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This week in PLoS Medicine: Economic burden of diabetes complications; Role...

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...

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This Week in PLoS Medicine: Secondhand smoke; Medicaid smoking cessation;...

Image Credit: Johan Larsson Three new articles make their way to the PLoS Medicine homepage this week. Two articles are related to the health damages of tobacco smoke, and you can find more previously...

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Media Release: Tobacco smoking and high blood pressure are biggest killers of...

Image Credit: Alisha Vargas The life expectancy of a person born in Japan is among the highest in the world (82.9 years) yet tobacco smoking and high blood pressure are still the major risk factors for...

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This Week in PLoS Medicine: Sanitation & infection; adult mortality in Japan;...

Image Credit: Sustainable sanitation This week PLoS Medicine publishes three new articles, including a follow-up to a previously published manuscript. A systematic review and meta-analysis by Kathrin...

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This Week in PLoS Medicine: Tobacco policy; HIV & bacterial vaginosis; Big Food

Image Credit: Scott McLeod Five new articles published this week in PLoS Medicine, including two research articles on tobacco policy, and the continuation of our Big Food Series. Heide Weishaar and...

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Shining more light on tobacco company tactics

Two papers in PLoS Medicine this week highlight again the tactics used by the tobacco industry when attempts are made to regulate them. The WHO Framework Convention on Tobacco Control was the first...

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This Week in PLOS Medicine: SimSmoke for Brazil; Leisure-time physical...

Image Credit: Elyyo Three new articles published this week in PLOS Medicine: David Levy and colleagues use the SimSmoke model to estimate the effect of Brazil’s recent stronger tobacco control policies...

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This Week in PLOS Medicine: The Paradox of Mental Health, Big Tobacco,...

This week PLOS Medicine focuses on mental health and tobacco policy with new articles: Image Credit: Flickr Simon Powell The PLOS Medicine editors discuss the paradox of mental health, where...

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This Week in PLOS Medicine: Tobacco Control in India, Abortion & Preterm...

This week PLOS Medicine publishes the following new articles: Image Credit: slgckgc, Flickr The burden of cardiovascular disease (CVD), a major cause of illness and death in high-income countries for...

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This Week in PLOS Medicine: Couples & HIV Prophylaxis (PrEP), Smokeless...

This week PLOS Medicine publishes the following new articles: Image credit: CDC Several trials in various at-risk populations have shown that antiretroviral pre-exposure prophylaxis (PrEP) has provided...

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