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This Week in PLOS Medicine: Tobacco Control in India, Abortion & Preterm Birth, & Evidence & Global Health Interventions

By PLOS Medicine
Posted: July 9, 2013

Category: PLoS Medicine Week by Week | Tagged abortion, Cardiovascular, cardiovascular health, global health interventions, global health policy, heart failure, pregnancy, preterm birth, public health, smoking, Stroke, tobacco, tobacco control, tobacco policy | Comments Off

This Week in PLOS Medicine: The Paradox of Mental Health, Big Tobacco, Psychotherapy, Domestic Violence & Postpartum Depression, & More

By PLOS Medicine
Posted: May 28, 2013

Category: PLoS Medicine Week by Week | Tagged depression, domestic violence, Global Health Systems, health systems strengthening, Integrating Mental Health Series, intimate partner violence, Mental Health, perinatal depression, PLoS Medicine Week by Week, Post traumatic stress disorder, postpardum depression, psychiatry, psycotherapy, smoking, stigma, tobacco, tobacco policy | Comments Off

This Week in PLOS Medicine: Integrating Mental Health & HIV Care, Colon & Gastric Cancer, & Essential Pediatric Medicines

By PLOS Medicine
Posted: May 21, 2013

Category: PLoS Medicine Week by Week | Tagged ART, Cancer, colorectal cancer, essential medicines, gastric cancer, ghana, H. pylori, HIV, HIV prevention, Integrating Mental Health Series, pediatric, RNA, smoking, sub-saharan Africa | Comments Off

Shining more light on tobacco company tactics

By Virginia Barbour
Posted: June 26, 2012

Category: General | Tagged industry, smoking, tobacco | 1 Comment

This Week in PLoS Medicine: Sanitation & infection; adult mortality in Japan; Ghostwriting in the courts

By Michael Morris
Posted: January 24, 2012

Category: PLoS Medicine Week by Week | Tagged Ghostwriting, high blood pressure, mortality, noncommunicable diseases, Policy, research ethics, sanitation, smoking, tobacco, Water and Sanitation | Comments Off

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

By PLOS Medicine
Posted: January 24, 2012

Category: Media Releases | Tagged high blood pressure, injury, life expectancy, lifestyle, mortality, noncommunicable diseases, smoking, tobacco | Comments Off

Is a megaphone drowning out the most effective way to quit smoking?

By Andrew Hyde
Posted: February 18, 2010

Category: Media, Public | Tagged public health, smoking, tobacco control | 2 Comments