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of the Department of Family Practice and Community Medicine,
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health issues affecting women across their life spans and publishes
papers on the gender differences in biological response between
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SAN FRANCISCO----The Public Library
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international open-access, peer-reviewed journal.
"PLoS Pathogens provides a much needed single venue for publishing
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According to Journal Editor-in-Chief Mark V. He
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"This journal is among a new generation of open-access journals
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