February 11, 2019
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02/05/2019
Research Article
Sally Wyke & colleagues report that the EuroFIT trial, designed to improve fitness in men, does improve fitness, weight and cardiometabolic biomarkers, but not sedentary time, at 12 months. Read the Author Summary.
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02/05/2019
Research Article
Ian Wong & co-workers studied UK electronic primary care records to assess the hypothesis, derived from animal studies, that the antidepressant trazodone might be neuroprotective in early-stage dementia. Read the Author Summary.
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02/05/2019
Research Article
Xiaolin Wei & colleagues report long-term outcomes from their trial, which aimed to reduce prescribing of antibiotics in Chinese primary care to children with upper respiratory tract infections. Read the Author Summary.
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02/04/2019
Research Article
M. Arfan Ikram & colleagues assess the burden and preventability of co-occurring non-communicable diseases in the population-based Rotterdam Study. Read the Author Summary.
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01/31/2019
Research Article
In a Mendelian randomization study, Ashley Budu-Aggrey & co-workers study the influence of body mass index on psoriasis. Read the Author Summary.
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02/04/2019
Collection Review
In a Collection Review, Richard Hayes & colleagues discuss metrics for assessing progress in control of the HIV/AIDS epidemic in the context of prior disease control programmes. Part of the Epidemiological metrics for the HIV epidemic collection.
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02/05/2019
PLOS Collections
Extraordinary progress has been made to halt & reverse the spread of HIV. However, there is still a long way to go, as called for in the third Sustainable Development Goal. This collection reviews metrics to understand progress in diverse HIV epidemics.
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01/29/2019
Editorial
In an Editorial, Ligia Kiss & Cathy Zimmerman discuss the need for research on the prevention of human trafficking and mitigation of its effects.
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01/29/2019
Research Article
James Daniel O'Leary & colleagues. Read the Perspective.
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01/24/2019
Research Article
Zachary Wagner & colleagues. Read the Author Summary.
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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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