Public Library of Science
The food industry should be regulated: expert
"The obesity crisis is made worse by the way industry formulates and markets its products and so must be regulated to prevent excesses and to protect the public good," writes a leading food expert in this week's PLoS Medicine.
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Jul 03, 2012 |
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Urban groups help women but no effect on perinatal outcomes in Mumbai
In this week's PLoS Medicine, David Osrin of the UCL Institute of Child Health, UK and colleagues report findings from a cluster-randomized trial conducted in Mumbai slums that aimed to evaluate whether facilitator-supported women' ...
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Jul 03, 2012 |
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Revisiting the association between saturated fat intake and coronary heart disease
In this week's PLoS Medicine, Kay-Tee Khaw of the University of Cambridge, UK and colleagues analyze data from a prospective cohort study and show associations between plasma concentrations of saturated phospholipid fatty ...
Cardiology
Jul 03, 2012 |
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Both innate and adaptive immune responses are critical to the control of influenza
Both innate and adaptive immune responses play an important role in controlling influenza virus infection, according to a study, published in the Open Access journal PLoS Computational Biology, by researchers from Oaklan ...
Medical research
Jun 28, 2012 |
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Social issues in teen years can hurt future health
Social interactions during adolescence can affect health many years into adulthood, according to research published June 27 in the open access journal PLoS ONE.
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Jun 27, 2012 |
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Who has power over food?
Addressing the twin crises of malnutrition around the world—hunger and obesity— demands that we ask who has power over food, rather than question just the mere presence or absence of food. This is the argument of ...
Health
Jun 26, 2012 |
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Low and middle income countries are the recent targets of processed food manufacturers
"There is significant penetration by multinational processed food manufacturers such as Nestle, Kraft, PepsiCo, and Danone into food environments in low-and-middle income countries, where consumption of unhealthy commodities ...
Health
Jun 26, 2012 |
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Traffic noise exposure associated with higher risk of heart attack
Exposure to traffic noise is significantly associated with heart attacks, according to research published June 20 in the open access journal PLoS ONE.
Cardiology
Jun 20, 2012 |
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Future reproductive outcomes for women who have had an ectopic pregnancy
Women who experience an initial ectopic pregnancy—when the embryo implants outside the womb, usually in the fallopian tubes—are less likely to conceive in the future and if they do, are at increased risk of having ...
Obstetrics & gynaecology
Jun 20, 2012 |
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Private healthcare no more efficient, accountable or effective than public sector in LMICs
A systematic review conducted by Sanjay Basu of the University of California, San Francisco and colleagues re-evaluated the evidence relating to comparative performance of public versus private sector healthcare delivery ...
Health
Jun 19, 2012 |
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Soda companies' PR campaigns are bad for health: experts
Health advocates need to organize strong public health campaigns to educate the public and policymakers about the dangers of both sugary beverages and the misleading industry corporate social responsibility campaigns that ...
Health
Jun 19, 2012 |
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Food industry needs more scrutiny from the public health community
In an editorial to launch a major new series on "Big Food," the PLoS Medicine editors and guest editors argue that the multinational food and beverage industry has a growing influence on the global health agenda and a majo ...
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Jun 19, 2012 |
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The role of dopamine in sleep regulation
A group of Spanish researchers has discovered a new function of the neurotransmitter dopamine in controlling sleep regulation. Dopamine acts in the pineal gland, which is central to dictating the 'circadian rhythm' in humans—the ...
Medical research
Jun 19, 2012 |
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Psychological distress associated with division of domestic work
Women are more likely than men to be responsible for the majority of domestic work in a household, which can lead to higher psychological distress, and new research shows that this correlation is further increased by perceived ...
Psychology & Psychiatry
Jun 13, 2012 |
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Improving quality of care for sick children in Kenya is cost effective
A cost-effectiveness analysis conducted by Edwine Barasa of the Kenya Medical Research Institute Centre for Geographic Medicine Research, Nairobi, Kenya and colleagues estimates that a complex intervention aimed at improving ...
Health
Jun 12, 2012 |
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