October 21, 2024
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10/25/2024
Research Article
Rongtao Lai and team estimate hepatocellular carcinoma incidence stratified by a combination of age, sex, cirrhosis, diabetes, and other comorbidities as derived from data of ~750,000 real-world patients with steatotic liver disease.
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Browse Issues 2004 – 2024
11/05/2024
Research Article
Peter MacPherson and colleagues analyze public health records and demographics data using an interrupted time series approach to explore the effect of the 1957 Glasgow mass chest X-ray campaign for tuberculosis case finding.
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11/07/2024
Research Article
Michael R. Whitehouse, Rita Patel and colleagues analyse data from the UK’s National Joint Registry to assess the risk of revision (i.e. re-operation following primary procedure) in patients who have undergone a total hip replacement, according to the materials used in the joint.
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10/23/2024
Research Article
Leveraging registry data, Peter Jepsen and colleagues explore the risk of adverse health outcomes among offspring and associations with diagnosis of alcohol-related liver disease of one or both parents and parents' education level.
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10/24/2024
Research Article
Aurélia Lépine and team assess the impact of health insurance as a means of protecting women who engage in commercial sex or transactional sex from economic shocks to prevent HIV infection in Yaoundé, Cameroon.
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10/24/2024
Perspective
Jesse Heitner, Valerian Mwenda and colleagues discuss how the POWER study by Aurélia Lépine and team has demonstrated that addressing healthcare costs among adolescent girls and young women has the potential to reduce HIV incidence.
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10/18/2024
Research Article
By Amir Sariaslan and colleagues.
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10/31/2024
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By Steven Perrin and colleagues.
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10/11/2024
Research Article
By Joe D. Piper and colleagues.
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10/08/2024
Research Article
By James D. Munday and colleagues.
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In this Editorial, Guest Editors Timothy R. Walsh, Ana C. Gales, Ramanan Laxminarayan, and our PLOS Medicine Editor Philippa C. Dodd discuss the Special Issue dedicated to Antimicrobial resistance and emphasize the urgent threat of AMR.
Ruchita Balasubramanian and colleagues, estimate the incidence of hospital-associated infections resistant to antibiotics in 195 countries using point prevalence survey data.
James Neal Russell and colleagues explore antibiotic use and mortality prediction in hospitalised neonates and infants with sepsis.
Silvia Bertagnolio, Amitabh Bipin Suthar, Olga Tosas and Kitty Van Weezenbeek discuss surveillance of antimicrobial resistance, the existing limitations and the implications this has on accurate determination of incidence.
Yin Mo and colleagues investigate implications of antibiotic duration on antibiotic resistance in hospitals.
In this Special Issue, we present a fascinating array of research papers providing insights into various facets of mental health during the pandemic.
This collection of research articles highlights the multi-faceted challenges imposed by drug-resistant bacteria, the consequences for health and economics, and interventions that could lessen the burden.
In this Collection, PLOS Medicine presents high-quality translational research and clinical studies on advances in early cancer detection.
This Special Issue brings together the latest research on child and adolescent health, including strategies to monitor and combat child mortality from birth through adolescence, and environmental impacts on child health and mortality.
This 2019 Special Issue highlights the importance of nutrition for maternal and child health.
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