December 16, 2024
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02/04/2025
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Guiyou Yang, Tünde Montgomery-Csobán and colleagues assess the performance of the PIERS-ML and fullPIERS models for serial prediction of adverse outcomes of pre-eclampsia.
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Browse Issues 2004 – 2025
01/21/2025
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Romain Ragonnet and colleagues use a mathematical model to examine the impact of school closures on viral transmission, COVID-19-related mortality and health system burden in 74 countries.
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02/03/2025
Research Article
Using individual participant data, Dongqing Wang and colleagues find that prenatal balanced energy and protein supplements can increase gestational weight gain.
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01/17/2025
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Abhishek Bhatia and team estimate the real-world effectiveness of Paxlovid and examine treatment disparities using target trial emulation on a cohort of 703,647 patients from N3C's electronic health record database.
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02/11/2025
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Rosine Ingabire and team describe the associations between pregnancy and serious adverse events and the outcome of receipt of the second vaccine dose among women in the UMURINZI Ebola vaccination campaign.
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02/11/2025
Perspective
This Perspective article from Rebecca Grais and colleagues places a recently published study in PLOS Medicine in the context of the evolving landscape of vaccines and pregnancy.
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01/21/2025
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By Aleksandra Turkiewicz and colleagues.
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01/22/2025
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By Laura Slade, Maya Blackman and colleagues.
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02/06/2025
Perspective
Sacha St-Onge Ahmad and Zulfiqar A. Bhutta discuss the need to improve monitoring tools for sexual and reproductive health and rights globally, emphasising the importance of adaptable and valid measures to track progress in different contexts.
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01/21/2025
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By Si-Jing Chen 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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