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- 1From: PLoS Medicine. (Vol. 10, Issue 2) Peer-ReviewedGlobal Health: A Public Good without a Collective-Choice Rule Global health is a public good and ill-health in one part of the globe has consequences elsewhere: witness recent emerging infectious diseases. It...
- 2From: PLoS Medicine. (Vol. 10, Issue 2) Peer-ReviewedPrognostic models are abundant in the medical literature yet their use in practice seems limited. In this article, the third in the PROGRESS series, the authors review how such models are developed and validated, and...
- 3From: PLoS Medicine. (Vol. 10, Issue 2) Peer-ReviewedThe use of mobile electronic devices to support medical or public health practice, or m-health, is currently a hot topic. It has been predicted that by 2017 there will be "more mobile phones than people" on the planet...
- 4From: PLoS Medicine. (Vol. 10, Issue 2) Peer-ReviewedBackground: Diseases of the posterior segment of the eye, including age-related macular degeneration (AMD), have recently been recognised as the leading or second leading cause of blindness in several African countries....
- 5From: PLoS Medicine. (Vol. 10, Issue 2) Peer-ReviewedBackground: Certain non-steroidal anti-inflammatory drugs (NSAIDs) (e.g., rofecoxib [Vioxx]) increase the risk of heart attack and stroke and should be avoided in patients at high risk of cardiovascular events. Rates of...
- 6From: PLoS Medicine. (Vol. 10, Issue 2) Peer-ReviewedBackground: The World Health Organization initiative to eliminate mother-to-child transmission of syphilis aims for [greater than or equal to] 90% of pregnant women to be tested for syphilis and [greater than or equal...
- 7From: PLoS Medicine. (Vol. 10, Issue 2) Peer-ReviewedBackground: Understanding Mycobacterium tuberculosis (Mtb) transmission is essential to guide efficient tuberculosis control strategies. Traditional strain typing lacks sufficient discriminatory power to resolve large...
- 8From: PLoS Medicine. (Vol. 10, Issue 2) Peer-ReviewedPrognostic factor research aims to identify factors associated with subsequent clinical outcome in people with a particular disease or health condition. In this article, the second in the PROGRESS series, the authors...
- 9From: PLoS Medicine. (Vol. 10, Issue 2) Peer-ReviewedBackground: Intervention-generated inequalities are unintended variations in outcome that result from the organisation and delivery of health interventions. Socioeconomic inequalities in treatment may occur for some...
- 10From: PLoS Medicine. (Vol. 10, Issue 2) Peer-ReviewedClinical use of non-steroidal anti-inflammatory drugs (NSAIDs) carries cardiovascular risk, which acquires implications for public health against the backdrop of rising chronic disease rates in low- and middle-income...
- 11From: PLoS Medicine. (Vol. 10, Issue 2) Peer-ReviewedWhat Is the Problem? There are over 6 billion mobile phone subscribers and 75% of the world has access to a mobile phone [1]. Service and care providers, researchers, and national governments are excited at the...
- 12From: PLoS Medicine. (Vol. 10, Issue 2) Peer-ReviewedBackground: Obesity is associated with vitamin D deficiency, and both are areas of active public health concern. We explored the causality and direction of the relationship between body mass index (BMI) and...
- 13From: PLoS Medicine. (Vol. 10, Issue 2) Peer-ReviewedBackground: No studies have evaluated whether administering intravenous lactated Ringer's (LR) solution to patients with out-of-hospital cardiac arrest (OHCA) improves their outcomes, to our knowledge. Therefore, we...