Gavin Yamey's blog

One of the more “interesting” experiences of my journalistic career was co-authoring an Op-Ed for the San Francisco Chronicle in 2002 on the lack of evidence for prostate cancer screening using the PSA test.

Here’s another important step forward in the open access movement. Under its new editor Paul Farmer (who is often talked about as a future Nobel laureate), the international journal Health and Human Rights (HHR) has become fully open access.

The FDA’s recent proposal to allow drug companies to send doctors journal articles about off-label drug use has come under major fire over the last few months.

When we launched PLoS Medicine in October 2004, the editors announced that we would “not to be part of the cycle of dependency that has formed between journals and the pharmaceutical industry.”

The following is a statement from Peter Hotez, Editor in Chief of PLoS Neglected Tropical Diseases, and President of the Sabin Vaccine Institute, in reaction to President Bush’s announcement yesterday of a new global initiative to combat neglected tropical diseases.