04/14/2025
Guidelines and Guidance
CONSORT 2025 aims to improve clinical trial reporting comprehensiveness, transparency, and accessibility for all readers, supporting data reproducibility and informing clinical trial design and analysis.
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Browse Issues 2004 – 2025
03/31/2025
Research Article
In a cluster-randomized controlled trial, Melese Siyoum and colleagues show that midwife-led pelvic floor muscle training improves symptoms and quality of life in patients with pelvic organ prolapse in Ethiopia.
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03/27/2025
Research Article
Xingxing Chen, Enying Gong, Jie Tan and team conduct a long-term follow-up of the SINEMA trial, examining all-cause mortality and cause-specific mortality for cardiovascular disease and stroke six years after the trial.
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03/27/2025
Research Article
Emma F Magavern, Maia Megase and colleagues use Yellow Card reports from the past 50 years to estimate the volume of adverse drug reactions that could be targeted by personalised prescribing based on pharmacogenomics.
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04/08/2025
Research Article
Using data from the NutriNet-Santé cohort study, Marie Payen de la Garanderie and colleagues investigate potential interactions of food additives in five commonly consumed food additive mixtures and their association with type 2 diabetes incidence.
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04/10/2025
Research Article
In a cohort study, David Horner and colleagues investigate maternal diet and breastfeeding and its association with cognitive outcomes in children.
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04/15/2025
Research Article
In a case-control study, Zhiwei Guo and colleagues investigate the use of nucleosome profiles of plasma cfDNA to predict preterm birth.
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04/02/2025
Editorial
In this Editorial, representatives of the International Committee of Medical Editors discuss the need for multi-stakeholder involvement to recognize and counter the actions of predatory journals.
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04/10/2025
Perspective
Ming Jun Kuck and Eef Hogervorst consider the data on the safety and potential cognitive effects in later life of midlife menopausal hormone treatment in women.
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03/06/2025
Research Article
By John Quattrochi and colleagues.
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In this Editorial, Guest Editors Timothy R. Walsh, Ana C. Gales, Ramanan Laxminarayan, and our PLOS Medicine Editor Philippa C. Dodd discuss the Special Issue dedicated to Antimicrobial resistance and emphasize the urgent threat of AMR.
Ruchita Balasubramanian and colleagues, estimate the incidence of hospital-associated infections resistant to antibiotics in 195 countries using point prevalence survey data.
James Neal Russell and colleagues explore antibiotic use and mortality prediction in hospitalised neonates and infants with sepsis.
Silvia Bertagnolio, Amitabh Bipin Suthar, Olga Tosas and Kitty Van Weezenbeek discuss surveillance of antimicrobial resistance, the existing limitations and the implications this has on accurate determination of incidence.
Yin Mo and colleagues investigate implications of antibiotic duration on antibiotic resistance in hospitals.
In this Special Issue, we present a fascinating array of research papers providing insights into various facets of mental health during the pandemic.
This collection of research articles highlights the multi-faceted challenges imposed by drug-resistant bacteria, the consequences for health and economics, and interventions that could lessen the burden.
In this Collection, PLOS Medicine presents high-quality translational research and clinical studies on advances in early cancer detection.
This Special Issue brings together the latest research on child and adolescent health, including strategies to monitor and combat child mortality from birth through adolescence, and environmental impacts on child health and mortality.
This 2019 Special Issue highlights the importance of nutrition for maternal and child health.
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