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January 2014

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A call for papers on the health needs of pre-adolescent children
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With international efforts to attain UN Millennium Development Goal 4, which emphasizes reducing early childhood mortality, many more young children will now live beyond their 5th birthday and so enter into an age group that currently receives little notice within global health policy.

In the lead-up to PLOS Medicine's 10 year anniversary in October this year, in their first editorial of 2014, the PLOS Medicine Editors highlight the health needs of a group that deserves more attention—pre-adolescent children, including 10 year olds—by issuing a call for papers on research that address the health needs of this group.

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Editorial

Soon PLOS Medicine Will Be Ten: A Call for Papers on the Health of Pre-adolescent Children

The PLOS Medicine Editors

PLOS Medicine: published January 28, 2014 | https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pmed.1001597

Perspectives

Taxes on Sugar-Sweetened Beverages to Curb Future Obesity and Diabetes Epidemics

Tony Blakely, Nick Wilson, Bill Kaye-Blake

PLOS Medicine: published January 7, 2014 | https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pmed.1001583

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Cervical Cancer Screening in Older Women: New Evidence and Knowledge Gaps

Anne F. Rositch, Michelle I. Silver, Patti E. Gravitt

PLOS Medicine: published January 14, 2014 | https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pmed.1001586

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Home Blood Pressure Monitoring: New Evidence for an Expanded Role

Mark Caulfield

PLOS Medicine: published January 21, 2014 | https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pmed.1001592

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The Failure of Screening and Treating as a Malaria Elimination Strategy

Lorenz von Seidlein

PLOS Medicine: published January 28, 2014 | https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pmed.1001595

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Policy Forums

Managing Incidental Genomic Findings in Clinical Trials: Fulfillment of the Principle of Justice

Rafael Dal-Ré, Nicholas Katsanis, Sara Katsanis, Lisa S. Parker, Carmen Ayuso

PLOS Medicine: published January 14, 2014 | https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pmed.1001584

Scale-up of Malaria Rapid Diagnostic Tests and Artemisinin-Based Combination Therapy: Challenges and Perspectives in Sub-Saharan Africa

Guido J. H. Bastiaens, Teun Bousema, Toby Leslie

PLOS Medicine: published January 21, 2014 | https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pmed.1001590

Guidelines and Guidance

Developing a Sustainable Nutrition Research Agenda in Sub-Saharan Africa—Findings from the SUNRAY Project

Carl Lachat, Eunice Nago, Dominique Roberfroid, Michelle Holdsworth, Karlien Smit, Joyce Kinabo, Wim Pinxten, Annamarie Kruger, Patrick Kolsteren

PLOS Medicine: published January 28, 2014 | https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pmed.1001593

Research Articles

Associations between Intimate Partner Violence and Termination of Pregnancy: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis

Megan Hall, Lucy C. Chappell, Bethany L. Parnell, Paul T. Seed, Susan Bewley

PLOS Medicine: published January 7, 2014 | https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pmed.1001581

Averting Obesity and Type 2 Diabetes in India through Sugar-Sweetened Beverage Taxation: An Economic-Epidemiologic Modeling Study

Sanjay Basu, Sukumar Vellakkal, Sutapa Agrawal, David Stuckler, Barry Popkin, Shah Ebrahim

PLOS Medicine: published January 7, 2014 | https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pmed.1001582

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Cervical Screening at Age 50–64 Years and the Risk of Cervical Cancer at Age 65 Years and Older: Population-Based Case Control Study

Alejandra Castañón, Rebecca Landy, Jack Cuzick, Peter Sasieni

PLOS Medicine: published January 14, 2014 | https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pmed.1001585

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Muscle-Strengthening and Conditioning Activities and Risk of Type 2 Diabetes: A Prospective Study in Two Cohorts of US Women

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A Risk Prediction Model for the Assessment and Triage of Women with Hypertensive Disorders of Pregnancy in Low-Resourced Settings: The miniPIERS (Pre-eclampsia Integrated Estimate of RiSk) Multi-country Prospective Cohort Study

Beth A. Payne, Jennifer A. Hutcheon, J. Mark Ansermino, David R. Hall, Zulfiqar A. Bhutta, Shereen Z. Bhutta, Christine Biryabarema, William A. Grobman, Henk Groen, Farizah Haniff, Jing Li, Laura A. Magee, Mario Merialdi, Annettee Nakimuli, Ziguang Qu, Rozina Sikandar, Nelson Sass, Diane Sawchuck, D. Wilhelm Steyn, Mariana Widmer, Jian Zhou, Peter von Dadelszen, for the miniPIERS Study Working Group

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Risk Stratification by Self-Measured Home Blood Pressure across Categories of Conventional Blood Pressure: A Participant-Level Meta-Analysis

Kei Asayama, Lutgarde Thijs, Jana Brguljan-Hitij, Teemu J. Niiranen, Atsushi Hozawa, José Boggia, Lucas S. Aparicio, Azusa Hara, Jouni K. Johansson, Takayoshi Ohkubo, Christophe Tzourio, George S. Stergiou, Edgardo Sandoya, Ichiro Tsuji, Antti M. Jula, Yutaka Imai, Jan A. Staessen, for the International Database of Home Blood Pressure in Relation to Cardiovascular Outcome (IDHOCO) investigators

PLOS Medicine: published January 21, 2014 | https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pmed.1001591

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Impact of Intermittent Screening and Treatment for Malaria among School Children in Kenya: A Cluster Randomised Trial

Katherine E. Halliday, George Okello, Elizabeth L. Turner, Kiambo Njagi, Carlos Mcharo, Juddy Kengo, Elizabeth Allen, Margaret M. Dubeck, Matthew C. H. Jukes, Simon J. Brooker

PLOS Medicine: published January 28, 2014 | https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pmed.1001594

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Preterm Birth and Childhood Wheezing Disorders: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis

Jasper V. Been, Marlies J. Lugtenberg, Eline Smets, Constant P. van Schayck, Boris W. Kramer, Monique Mommers, Aziz Sheikh

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