Keeping it real: A journal editor in clinic.

abstract：BACKGROUND:The association between fetal exposure to major radiodiagnostic testing in pregnancy-computed tomography (CT) and radionuclide imaging-and the risk of childhood cancer is not established. METHODS AND FINDINGS:We completed a population-based study of 1.8 million maternal-child pairs in the province of Ontari...

journal_title：PLoS medicine

authors： Ray JG,Schull MJ,Urquia ML,You JJ,Guttmann A,Vermeulen MJ

更新日期：2010-09-07 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Skin atrophy is a common manifestation of aging and is frequently accompanied by ulceration and delayed wound healing. With an increasingly aging patient population, management of skin atrophy is becoming a major challenge in the clinic, particularly in light of the fact that there are no effective therapeut...

journal_title：PLoS medicine

authors： Kaya G,Tran C,Sorg O,Hotz R,Grand D,Carraux P,Didierjean L,Stamenkovic I,Saurat JH

更新日期：2006-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:TKM-130803, a small interfering RNA lipid nanoparticle product, has been developed for the treatment of Ebola virus disease (EVD), but its efficacy and safety in humans has not been evaluated. METHODS AND FINDINGS:In this single-arm phase 2 trial, adults with laboratory-confirmed EVD received 0.3 mg/kg of T...

journal_title：PLoS medicine

authors： Dunning J,Sahr F,Rojek A,Gannon F,Carson G,Idriss B,Massaquoi T,Gandi R,Joseph S,Osman HK,Brooks TJ,Simpson AJ,Goodfellow I,Thorne L,Arias A,Merson L,Castle L,Howell-Jones R,Pardinaz-Solis R,Hope-Gill B,Ferri M,

更新日期：2016-04-19 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Quantitative estimation of the extent to which the immune system's protective effect against one herpes simplex virus type 2 (HSV-2) infection protects against infection with additional HSV-2 strains is important for understanding the potential for HSV-2 vaccine development. Using viral genotyping, we estima...

journal_title：PLoS medicine

authors： Johnston C,Magaret A,Roychoudhury P,Greninger AL,Reeves D,Schiffer J,Jerome KR,Sather C,Diem K,Lingappa JR,Celum C,Koelle DM,Wald A

更新日期：2017-12-27 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Introduction of pneumococcal conjugate vaccines (PCVs) of limited valency is justified in Africa by the high burden of pneumococcal disease. Long-term beneficial effects of PCVs may be countered by serotype replacement. We aimed to determine the impact of PCV-7 vaccination on pneumococcal carriage in rural G...

journal_title：PLoS medicine

authors： Roca A,Hill PC,Townend J,Egere U,Antonio M,Bojang A,Akisanya A,Litchfield T,Nsekpong DE,Oluwalana C,Howie SR,Greenwood B,Adegbola RA

更新日期：2011-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:A nonsputum blood test capable of predicting progression of healthy individuals to active tuberculosis (TB) before clinical symptoms manifest would allow targeted treatment to curb transmission. We aimed to develop a proteomic biomarker of risk of TB progression for ultimate translation into a point-of-care ...

journal_title：PLoS medicine

authors： Penn-Nicholson A,Hraha T,Thompson EG,Sterling D,Mbandi SK,Wall KM,Fisher M,Suliman S,Shankar S,Hanekom WA,Janjic N,Hatherill M,Kaufmann SHE,Sutherland J,Walzl G,De Groote MA,Ochsner U,Zak DE,Scriba TJ,ACS and GC6–74

更新日期：2019-04-16 00:00:00

abstract：:In a Perspective, Lynn Morris and Nonhlanhla Mkhize discuss the prospects for broadly neutralizing antibodies to be used in preventing HIV infection. ...

journal_title：PLoS medicine

authors： Morris L,Mkhize NN

更新日期：2017-11-14 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:Toll-like receptors (TLRs) are essential in host defense against pathogens by virtue of their capacity to detect microbes and initiate the immune response. TLR2 is seen as the most important receptor for gram-positive bacteria, while TLR4 is regarded as the gram-negative TLR. Melioidosis is a severe infectio...

journal_title：PLoS medicine

authors： Wiersinga WJ,Wieland CW,Dessing MC,Chantratita N,Cheng AC,Limmathurotsakul D,Chierakul W,Leendertse M,Florquin S,de Vos AF,White N,Dondorp AM,Day NP,Peacock SJ,van der Poll T

更新日期：2007-07-31 00:00:00

abstract：:In an essay, Paul Bloem and Ikechukwu Ogbuanu discuss the public health implications of HPV vaccination. ...

journal_title：PLoS medicine

authors： Bloem P,Ogbuanu I

更新日期：2017-06-27 00:00:00

abstract：:[This corrects the article DOI: 10.1371/journal.pmed.1003293.]. ...

journal_title：PLoS medicine

authors： PLOS Medicine Staff.

更新日期：2020-12-29 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Sales visits by pharmaceutical representatives ("drug detailing") are common, but little is known about the content of these visits or about the impact of visit characteristics on prescribing behavior. In this study, we evaluated the content and impact of detail visits for gabapentin by analyzing market rese...

journal_title：PLoS medicine

authors： Steinman MA,Harper GM,Chren MM,Landefeld CS,Bero LA

更新日期：2007-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Pharmacogenomics is one of the first clinical applications of the postgenomic era. It promises personalized medicine rather than the established "one size fits all" approach to drugs and dosages. The expected reduction in trial and error should ultimately lead to more efficient and safer drug therapy. In recent years,...

journal_title：PLoS medicine

authors： Swen JJ,Huizinga TW,Gelderblom H,de Vries EG,Assendelft WJ,Kirchheiner J,Guchelaar HJ

更新日期：2007-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Nina Finley and co-authors discuss public involvement in planning and reporting medical research. ...

journal_title：PLoS medicine

authors： Finley N,Swartz TH,Cao K,Tucker JD

更新日期：2020-09-14 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:This paper examines the efforts of consultants affiliated with Philip Morris (PM), the world's leading transnational tobacco corporation, to influence scientific research and training in Thailand via the Chulabhorn Research Institute (CRI). A leading Southeast Asian institute for environmental health science...

journal_title：PLoS medicine

authors： Mackenzie R,Collin J

更新日期：2008-12-23 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Many low- and middle-income countries are not on track to reach the public health targets set out in the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs). We evaluated whether differential progress towards health MDGs was associated with economic development, public health funding (both overall and as percentage of avail...

journal_title：PLoS medicine

authors： Stuckler D,Basu S,McKee M

更新日期：2010-03-02 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:A number of epidemiologic studies have observed an association between secondhand smoke (SHS) exposure and pediatric invasive bacterial disease (IBD) but the evidence has not been systematically reviewed. We carried out a systematic review and meta-analysis of SHS exposure and two outcomes, IBD and pharyngea...

journal_title：PLoS medicine

authors： Lee CC,Middaugh NA,Howie SR,Ezzati M

更新日期：2010-12-07 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Drug manufacturers have developed "evergreening" strategies to compete with generic medication after patent termination. These include marketing of slightly modified follow-on drugs. We aimed to estimate the financial impact of these drugs on overall healthcare costs and also to examine the impact of listing...

journal_title：PLoS medicine

authors： Vernaz N,Haller G,Girardin F,Huttner B,Combescure C,Dayer P,Muscionico D,Salomon JL,Bonnabry P

更新日期：2013-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Women with preeclampsia (PEC) and gestational hypertension (GH) exhibit insulin resistance during pregnancy, independent of obesity and glucose intolerance. Our aim was to determine whether women with PEC or GH during pregnancy have an increased risk of developing diabetes after pregnancy, and whether the pr...

journal_title：PLoS medicine

authors： Feig DS,Shah BR,Lipscombe LL,Wu CF,Ray JG,Lowe J,Hwee J,Booth GL

更新日期：2013-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:With no effective treatments for cognitive decline or dementia, improving the evidence base for modifiable risk factors is a research priority. This study investigated associations between risk factors and late-life cognitive decline on a global scale, including comparisons between ethno-regional groups. ME...

journal_title：PLoS medicine

authors： Lipnicki DM,Makkar SR,Crawford JD,Thalamuthu A,Kochan NA,Lima-Costa MF,Castro-Costa E,Ferri CP,Brayne C,Stephan B,Llibre-Rodriguez JJ,Llibre-Guerra JJ,Valhuerdi-Cepero AJ,Lipton RB,Katz MJ,Derby CA,Ritchie K,Ancelin ML

更新日期：2019-07-23 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Fibre is promoted as part of a healthy dietary pattern and in diabetes management. We have considered the role of high-fibre diets on mortality and increasing fibre intake on glycaemic control and other cardiometabolic risk factors of adults with prediabetes or diabetes. METHODS AND FINDINGS:We conducted a ...

journal_title：PLoS medicine

authors： Reynolds AN,Akerman AP,Mann J

更新日期：2020-03-06 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis (IPF) is a progressive and lethal disorder characterized by fibroproliferation and excessive accumulation of extracellular matrix in the lung. METHODS AND FINDINGS:Using oligonucleotide arrays, we identified osteopontin as one of the genes that significantly distinguishes IPF f...

journal_title：PLoS medicine

authors： Pardo A,Gibson K,Cisneros J,Richards TJ,Yang Y,Becerril C,Yousem S,Herrera I,Ruiz V,Selman M,Kaminski N

更新日期：2005-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Standardised packaging (SP) of tobacco products is an innovative tobacco control measure opposed by transnational tobacco companies (TTCs) whose responses to the UK government's public consultation on SP argued that evidence was inadequate to support implementing the measure. The government's initial decisio...

journal_title：PLoS medicine

authors： Ulucanlar S,Fooks GJ,Hatchard JL,Gilmore AB

更新日期：2014-03-25 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Although the involvement of intra-tumor genetic heterogeneity in tumor progression, treatment resistance, and metastasis is established, genetic heterogeneity is seldom examined in clinical trials or practice. Many studies of heterogeneity have had prespecified markers for tumor subpopulations, limiting thei...

journal_title：PLoS medicine

authors： Mroz EA,Tward AD,Hammon RJ,Ren Y,Rocco JW

更新日期：2015-02-10 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:The standard approaches to diagnosing autism spectrum disorder (ASD) evaluate between 20 and 100 behaviors and take several hours to complete. This has in part contributed to long wait times for a diagnosis and subsequent delays in access to therapy. We hypothesize that the use of machine learning analysis o...

journal_title：PLoS medicine

authors： Tariq Q,Daniels J,Schwartz JN,Washington P,Kalantarian H,Wall DP

更新日期：2018-11-27 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Although gastric cancer has declined dramatically in the US, the disease remains the second leading cause of cancer mortality worldwide. A better understanding of reasons for the decline can provide important insights into effective preventive strategies. We sought to estimate the contribution of risk factor...

journal_title：PLoS medicine

authors： Yeh JM,Hur C,Schrag D,Kuntz KM,Ezzati M,Stout N,Ward Z,Goldie SJ

更新日期：2013-01-01 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:It remains unclear when standard systematic reviews and meta-analyses that rely on published aggregate data (AD) can provide robust clinical conclusions. We aimed to compare the results from a large cohort of systematic reviews and meta-analyses based on individual participant data (IPD) with meta-analyses o...

journal_title：PLoS medicine

authors： Tierney JF,Fisher DJ,Burdett S,Stewart LA,Parmar MKB

更新日期：2020-01-31 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Global data indicate that women with a history of hyperglycemia first detected in pregnancy (HFDP) are at up to 7 times risk of progressing to type 2 diabetes mellitus (T2DM) compared with their counterparts who have pregnancies that are not complicated by hyperglycemia. However, there are no data from the s...

journal_title：PLoS medicine

authors： Chivese T,Norris SA,Levitt NS

更新日期：2019-09-09 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:There have been increasing concerns regarding the safety and efficacy of neuroleptics in people with dementia, but there are very few long-term trials to inform clinical practice. The aim of this study was to determine the impact of long-term treatment with neuroleptic agents upon global cognitive decline an...

journal_title：PLoS medicine

authors： Ballard C,Lana MM,Theodoulou M,Douglas S,McShane R,Jacoby R,Kossakowski K,Yu LM,Juszczak E,Investigators DART AD.

更新日期：2008-04-01 00:00:00