News tagged with plos medicine
Relationships improve your odds of survival by 50 percent
A new Brigham Young University study adds our social relationships to the "short list" of factors that predict a person's odds of living or dying.
Jul 27, 2010 |
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Did seasonal flu vaccination increase the risk of infection with pandemic H1N1 flu?
In September 2009, news stories reported that researchers in Canada had found an increased risk of pandemic H1N1 (pH1N1) influenza in people who had previously been vaccinated against seasonal influenza. Their research, consisting ...
Medicine & Health / Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes
Apr 06, 2010 |
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Brain rhythm predicts real-time sleep stability, may lead to more precise sleep medications
A new study finds that a brain rhythm considered the hallmark of wakefulness not only persists inconspicuously during sleep but also signifies an individual's vulnerability to disturbance by the outside world. In their report ...
Medicine & Health / Medical research
Mar 03, 2011 |
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Physical activity can reduce the genetic predisposition to obesity by 40 percent
Although the whole population can benefit from a physically active lifestyle, in part through reduced obesity risk, a new study shows that individuals with a genetic predisposition to obesity can benefit even more. The research, ...
Aug 31, 2010 |
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Tobacco company helped shape European policy system favoring corporate profits over public health
British American Tobacco (BAT), the world's second largest tobacco transnational, strategically influenced the European Union's framework for evaluating policy options, leading to the acceptance of an agenda which emphasizes ...
Jan 12, 2010 |
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Ghostwritten articles overstate benefits of hormone replacement therapy and downplay harms
The first academic analysis of the 1500 documents unsealed in recent litigation against the pharmaceutical giant Wyeth (now part of Pfizer) reveals unprecedented insights into how pharmaceutical companies use ghostwriters ...
Sep 07, 2010 |
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From beaker to bits: Collaboration creates computational model of human tissue
Computer scientists and biologists in the Data Science Research Center at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute have developed a rare collaboration between the two very different fields to pick apart a fundamental roadblock to ...
Apr 02, 2012 |
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Deep sequencing reveals undeclared, potentially toxic ingredients within 15 samples of traditional Chinese medicines
Researchers at Murdoch University have used new DNA sequencing technology to reveal the animal and plant composition of traditional Chinese medicines (TCMs). Some of the TCM samples tested contained potentially ...
Apr 12, 2012 |
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Replacing saturated fat with polyunsaturated fatty acids is good for the heart
A study in this week's PLoS Medicine shows that the replacement of dietary saturated fatty acids with polyunsaturated fatty acids reduces coronary heart disease events, bringing much needed scientific evidence to an issue ...
Mar 22, 2010 |
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Dental researchers discover human beta defensins-3 ignite in oral cancer growth
Detecting oral cancer in its earliest stages can save the lives of the nearly 40,500 people diagnosed annually. But early detection has been difficult.
Jul 13, 2010 |
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Severe breathing disorders during sleep are associated with an increased risk of dying
Severe breathing disorders during sleep are associated with an increased risk of dying from any cause according to research published this week in the open access journal PLoS Medicine. The study finds that the increased risk o ...
Medicine & Health / Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes
Aug 17, 2009 |
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Another journal refuses tobacco-sponsored research
The online, open-access journal PLoS Medicine said this week that it will no longer accept for publication reports of research sponsored by tobacco companies. The journal joins two of its sister publications, PLoS Biology ...
Feb 28, 2010 |
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Inflammation markers linked more with fatal than nonfatal cardiovascular events in elderly
A study published this week in the open access journal PLoS Medicine shows that for elderly people at risk of cardiovascular disease, the presence of inflammatory markers in the blood can identify that an individual is at ...
Medicine & Health / Medical research
Jun 23, 2009 |
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Pharma must be held more accountable to its human rights responsibilities
In this week's PLoS Medicine, the Editors argue that drug companies should be held much more accountable for their human rights responsibilities to make medicines available and accessible to those in need.
Sep 28, 2010 |
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Evidence of medical complicity in torture at Guantanamo Bay
Inspection of medical records, case files, and legal affidavits provides compelling evidence that medical personnel who treated detainees at Guantanamo Bay (GTMO) failed to inquire and/or document causes of physical injuries ...
Apr 26, 2011 |
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PLoS Medicine
PLoS Medicine is a scientific journal covering the full spectrum of the medical sciences. It began operation on October 19, 2004. It was the second journal of the Public Library of Science (PLoS) a non-profit organization which releases scientific content under open access terms. All content in PLoS Medicine is published under the Creative Commons "by-attribution" license [1]. To fund the journal, the publication's business model requires that, in most cases, authors will pay publication costs.
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