Plaintiffs' attorneys are beginning to challenge the practice of medical ghostwriting, in which doctors lend their names to medical marketing literature, according to an article published in the medical journal Public Library of Science. The practice has been uncovered during discovery in products liability litigation over drugs that plaintiffs allege are dangerous, including Neurontin, Paxil, Zoloft, Fen-phen, Vioxx and Prempro.
In Russian roulette, whether you live or die depends on what chamber of a gun you happen to select. In the United States, it seems to depend on what county you happen to live in. That, in essence, was the message conveyed by a study published last week in the Public Library of Science examining life expectancy. Unlike prior work on the topic, this study, by researchers at the Harvard School of Public Health, focused on variations in life span by county. The study would have evoked little surprise, and perhaps relatively little media attention, if it had merely shown that some of us live longer than others based on factors that vary by location. Certainly, Fairfield County in my home state of Connecticut or Orange County in California evoke very different images than, say, Buffalo County...
Home as a variable The living conditions of lab mice affect their behavior, their brains and, ultimately, the results of experiments involving them, according to a report from the University of Colorado Medical School published in PLoS ONE, a journal of the Public Library of Science.
A small but still growing army of devotees do publish in open-access journals, but most researchers lost interest when their requirement for unhindered access to the literature was met not by all their colleagues publishing only in open-access journals, but by their librarians paying fat site license fees to publishers. The accessibility and reuseability of research published by the Public Library of Science (PLoS.org), BioMed Central (biomedcentral.com, a sister company of The Scientist), and other OA publishers provides an advantage that is always at least a match for traditional publishers.
SALT LAKE CITY - Scientists said Wednesday they've discovered fossils in the southern Utah desert of two new dinosaur species closely related to the Triceratops, including one with 15 horns on its large head. The discovery of the new plant-eating species - including Kosmoceratops richardsoni, considered the most ornate-headed dinosaur known to man - was reported Wednesday in the online scientific journal PLoS ONE, produced by the Public Library of Science.
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