November 6, 2018
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11/06/2018
Research Article
Eric Oermann and colleagues ask whether DL-based models for pneumonia detection perform well in external validation and probe the role of hospital system–specific confounding. Read the Author Summary or see the rest of the special issue on Machine Learning in Health and Biomedicine.
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11/06/2018
Perspective
Effy Vayena and colleagues argue that machine learning in medicine must offer data protection, algorithmic transparency, and accountability to earn the trust of patients and clinicians. Check out the Machine Learning in Health and Biomedicine special issue.
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11/01/2018
Research Article
Stig Bojesen and colleagues highlight the increased risk of future infection or death for those with lymphopenia using data from a large Danish cohort. Read the Author Summary.
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10/31/2018
Research Article
Roy Burstein & colleagues present & test their method for estimating age-specific child mortality using the summary birth history data that are broadly available from household surveys & censuses. Read the Author Summary.
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10/30/2018
Editorial
Hannah Leslie and colleagues of the High-Quality Health Commission discuss the findings from their report that detail improvements needed to prevent declines in health as scope and reach of health systems increase.
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10/29/2018
Research Article
Carlos S Grijalva-Eternod and colleagues present results for acute malnutrition, dietary diversity, and other nutrition-related outcomes from their non-randomised trial of a CBI for displaced families with young children. Read the Author Summary.
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10/29/2018
Research ARticle
Regina Ensenauer & colleagues study relationships between perinatal dysglycemia in obese mothers & later BMI in their children. Read the Author Summary.
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10/25/2018
Perspective
Peter Godfrey-Faussett and colleagues present six epidemiological metrics for tracking progress in reducing the public health threat of HIV.
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10/24/2018
Policy Forum
Irva Hertz-Picciotto & colleagues review scientific evidence linking pesticides to cognitive & neurological deficits in children.
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10/22/2018
Research ARticle
Jennifer Lord & colleagues model how climate change will affect Tsetse fly numbers in the Zambezi Valley. Read the Author Summary or the rest of the Climate Change collection.
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PLOS Medicine's special issue devoted to the health impacts of climate change, Guest Edited by Jonathan Patz and Madeleine Thomson.
A global forum for research responding to the impacts of climate change.
In an Editorial, guest editors Jonathan Patz & Madeleine Thompson summarize key issues & describe the significance of research studies in the Collection.
Yuming Guo & coll. present a modelling study in which climate change-associated mortality is predicted in a large number of countries. Read the Author Summary.
Jose Guillermo Cedeño Laurent & coll. document the detrimental effects of heatwaves on cognition. Read the Author Summary.
Cardiovascular disease (CVD) is the number one cause of death and disability globally. Read the research in our CVD collection.
The malERA Refresh special collection comprises seven papers that address the scientific achievements and the current challenges in different fields.
This PLOS collection offers evidence and expert commentary to urge health professionals to treat trafficking as a global health determinant.
HIV infection continues to pose a critical risk to health in many countries. Read the research in our special issue and collection.
This collection, published in collaboration with WHO, focuses on global policy and systems aiming to achieve control of STIs and mitigation of their adverse effects on health.
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