender and sexual relations in South Africa 13 weeks 5 days old

Health (Eldis)

Understanding the links between ill-health and poverty 9 weeks 5 days old
Persisting rural poverty in the Near East and North Africa (NENA) region 10 weeks 6 days old
Monitoring and evaluation training for nutrition related programmes 10 weeks 6 days old

World Health Organisation: Disease Outbreaks

Cholera in Iraq 9 weeks 5 days old
Avian influenza – situation in Indonesia – update 44 9 weeks 6 days old
Yellow fever in Côte d'Ivoire 14 weeks 4 days old

BMJ News

New WHO chief calls for better preparations for flu pandemic 9 weeks 5 days old
Most cancers in Europe are avoidable 9 weeks 5 days old
Influential nutritional research is often funded by industry 9 weeks 5 days old

Reproductive Health

ICPD to MDGs: missing links and common grounds. 9 weeks 6 days old
Gynaecological morbidity among HIV positive pregnant women in Cameroon 19 weeks 5 days old
Comparison of two doses and two routes of administration of misoprostol after pre-treatment with mifepristone for early pregnancy termination 21 weeks 1 day old

HIV/AIDS (Eldis)

Cote d'Ivoire faces a dramatic shortage of health workers 9 weeks 6 days old
How community and faith-based organisations can conduct participatory monitoring and evaluation to improve HIV/AIDS interventions 10 weeks 4 days old
Countries are not opting to use AIDS funds in ways that strengthen their whole health system 11 weeks 18 hours old

Annals of General Psychiatry

Increased plasma homocysteine levels in patients with multiple sclerosis and depression 10 weeks 10 hours old
Costs and effects of paliperidone extended release compared with alternative oral antipsychotic agents in patients with schizophrenia in Greece: a cost effectiveness study 11 weeks 5 days old
Stigmatising attitude of medical students towards a psychiatry label 12 weeks 1 day old

BMC Medical Education

Learning based on patient case reviews: an interview study 10 weeks 4 days old
International medical graduates (IMGs) needs assessment study: comparison between current IMG trainees and program directors 11 weeks 4 days old
An investigation into how the European Working Time Directive has affected anaesthetic training. 14 weeks 10 hours old

AIDS (AIDS Research and Policy)

Predictive Validity of a Brief Antiretroviral Adherence Index: Retrospective Cohort Analysis under Conditions of Repetitive Administration 11 weeks 4 days old
Microbicides 2008 Conference: From Discovery to Advocacy 13 weeks 4 days old
HIV-2 diagnosis and quantification in high-risk patients 13 weeks 5 days old

International Journal for Equity in Health

Is it possible to identify patients' sex when reading blinded illness narratives? - An experimental study about gender bias. 13 weeks 1 day old
13,915 reasons for equity in sexual offences legislation: a national school-based survey in South Africa 16 weeks 10 hours old
Determinants of self rated health and mortality in Russia - are they the same ? 16 weeks 4 days old

BMC Women's Health

Physical activity counseling in maternity and child health care -a controlled trial 13 weeks 5 days old
A Prospective study of the association between weight changes and self-rated health 14 weeks 4 days old
Study of knowledge, perception and attitude of adolescent girls towards STIs/HIV, safer sex and sex education: (A cross sectional survey of urban adolescent schoolgirls in South Delhi, India) 16 weeks 6 days old

Emerging Themes in Epidemiology

Widespread rape does not directly appear to increase the overall HIV prevalence in conflict-affected countries: So now what? 16 weeks 10 hours old
Hispanic Latin America, Spain and the Spanish-speaking Caribbean: a rich source of reference material for public health, epidemiology and tropical medicine 16 weeks 10 hours old
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BMC International Health and Human Rights

Awareness of health effects of cooking smoke among women in the Gondar Region of Ethiopia: a pilot survey 17 weeks 4 days old
A multilevel analysis of effect of neighbourhood and individual wealth status on sexual behaviour among women: evidence from Nigeria 2003 Demographic and Health Survey 20 weeks 4 days old
Mental health of returnees: refugees in Germany prior to their state-sponsored repatriation 22 weeks 5 days old

Organisation Profiles

The Medic to Medic Programme 22 weeks 18 hours old

Journal of Mental Health

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News from Medsin

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