Read the new papers published in PLoS Medicine this week, including a Research Article that analyzes data from 147 countries to identify factors that influence the time taken to introduce routine vaccination against Haemophilus influenzae type b (Hib) and an Essay that discusses the growing epidemic of chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD), especially in developing [...]
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Read the new papers published in PLoS Medicine this week, including two Research Articles that investigate surgical provision in eight district hospitals in three sub-Saharan African countries. The first article finds low levels of surgical care provision, suggesting unmet need for surgical services, and the second article describes the range of providers of surgical care [...]
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Read the new papers published in PLoS Medicine this week, including a Research Article that examines why poor countries are falling behind with the UN Millennium Development Goals for health and finds that noncommunicable diseases and HIV prevalence are strongly associated with the difficulty countries have meeting these targets.
Also published this week, two Research in [...]
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Read the new papers published in PLoS Medicine this week, including three Research Articles – the first finds that major diabetes complications are a huge economic burden to health care systems across all economic regions, the second finds that the rate of CD4 T cell decline is not useful in deciding when to start HIV [...]
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Read the new papers published in PLoS Medicine this week, including a Research Article that confirms that a single dose of nevirapine (sdNVP) can lead to HIV treatment failure in women, another Research Article that calculates the benefits of value-based insurance design, in which patients pay less for highly cost-effective services, and a Guidelines and [...]
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Read the new papers published in PLoS Medicine this week, including a Research Article that finds nearly half of adolescents admitted to two public hospitals in Zimbabwe were HIV positive and its related Perspective that discusses the implications of this study.
Also published this week, an Essay that discusses whether measuring hsCRP is an important part [...]
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Read the new papers published in PLoS Medicine this week, including a Research Article that finds at least 125.2 million women at risk of malaria become pregnant each year, a Health in Action that discuss how Médecins Sans Frontières has addressed the issue of maintaining quality control for laboratory testing, and an Essay in which [...]
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Read the new papers published in PLoS Medicine this week, including a Research Article that finds circumcising newborn boys is a way to prevent HIV infection in later life and is more cost-effective than circumcising adult males. This article is accompanied by a related Perspective in which the author declares: Neonatal MC should therefore be [...]
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Read the new papers published in PLoS Medicine this week, including a Research Article that finds that British American Tobacco (BAT) strategically influenced the European Union Treaty so that new EU policies emphasize business interests over public health, and another Research Article that maps the spread of MRSA across Europe and finds that MRSA is [...]
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