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The Clinical and Public Health Challenges of Diabetes Prevention: A Search for Sustainable Solutions
The economic cost of dealing with the consequences of diabetes is not only a threat to health systems but is a far broader economic and social problem and thus a threat to future long-term sustainable...
Category: PLoS Medicine
by Nicholas J Wareham | On 26 Jul 2016
Inequitable and Ineffective: Exclusion of Mental Health from the Post-2015 Development Agenda
Given that mental health and other non-communicable diseases were conspicuously omitted from the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs), and have only been weakly mentioned in draft Sustainable Developme...
Category: PLoS Medicine
by Alexander C. Tsai | On 30 Jun 2015
Testing and Treating the Missing Millions with Tuberculosis
Political leaders and policy makers need to understand that TB cannot be eliminated without investing more resources. Here, advocacy is critical. There are signs that TB’s time in the spotlight is arr...
Category: PLoS Medicine
by Madhukar Pai | On 24 Mar 2015
Editors’ Wishes for an Illuminated Season and an Open New Year
There are great opportunities for Open Access publications to advance human health, provided the medical research and publishing communities can rise to the challenges that come with them. There are m...
Category: PLoS Medicine
by Plos medicine Editors | On 01 Dec 2013
A Reality Checkpoint for Mobile Health: Three Challenges to Overcome
It has been predicted that by 2017 there will be ‘‘more mobile phones than people’’ on the planet, and currently three-quarters of the world’s population have access to a mobile phone. Amidst the inte...
Category: PLoS Medicine
by PLoS Medicine | On 01 Feb 2013
The Air that We Breathe: Addressing the Risks of Global Urbanization on Health
The Editors examine the lack of correlation between the size of a city and its air quality, noting that the strength of environmental laws and the accountability of the country's government have a gre...
Category: PLoS Medicine
by PLoS Medicine Editors | On 01 Aug 2012
PLoS Medicine Series on Big Food: The Food Industry Is Ripe for Scrutiny
A lay out of the background on the role of Big Food in global health, and offer three competing views of how public health professionals can respond. Subsequent articles include: a comparison of soda...
Category: PLoS Medicine
by Plos medicine Editors | On 30 Jun 2012
Beyond the Numbers: Describing Care at the End of Life
PLoS Medicine, Olav Lindqvist and colleagues describe the range of non pharmacological care giving activities provided by palliative care staff for cancer patients in the last days of life. Their find...
Category: PLoS Medicine
by Plos medicine Editors | On 29 Feb 2012
Poor Diet in Shift Workers: A New Occupational Health Hazard?
As the world of work becomes increasingly 24 hour, shift work will become more common. Shift work has the potential to accelerate the progression of the global epidemic of obesity and diabetes. Ob...
Category: PLoS Medicine
by PLoS Medicine Editors | On 31 Dec 2011
Quality of Maternal Health Care: A Call for Papers for a Maternal Health Task Force–PLoS Collection
The MHTF–PLoS Collection in 2011–12 will focus on quality of maternal health care, as it is clear that such a focus is now a global imperative [9]. The quality of maternal health care is highly va...
Category: PLoS Medicine
by Samantha R Lattof | On 29 Nov 2011
Speed and Convenience aren’t Everything with Diagnostics
Editors reflect on recent research and analysis in PLoS Medicine that highlights the need to fully evaluate rapid and convenient diagnostics. They argue that while rapidly determining the cause of an...
Category: PLoS Medicine
by Plos medicine Editors | On 31 Oct 2011
Why Drug Safety Should Not Take a Back Seat to Efficacy
It is argued that methodological challenges in monitoring the safety of prescription medications should not mean that drug safety be considered less important a topic of study than efficacy. It is als...
Category: PLoS Medicine
by PLoS Medicine Editors | On 30 Sep 2011
Ghostwriting Revisited: New Perspectives but few Solutions in Sight
The editorial is about articles in Plos that speaks about ghost writing. URL:[http://www.plosmedicine.org/article/browseIssue.action].
Category: PLoS Medicine
by Plos medicine Editors | On 02 Aug 2011
Health Care Systems and Conflict: A Fragile State of Affairs
Health care systems are necessary in all countries, the importance of strong health care systems to fragile nations, and the damage done to these systems during conflict, receive less attention t...
Category: PLoS Medicine
by PLoS Medicine Editors | On 29 Jul 2011
Human Trafficking: The Shameful Face of Migration
A new framework for understanding migration as a series of phases, defining categories of people affected by migration and suggesting estimates of the likely size and importance of each group is g...
Category: PLoS Medicine
by PLoS Medicine Editors | On 04 Jun 2011
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