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This week PLOS Medicine publishes the following new articles: The burden of cardiovascular disease (CVD), a major cause of illness and death in high-income countries for many years, is rapidly rising in low- and middle-income
This week PLOS Medicine focuses on mental health and tobacco policy with new articles: The PLOS Medicine editors discuss the paradox of mental health, where over-diagnosis and treatment of some mental health issues exists alongside
The following new articles are published in PLOS Medicine this week: Continuing with the series providing a global perspective on integrating mental health, Sylvia Kaaya and colleagues discuss the importance of integrating mental health interventions
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 international public
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 Ziegelbauer and colleagues finds that sanitation is associated with a reduced risk
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 death among adults
Earlier this week NPR ran an item about how anti-smoking efforts have evolved over the decades. Since 1984 when the first nicotine gum became available over the counter, nicotine replacement therapy drugs have been promoted