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In their February editorial, the PLOS Medicine editors discuss the challenges that mobile health initiatives face in approaching their potential to transform health service delivery. The editorial highlights two systematic reviews published in the journal that address the ability of mobile health technologies to improve health care service delivery, and impact on disease management by health care consumers. It has been predicted that globally there will be more mobile phones than people by 2017, and most countries have begun to develop mobile health pilot projects or initiatives. In the editorial, the editors outline three major challenges for mobile health advocates: firstly, whether mobile health systems are able to operate with each other and with existing electronic health systems; secondly, whether systems are developed using open standards; and thirdly, how the effects of mobile health systems will be evaluated.

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Editorial

A Reality Checkpoint for Mobile Health: Three Challenges to Overcome

The PLOS Medicine Editors

PLOS Medicine: published February 26, 2013 | https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pmed.1001395

Essay

Scaling Up mHealth: Where Is the Evidence?

Mark Tomlinson, Mary Jane Rotheram-Borus, Leslie Swartz, Alexander C. Tsai

PLOS Medicine: published February 12, 2013 | https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pmed.1001382

Perspective

Cardiovascular Risk of NSAIDs: Time to Translate Knowledge into Practice

K. Srinath Reddy, Ambuj Roy

PLOS Medicine: published February 12, 2013 | https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pmed.1001389

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Policy Forum

Who Should Pay for Global Health, and How Much?

Luis R. Carrasco, Richard Coker, Alex R. Cook

PLOS Medicine: published February 19, 2013 | https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pmed.1001392

Guidelines and Guidance

Prognosis Research Strategy (PROGRESS) 2: Prognostic Factor Research

Richard D. Riley, Jill A. Hayden, Ewout W. Steyerberg, Karel G. M. Moons, Keith Abrams, Panayiotis A. Kyzas, Núria Malats, Andrew Briggs, Sara Schroter, Douglas G. Altman, Harry Hemingway, for the PROGRESS Group

PLOS Medicine: published February 5, 2013 | https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pmed.1001380

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Prognosis Research Strategy (PROGRESS) 3: Prognostic Model Research

Ewout W. Steyerberg, Karel G. M. Moons, Danielle A. van der Windt, Jill A. Hayden, Pablo Perel, Sara Schroter, Richard D. Riley, Harry Hemingway, Douglas G. Altman, for the PROGRESS Group

PLOS Medicine: published February 5, 2013 | https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pmed.1001381

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Research Articles

Use of Non-Steroidal Anti-Inflammatory Drugs That Elevate Cardiovascular Risk: An Examination of Sales and Essential Medicines Lists in Low-, Middle-, and High-Income Countries

Patricia McGettigan, David Henry

PLOS Medicine: published February 12, 2013 | https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pmed.1001388

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Prehospital Lactated Ringer's Solution Treatment and Survival in Out-of-Hospital Cardiac Arrest: A Prospective Cohort Analysis

Akihito Hagihara, Manabu Hasegawa, Takeru Abe, Yoshifumi Wakata, Takashi Nagata, Yoshihiro Nabeshima

PLOS Medicine: published February 19, 2013 | https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pmed.1001394

Socioeconomic Inequalities in Lung Cancer Treatment: Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis

Lynne F. Forrest, Jean Adams, Helen Wareham, Greg Rubin, Martin White

PLOS Medicine: published February 5, 2013 | https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pmed.1001376

Whole Genome Sequencing versus Traditional Genotyping for Investigation of a Mycobacterium tuberculosis Outbreak: A Longitudinal Molecular Epidemiological Study

Andreas Roetzer, Roland Diel, Thomas A. Kohl, Christian Rückert, Ulrich Nübel, Jochen Blom, Thierry Wirth, Sebastian Jaenicke, Sieglinde Schuback, Sabine Rüsch-Gerdes, Philip Supply, Jörn Kalinowski, Stefan Niemann

PLOS Medicine: published February 12, 2013 | https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pmed.1001387

Global Estimates of Syphilis in Pregnancy and Associated Adverse Outcomes: Analysis of Multinational Antenatal Surveillance Data

Lori Newman, Mary Kamb, Sarah Hawkes, Gabriela Gomez, Lale Say, Armando Seuc, Nathalie Broutet

PLOS Medicine: published February 26, 2013 | https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pmed.1001396

Prevalence of Age-Related Macular Degeneration in Nakuru, Kenya: A Cross-Sectional Population-Based Study

Wanjiku Mathenge, Andrew Bastawrous, Tunde Peto, Irene Leung, Allen Foster, Hannah Kuper

PLOS Medicine: published February 19, 2013 | https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pmed.1001393

Causal Relationship between Obesity and Vitamin D Status: Bi-Directional Mendelian Randomization Analysis of Multiple Cohorts

Karani S. Vimaleswaran, Diane J. Berry, Chen Lu, Emmi Tikkanen, Stefan Pilz, Linda T. Hiraki, Jason D. Cooper, Zari Dastani, Rui Li, Denise K. Houston, Andrew R. Wood, Karl Michaëlsson, Liesbeth Vandenput, Lina Zgaga, Laura M. Yerges-Armstrong, Mark I. McCarthy, Josée Dupuis, Marika Kaakinen, Marcus E. Kleber, Karen Jameson, Nigel Arden, Olli Raitakari, Jorma Viikari, Kurt K. Lohman, Luigi Ferrucci, Håkan Melhus, Erik Ingelsson, Liisa Byberg, Lars Lind, Mattias Lorentzon, Veikko Salomaa, Harry Campbell, Malcolm Dunlop, Braxton D. Mitchell, Karl-Heinz Herzig, Anneli Pouta, Anna-Liisa Hartikainen, the Genetic Investigation of Anthropometric Traits (GIANT) consortium, Elizabeth A. Streeten, Evropi Theodoratou, Antti Jula, Nicholas J. Wareham, Claes Ohlsson, Timothy M. Frayling, Stephen B. Kritchevsky, Timothy D. Spector, J. Brent Richards, Terho Lehtimäki, Willem H. Ouwehand, Peter Kraft, Cyrus Cooper, Winfried März, Chris Power, Ruth J. F. Loos, Thomas J. Wang, Marjo-Riitta Järvelin, John C. Whittaker, Aroon D. Hingorani, Elina Hyppönen

PLOS Medicine: published February 5, 2013 | https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pmed.1001383