News tagged with plos medicine
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Food supplements have little effect on the weight of malnourished children
Providing energy dense food supplements within a general household food distribution has little effect on the weight of children at risk of malnutrition
Overweight and Obesity
Sep 18, 2012 |
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New gene offers hope for preventive medicine against fractures
A big international study has identified a special gene that regulates bone density and bone strength. The gene can be used as a risk marker for fractures and opens up opportunities for preventive medicine against fractures. ...
Genetics
Sep 18, 2012 |
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Blood transfusion services in Africa should suit local contact—funders take note
Scientists find that Western approach to blood transfusion employed in Africa - often a condition of financial aid - may add significant cost to blood units, due to emergency nature of most African patients ...
Other
Sep 11, 2012 |
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Quality of life and treatment of late-stage chronic kidney disease
Renal transplantation is best treatment option for improving quality of life in people with late-stage chronic kidney disease
Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes
Sep 11, 2012 |
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'Spin' in media reports of scientific articles
Press releases and news stories reporting the results of randomized controlled trials often contain "spin"—specific reporting strategies (intentional or unintentional) emphasizing the beneficial effect of the experimental ...
Other
Sep 11, 2012 |
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Overcoming barriers to point-of-care testing in low-resource settings
In a Policy Forum article in this week's PLOS Medicine Madhukar Pai from McGill University, Canada and colleagues discuss a framework for how point-of-care testing can be applied to infectious diseases in low- and middle ...
Health
Sep 04, 2012 |
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'Benign' malaria key driver of human evolution in Asia-Pacific
The malaria species rampant in the Asia-Pacific region has been a significant driver of evolution of the human genome, a new study has shown. An international team of researchers has shown that Plasmodium vivax malaria, the mo ...
Medical research
Sep 04, 2012 |
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Increased mortality in HIV-positive South African men versus women is unrelated to HIV/AIDS
In South Africa, HIV-infected men who are receiving treatment with anti-HIV drugs (antiretroviral therapy) are almost a third more likely to die than HIV-positive women who are receiving similar treatment: however, these ...
HIV & AIDS
Sep 04, 2012 |
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Adverse effects of mining industry provoke hard questions for medical humanitarian organizations
Increasingly humanitarian organizations will find themselves responding to health emergencies provoked by the adverse effects of mining and other extractive industries, setting up a potential clash to do with the core principles ...
Health
Aug 28, 2012 |
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New PLOS collection: Child mortality estimation methods
Child mortality is a key indicator not only of child health and nutrition but also of the implementation of child survival interventions and, more broadly, of social and economic development. Millennium Development Goal 4 ...
Health
Aug 28, 2012 |
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Better air quality indicators are needed for the world's cities
In their August editorial, the PLOS Medicine Editors reflect on a recent Policy Forum article by Jason Corburn and Alison Cohen, which describes the need for urban health equity indicators to guide public health policy in cit ...
Health
Aug 28, 2012 |
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More research needed on the best treatment options for multidrug-resistant TB
The use of newer drugs, a greater number of effective drugs, and a longer treatment regimen may be associated with improved survival of patients with multidrug resistant tuberculosis (MDR-TR), according to a large study by ...
Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes
Aug 28, 2012 |
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Potency of statins linked to muscle side effects
A study from the University of California, San Diego School of Medicine, published August 22 online by PLoS ONE, reports that muscle problems reported by patients taking statins were related to the strength or potency of the ...
Medical research
Aug 22, 2012 |
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Natural birth -- but not C-section -- triggers brain-boosting proteins
Vaginal birth triggers the expression of a protein in the brains of newborns that improves brain development and function in adulthood, according to a new study by Yale School of Medicine researchers, who ...
Neuroscience
Aug 08, 2012 |
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Doctors often don't disclose all possible risks to patients before treatment
Most informed consent disputes involve disagreements about who said what and when, not stand-offs over whether a particular risk ought to have been disclosed. But doctors may "routinely underestimate the importance of a small ...
Health
Aug 08, 2012 |
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