January 14, 2019
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01/15/2019
Research Article
Using Mendelian Randomisation methods, Ron Do & colleagues reveal no causal association between serum urate levels and chronic kidney disease risk, contrary to previous reports. Read the Author Summary.
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01/15/2019
Essay
In an Essay, Mark Tenforde and colleagues advocate continued provision of baseline CD4 cell count testing in HIV care in low- and middle-income countries.
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01/08/2019
Research Article
Tony Blakely & colleagues use national health data for New Zealand to estimate the costs of individual diseases as well as whether multiple morbidities add an additional cost above the sum of the expected costs of the individual diseases. Read the Author Summary.
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01/08/2019
Research Article
Hans Bisgaard & colleagues analyze cohort data for evidence as to whether symptomatic asthma is the cause or consequence of early-life airway obstruction and bronchial hyperreactivity. Read the Author Summary.
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01/03/2019
Research Article
Using mendelian randomization approaches, Paul Brennan & colleagues reveal an association between 12 obesity-related factors, including insulin and the development of renal cell carcinoma. Read the Author Summary.
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12/31/2018
Editorial
Machine Learning Special Issue Guest Editors Suchi Saria, Atul Butte, and Aziz Sheikh cut through the hyperbole with an accessible and accurate portrayal of the forefront of machine learning in clinical translation.
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01/02/2019
Research Article
Augustine Choko & colleagues. Read the Author Summary.
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12/31/2018
Research Article
Morgan Levine & colleagues. Read the Author Summary.
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12/26/2018
Research Article
Andrea Cipriani & colleagues. Read the Author Summary.
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12/21/2018
Policy Forum
In a Policy Forum, Joseph Amon and colleagues discuss human rights indicators for tracking progress towards ending the HIV epidemic.
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A PLOS collection devoted to advances in health and biomedicine made possible by the statistical modeling techniques known as machine learning.
Effy Vayena & colleagues argue ML in medicine must offer data protection, transparency, & accountability. Check out the Machine Learning in Health and Biomedicine special issue.
Machine learning in medicine published in PLOS ONE; by Siamak Yousefi & colleagues.
Published in PLOS Computational Biology for the Machine Learning collection; Jun Li & colleagues.
From PLOS ONE; Alexander Aushev & colleagues.
PLOS Medicine's special issue devoted to the health impacts of climate change, Guest Edited by Jonathan Patz and Madeleine Thomson.
Cardiovascular disease (CVD) is the number one cause of death and disability globally. Read the research in our CVD collection.
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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