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May 2019

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Limiting global warming to 1.5 to 2.0°C—A unique and necessary role for health professionals
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Climate change is widely recognized to threaten future population health and wellbeing through rises in air pollution, hazards of extreme weather events, and expansions in the range of vector-borne diseases, for example. Yet acceptance of these risks and mobilization of efforts towards prevention and mitigation have been thus far disappointing. In this month's Editorial, Edward Maibach and colleagues discuss the important role that health professionals should expect to play in advocating for and responding to the threats posed by climate change.

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Editorial

Limiting global warming to 1.5 to 2.0°C—A unique and necessary role for health professionals

Edward W. Maibach, Mona Sarfaty, Mark Mitchell, Rob Gould

PLOS Medicine: published May 14, 2019 | https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pmed.1002804

Perspectives

The healthcare response to human trafficking: A need for globally harmonized ICD codes

Jordan Greenbaum, Hanni Stoklosa

PLOS Medicine: published May 2, 2019 | https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pmed.1002799

Heart failure and healthcare informatics

Mohamed S. Anwar, Alan G. Japp, Nicholas L. Mills

PLOS Medicine: published May 21, 2019 | https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pmed.1002806

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Research to improve differentiated HIV service delivery interventions: Learning to learn as we do

Elvin H. Geng, Charles B. Holmes

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Predicting progression to active tuberculosis: A rate-limiting step on the path to elimination

Ajit Lalvani, Luis C. Berrocal-Almanza, Alice Halliday

PLOS Medicine: published May 24, 2019 | https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pmed.1002814

Policy Forum

The missed potential of CD4 and viral load testing to improve clinical outcomes for people living with HIV in lower-resource settings

Peter D. Ehrenkranz, Solange L. Baptiste, Helen Bygrave, Tom Ellman, Naoko Doi, Anna Grimsrud, Andreas Jahn, Thokozani Kalua, Rose Kolola Nyirenda, Michael O. Odo, Pascale Ondoa, Lara Vojnov, Charles B. Holmes

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Research Articles

Hypertension screening, awareness, treatment, and control in India: A nationally representative cross-sectional study among individuals aged 15 to 49 years

Jonas Prenissl, Jennifer Manne-Goehler, Lindsay M. Jaacks, Dorairaj Prabhakaran, Ashish Awasthi, Anne Christine Bischops, Rifat Atun, Till Bärnighausen, Justine I. Davies, Sebastian Vollmer, Pascal Geldsetzer

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Behavioural intervention for weight loss maintenance versus standard weight advice in adults with obesity: A randomised controlled trial in the UK (NULevel Trial)

Falko F. Sniehotta, Elizabeth H. Evans, Kirby Sainsbury, Ashley Adamson, Alan Batterham, Frauke Becker, Heather Brown, Stephan U. Dombrowski, Dan Jackson, Denise Howell, Karim Ladha, Elaine McColl, Patrick Olivier, Alexander J. Rothman, Alison Steel, Luke Vale, Rute Vieira, Martin White, Peter Wright, Vera Araújo-Soares

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Effects of a clinical medication review focused on personal goals, quality of life, and health problems in older persons with polypharmacy: A randomised controlled trial (DREAMeR-study)

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Individualized decision aid for diverse women with lupus nephritis (IDEA-WON): A randomized controlled trial

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Predicting seizures in pregnant women with epilepsy: Development and external validation of a prognostic model

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Women’s and girls’ experiences of menstruation in low- and middle-income countries: A systematic review and qualitative metasynthesis

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Plasmodium vivax morbidity after radical cure: A cohort study in Central Vietnam

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Diagnostic tests, drug prescriptions, and follow-up patterns after incident heart failure: A cohort study of 93,000 UK patients

Nathalie Conrad, Andrew Judge, Dexter Canoy, Jenny Tran, Johanna O’Donnell, Milad Nazarzadeh, Gholamreza Salimi-Khorshidi, F. D. Richard Hobbs, John G. Cleland, John J. V. McMurray, Kazem Rahimi

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Evaluation of RESPOND, a patient-centred program to prevent falls in older people presenting to the emergency department with a fall: A randomised controlled trial

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Diagnosing growth in low-grade gliomas with and without longitudinal volume measurements: A retrospective observational study

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Malaria morbidity and mortality following introduction of a universal policy of artemisinin-based treatment for malaria in Papua, Indonesia: A longitudinal surveillance study

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Retention and viral suppression in a cohort of HIV patients on antiretroviral therapy in Zambia: Regionally representative estimates using a multistage-sampling-based approach

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