PLoS medicine

PLoS Med · ISSN (e) 1549-1676 · 30 papers in corpus
observational 2011
Predicting live birth, preterm delivery, and low birth weight in infants born from in vitro fertilisation: a prospective study of 144,018 treatment cycles.
doi:10.1371/journal.pmed.1000386 ·PMID:21245905

BackgroundThe extent to which baseline couple characteristics affect the probability of live birth and adverse perinatal outcomes after assisted conception is unknown.Methods and findingsWe utilised the Human Fertilisation and Embryology Au…

case-report 2009
A 73-year-old man with long-term immobility presenting with abdominal pain
doi:10.1371/journal.pmed.1000092 ·PMID:19597540

Salomone Di Saverio and colleagues discuss the diagnosis and management of a man presenting with symptoms of partial intestinal obstruction.

other 2009
Ovarian cancer: a clinical challenge that needs some basic answers
doi:10.1371/journal.pmed.1000025 ·PMID:19192945

Kate Lawrenson and Simon Gayther discuss two studies of ovarian cancer inPLoS Medicine, one on clinico-pathological heterogeneity and one on gene expression profiling.

observational 2009
Polyclonal B cell differentiation and loss of gastrointestinal tract germinal centers in the earliest stages of HIV-1 infection
doi:10.1371/journal.pmed.1000107 ·PMID:19582166

BACKGROUND: The antibody response to HIV-1 does not appear in the plasma until approximately 2-5 weeks after transmission, and neutralizing antibodies to autologous HIV-1 generally do not become detectable until 12 weeks or more after trans…

other 2008
Targeted nanoparticles for imaging incipient pancreatic ductal adenocarcinoma
doi:10.1371/journal.pmed.0050085 ·PMID:18416599

BACKGROUND: Pancreatic ductal adenocarcinoma (PDAC) carries an extremely poor prognosis, typically presenting with metastasis at the time of diagnosis and exhibiting profound resistance to existing therapies. The development of molecular ma…