Progress in Medicine: Experts Take Stock

The PLOS Medicine Editors, Andrew Beck, Ewan Birney, Manuel Graeber, James Tumwine, Phillipa Hay, Hyeong Sik Ahn, Anushka Patel, Philipp du Cros, Lorenz von Seidlein, Nick Wareham, Nicola Low

PLOS Medicine: published December 29, 2015 | https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pmed.1001933

Police Killings and Police Deaths Are Public Health Data and Can Be Counted

Nancy Krieger, Jarvis T. Chen, Pamela D. Waterman, Mathew V. Kiang, Justin Feldman

PLOS Medicine: published December 8, 2015 | https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pmed.1001915

A Successful Failure: Missing the MDG4 Target for Under-Five Mortality in South Africa

Peter Byass, Chodziwadziwa W. Kabudula, Paul Mee, Sizzy Ngobeni, Bernard Silaule, F. Xavier Gómez-Olivé, Mark A. Collinson, Aviva Tugendhaft, Ryan G. Wagner, Rhian Twine, Karen Hofman, Stephen M. Tollman, Kathleen Kahn

PLOS Medicine: published December 22, 2015 | https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pmed.1001926

Resuscitating the Dying Autopsy

Quique Bassat, Paola Castillo, Pedro L. Alonso, Jaume Ordi, Clara Menéndez

PLOS Medicine: published January 12, 2016 | https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pmed.1001927

The Ebola Vaccine, Iatrogenic Injuries, and Legal Liability

Amir Attaran, Kumanan Wilson

PLOS Medicine: published December 1, 2015 | https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pmed.1001911

Moving Beyond “Food Deserts”: Reorienting United States Policies to Reduce Disparities in Diet Quality

Jason P. Block, S. V. Subramanian

PLOS Medicine: published December 8, 2015 | https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pmed.1001914

Diversity in Clinical and Biomedical Research: A Promise Yet to Be Fulfilled

Sam S. Oh, Joshua Galanter, Neeta Thakur, Maria Pino-Yanes, Nicolas E. Barcelo, Marquitta J. White, Danielle M. de Bruin, Ruth M. Greenblatt, Kirsten Bibbins-Domingo, Alan H. B. Wu, Luisa N. Borrell, Chris Gunter, Neil R. Powe, Esteban G. Burchard

PLOS Medicine: published December 15, 2015 | https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pmed.1001918

Public Health and International Partnerships in the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea

John Grundy, Beverley-Ann Biggs, David B. Hipgrave

PLOS Medicine: published December 29, 2015 | https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pmed.1001929

World Health Organization Global Estimates and Regional Comparisons of the Burden of Foodborne Disease in 2010

Arie H. Havelaar, Martyn D. Kirk, Paul R. Torgerson, Herman J. Gibb, Tine Hald, Robin J. Lake, Nicolas Praet, David C. Bellinger, Nilanthi R. de Silva, Neyla Gargouri, Niko Speybroeck, Amy Cawthorne, Colin Mathers, Claudia Stein, Frederick J. Angulo, Brecht Devleesschauwer, on behalf of World Health Organization Foodborne Disease Burden Epidemiology Reference Group

PLOS Medicine: published December 3, 2015 | https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pmed.1001923

Inequalities in Alcohol-Related Mortality in 17 European Countries: A Retrospective Analysis of Mortality Registers

Johan P. Mackenbach, Ivana Kulhánová, Matthias Bopp, Carme Borrell, Patrick Deboosere, Katalin Kovács, Caspar W. N. Looman, Mall Leinsalu, Pia Mäkelä, Pekka Martikainen, Gwenn Menvielle, Maica Rodríguez-Sanz, Jitka Rychtaříková, Rianne de Gelder

PLOS Medicine: published December 1, 2015 | https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pmed.1001909

Use of Viremia to Evaluate the Baseline Case Fatality Ratio of Ebola Virus Disease and Inform Treatment Studies: A Retrospective Cohort Study

Oumar Faye, Alessio Andronico, Ousmane Faye, Henrik Salje, Pierre-Yves Boëlle, N’Faly Magassouba, Elhadj Ibrahima Bah, Lamine Koivogui, Boubacar Diallo, Alpha Amadou Diallo, Sakoba Keita, Mandy Kader Konde, Robert Fowler, Gamou Fall, Simon Cauchemez, Amadou Alpha Sall

PLOS Medicine: published December 1, 2015 | https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pmed.1001908

World Health Organization Estimates of the Global and Regional Disease Burden of 11 Foodborne Parasitic Diseases, 2010: A Data Synthesis

Paul R. Torgerson, Brecht Devleesschauwer, Nicolas Praet, Niko Speybroeck, Arve Lee Willingham, Fumiko Kasuga, Mohammad B. Rokni, Xiao-Nong Zhou, Eric M. Fèvre, Banchob Sripa, Neyla Gargouri, Thomas Fürst, Christine M. Budke, Hélène Carabin, Martyn D. Kirk, Frederick J. Angulo, Arie Havelaar, Nilanthi de Silva

PLOS Medicine: published December 3, 2015 | https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pmed.1001920

World Health Organization Estimates of the Global and Regional Disease Burden of 22 Foodborne Bacterial, Protozoal, and Viral Diseases, 2010: A Data Synthesis

Martyn D. Kirk, Sara M. Pires, Robert E. Black, Marisa Caipo, John A. Crump, Brecht Devleesschauwer, Dörte Döpfer, Aamir Fazil, Christa L. Fischer-Walker, Tine Hald, Aron J. Hall, Karen H. Keddy, Robin J. Lake, Claudio F. Lanata, Paul R. Torgerson, Arie H. Havelaar, Frederick J. Angulo

PLOS Medicine: published December 3, 2015 | https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pmed.1001921

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Risks and Benefits of Nalmefene in the Treatment of Adult Alcohol Dependence: A Systematic Literature Review and Meta-Analysis of Published and Unpublished Double-Blind Randomized Controlled Trials

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10-y Risks of Death and Emergency Re-admission in Adolescents Hospitalised with Violent, Drug- or Alcohol-Related, or Self-Inflicted Injury: A Population-Based Cohort Study

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