Can routine commercial cord blood banking be scientifically and ethically justified?

abstract：BACKGROUND:Some 5%-15% of all women experience postpartum depression (PPD), which for many is their first psychiatric disorder. The purpose of this study was to estimate the incidence of postpartum affective disorder (AD), duration of treatment, and rate of subsequent postpartum AD and other affective episodes in a nat...

journal_title：PLoS medicine

authors： Rasmussen MH,Strøm M,Wohlfahrt J,Videbech P,Melbye M

更新日期：2017-09-26 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Trachoma is the world's leading cause of infectious blindness. The World Health Organization (WHO) has endorsed the SAFE strategy in order to eliminate blindness due to trachoma by 2020 through "surgery," "antibiotics," "facial cleanliness," and "environmental improvement." While the S and A components have ...

journal_title：PLoS medicine

authors： Stocks ME,Ogden S,Haddad D,Addiss DG,McGuire C,Freeman MC

更新日期：2014-02-25 00:00:00

abstract：:Tom Boyles reflects on differing approaches taken for treating patients with Ebola virus disease in low- and high-resource settings. ...

journal_title：PLoS medicine

authors： Boyles TH

更新日期：2015-07-28 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Hip and knee replacement are some of the most frequently performed surgical procedures in the world. Resurfacing of the hip and unicondylar knee replacement are increasingly being used. There is relatively little evidence on their performance. To study performance of joint replacement in England, we investig...

journal_title：PLoS medicine

authors： Sibanda N,Copley LP,Lewsey JD,Borroff M,Gregg P,MacGregor AJ,Pickford M,Porter M,Tucker K,van der Meulen JH,Steering Committee of the National Joint Registry (NJR) for England and Wales.

更新日期：2008-09-30 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Identifying stage II patients with colorectal cancer (CRC) at higher risk of progression is a clinical priority in order to optimize the advantages of adjuvant chemotherapy while avoiding unnecessary toxicity. Recently, the intensity and the quality of the host immune response in the tumor microenvironment h...

journal_title：PLoS medicine

authors： Sanz-Pamplona R,Melas M,Maoz A,Schmit SL,Rennert H,Lejbkowicz F,Greenson JK,Sanjuan X,Lopez-Zambrano M,Alonso MH,Qu C,McDonnell KJ,Idos GE,Vignali M,Emerson R,Fields P,Guinó E,Santos C,Salazar R,Robins HS,Rennert

更新日期：2020-09-24 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Escalation in the global rates of labour interventions, particularly cesarean section and oxytocin augmentation, has renewed interest in a better understanding of natural labour progression. Methodological advancements in statistical and computational techniques addressing the limitations of pioneer studies ...

journal_title：PLoS medicine

authors： Oladapo OT,Souza JP,Fawole B,Mugerwa K,Perdoná G,Alves D,Souza H,Reis R,Oliveira-Ciabati L,Maiorano A,Akintan A,Alu FE,Oyeneyin L,Adebayo A,Byamugisha J,Nakalembe M,Idris HA,Okike O,Althabe F,Hundley V,Donnay F,

更新日期：2018-01-16 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Artemisinin-based combination therapy (ACT) is recommended for uncomplicated Plasmodium vivax malaria in areas of emerging chloroquine resistance. We undertook a systematic review and individual patient data meta-analysis to compare the efficacies of dihydroartemisinin-piperaquine (DP) and artemether-lumefan...

journal_title：PLoS medicine

authors： Commons RJ,Simpson JA,Thriemer K,Abreha T,Adam I,Anstey NM,Assefa A,Awab GR,Baird JK,Barber BE,Chu CS,Dahal P,Daher A,Davis TME,Dondorp AM,Grigg MJ,Humphreys GS,Hwang J,Karunajeewa H,Laman M,Lidia K,Moore BR,M

更新日期：2019-10-04 00:00:00

abstract：:This month in PLOS Medicine we launched a Special Issue on New Tools and Strategies for Tuberculosis Diagnosis, Care, and Elimination. In this issue's Editorial, the Guest Editors Claudia Denkinger, Richard Chaisson, and Mark Hatherill highlight some of the research that will publish and how these studies focusing on ...

journal_title：PLoS medicine

authors： Hatherill M,Chaisson RE,Denkinger CM

更新日期：2019-04-30 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Point-of-care CD4 tests at HIV diagnosis could improve linkage to care in resource-limited settings. Our objective is to evaluate the clinical and economic impact of point-of-care CD4 tests compared to laboratory-based tests in Mozambique. METHODS AND FINDINGS:We use a validated model of HIV testing, linkag...

journal_title：PLoS medicine

authors： Hyle EP,Jani IV,Lehe J,Su AE,Wood R,Quevedo J,Losina E,Bassett IV,Pei PP,Paltiel AD,Resch S,Freedberg KA,Peter T,Walensky RP

更新日期：2014-09-16 00:00:00

abstract：:Kwonjune Seung and colleagues describe the Eugene Bell Foundation's experience of treating MDR-TB in North Korea. ...

journal_title：PLoS medicine

authors： Seung KJ,Franke M,Linton SW

更新日期：2016-08-02 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Whole genome sequencing provides better delineation of transmission clusters in Mycobacterium tuberculosis than traditional methods. However, its ability to reveal individual transmission links within clusters is limited. Here, we used a 2-step approach based on Bayesian transmission reconstruction to (1) id...

journal_title：PLoS medicine

authors： Xu Y,Cancino-Muñoz I,Torres-Puente M,Villamayor LM,Borrás R,Borrás-Máñez M,Bosque M,Camarena JJ,Colomer-Roig E,Colomina J,Escribano I,Esparcia-Rodríguez O,Gil-Brusola A,Gimeno C,Gimeno-Gascón A,Gomila-Sard B,González-Gran

更新日期：2019-10-31 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Four studies previously indicated that the effect of malaria infection during pregnancy on the risk of low birthweight (LBW; <2,500 g) may depend upon maternal nutritional status. We investigated this dependence further using a large, diverse study population. METHODS AND FINDINGS:We evaluated the interacti...

journal_title：PLoS medicine

authors： Cates JE,Unger HW,Briand V,Fievet N,Valea I,Tinto H,D'Alessandro U,Landis SH,Adu-Afarwuah S,Dewey KG,Ter Kuile FO,Desai M,Dellicour S,Ouma P,Gutman J,Oneko M,Slutsker L,Terlouw DJ,Kariuki S,Ayisi J,Madanitsa M,M

更新日期：2017-08-08 00:00:00

abstract：:In this month's editorial, PLOS Medicine Editorial Board member Rachel Jewkes identifies challenges that the violence prevention research community faces in substantially reducing violence against women and girls over the next 30 years. Please see later in the article for the Editors' Summary. ...

journal_title：PLoS medicine

authors： Jewkes R

更新日期：2014-11-25 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Meta-analyses of antidepressant medications have reported only modest benefits over placebo treatment, and when unpublished trial data are included, the benefit falls below accepted criteria for clinical significance. Yet, the efficacy of the antidepressants may also depend on the severity of initial depress...

journal_title：PLoS medicine

authors： Kirsch I,Deacon BJ,Huedo-Medina TB,Scoboria A,Moore TJ,Johnson BT

更新日期：2008-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Tissue advanced glycation end product (AGE) accumulation has been proposed as a marker of cumulative metabolic stress that can be assessed noninvasively by measurement of skin autofluorescence (SAF). In persons on haemodialysis, SAF is an independent risk factor for cardiovascular events (CVEs) and all-cause...

journal_title：PLoS medicine

authors： Shardlow A,McIntyre NJ,Kolhe NV,Nellums LB,Fluck RJ,McIntyre CW,Taal MW

更新日期：2020-07-13 00:00:00

abstract：:Antimalarial drugs will be essential tools at all stages of malaria elimination along the path towards eradication, including the early control or "attack" phase to drive down transmission and the later stages of maintaining interruption of transmission, preventing reintroduction of malaria, and eliminating the last r...

journal_title：PLoS medicine

authors： malERA Consultative Group on Drugs.

更新日期：2011-01-25 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Patients with multimorbidities have the greatest healthcare needs and generate the highest expenditure in the health system. There is an increasing focus on identifying specific disease combinations for addressing poor outcomes. Existing research has identified a small number of prevalent "clusters" in the g...

journal_title：PLoS medicine

authors： Stokes J,Guthrie B,Mercer SW,Rice N,Sutton M

更新日期：2021-01-13 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:The relationship between population trends in delaying childbirth and rising rates of primary cesarean delivery is unclear. The aims of the present study were (1) to characterize the association between maternal age and the outcome of labor, (2) to determine the proportion of the increase in primary cesarean...

journal_title：PLoS medicine

authors： Smith GC,Cordeaux Y,White IR,Pasupathy D,Missfelder-Lobos H,Pell JP,Charnock-Jones DS,Fleming M

更新日期：2008-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Clinical trials of interventions designed to prevent severe falciparum malaria in children require a clear endpoint. The internationally accepted definition of severe malaria is sensitive, and appropriate for clinical purposes. However, this definition includes individuals with severe nonmalarial disease and...

journal_title：PLoS medicine

authors： Bejon P,Berkley JA,Mwangi T,Ogada E,Mwangi I,Maitland K,Williams T,Scott JA,English M,Lowe BS,Peshu N,Newton CR,Marsh K

更新日期：2007-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In a Perspective, David Peiris and Dorairaj Prabhakaran discuss implications and challenges of cardiovascular disease risk assessments in the population of India. ...

journal_title：PLoS medicine

authors： Peiris D,Prabhakaran D

更新日期：2018-06-19 00:00:00

abstract：:In a Policy Forum, Peter Hotez and colleagues discuss vaccination exemptions in US states and possible consequences for infectious disease outbreaks. ...

journal_title：PLoS medicine

authors： Olive JK,Hotez PJ,Damania A,Nolan MS

更新日期：2018-06-12 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Bilharzia is one of the major parasitic infections affecting the public health and socioeconomic circumstances in (sub) tropical areas. Its causative agents are schistosomes. Since these worms remain in their host for decades, they have developed mechanisms to evade or resist the immune system. Like several ...

journal_title：PLoS medicine

authors： Sprong H,Suchanek M,van Dijk SM,van Remoortere A,Klumperman J,Avram D,van der Linden J,Leusen JH,van Hellemond JJ,Thiele C

更新日期：2006-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Aaron Kesselheim and colleagues examine orphan-designated drugs approved between 2009 and 2015 in the United States. ...

journal_title：PLoS medicine

authors： Kesselheim AS,Treasure CL,Joffe S

更新日期：2017-01-03 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Nocturnal hypoglycemia frequently occurs in patients with type 1 diabetes mellitus (T1DM). It can be fatal and is believed to promote the development of the hypoglycemia-unawareness syndrome. Whether hypoglycemia normally provokes awakening from sleep in individuals who do not have diabetes, and whether this...

journal_title：PLoS medicine

authors： Schultes B,Jauch-Chara K,Gais S,Hallschmid M,Reiprich E,Kern W,Oltmanns KM,Peters A,Fehm HL,Born J

更新日期：2007-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Assessing the mortality impact of the 2009 influenza A H1N1 virus (H1N1pdm09) is essential for optimizing public health responses to future pandemics. The World Health Organization reported 18,631 laboratory-confirmed pandemic deaths, but the total pandemic mortality burden was substantially higher. We estim...

journal_title：PLoS medicine

authors： Simonsen L,Spreeuwenberg P,Lustig R,Taylor RJ,Fleming DM,Kroneman M,Van Kerkhove MD,Mounts AW,Paget WJ,GLaMOR Collaborating Teams.

更新日期：2013-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Ovarian cancer kills approximately 15,000 women in the United States every year, and more than 140,000 women worldwide. Most deaths from ovarian cancer are caused by tumors of the serous histological type, which are rarely diagnosed before the cancer has spread. Rational design of a potentially life-saving e...

journal_title：PLoS medicine

authors： Brown PO,Palmer C

更新日期：2009-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:It is unclear whether an upper gastrointestinal bleed is an isolated gastrointestinal event or an indicator of a deterioration in a patient's overall health status. Therefore, we investigated the excess causes of death in individuals after a non-variceal bleed compared with deaths in a matched sample of the ...

journal_title：PLoS medicine

authors： Crooks CJ,Card TR,West J

更新日期：2013-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Harald Schmidt and Anne Barnhill highlight the need to ensure equity in the proposed Sustainable Development Goals. ...

journal_title：PLoS medicine

authors： Schmidt H,Barnhill A

更新日期：2015-09-08 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Many mathematical models have investigated the impact of expanding access to antiretroviral therapy (ART) on new HIV infections. Comparing results and conclusions across models is challenging because models have addressed slightly different questions and have reported different outcome metrics. This study co...

journal_title：PLoS medicine

authors： Eaton JW,Johnson LF,Salomon JA,Bärnighausen T,Bendavid E,Bershteyn A,Bloom DE,Cambiano V,Fraser C,Hontelez JA,Humair S,Klein DJ,Long EF,Phillips AN,Pretorius C,Stover J,Wenger EA,Williams BG,Hallett TB

更新日期：2012-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:In many European countries, medicines promotion is governed by voluntary codes of practice administered by the pharmaceutical industry under its own system of self-regulation. Involvement of industry organizations in policing promotion has been proposed to deter illicit conduct, but few detailed studies on s...

journal_title：PLoS medicine

authors： Zetterqvist AV,Merlo J,Mulinari S

更新日期：2015-02-17 00:00:00