PloS Medicine

Moore and Blair T. Johnson, Initial Severity and Antidepressant Benefits A Meta-Analysis of Data Submitted to the Food and Drug Administration , PLoS Medicine, no. 2 (2008) http //medicine. plosjournals.org/perlserv/ request=get-document doi=io.i37i /joumal.pmed.0050045... 

Wemer, Rachel, Losing the Point , PLoS Medicine, 28 February (2008) http / / medicine.plosjoumals.org/perlserv/ request-read-response doi-io.i37i /journal.pmed. 0050045... 

Heilmann, C. et al., Reduced antibody responses to vaccinations in children exposed to polychlorinated biphenyls. PLOS Medicine, 3, 1352, 2006.. 

Lacasse J.R. and J. Leo (2005). Serotonin and depression A disconnect between the advertisements and the scientific literature. PLoS Medicine 2 1211-1216. 

Marc-Andre Gagnon and Joel Lexchin, The Cost of Pushing Pills A New Estimate of Pharmaceutical Promotion Expenditures in the United States, PLoS Medicine 5, no. 1, 2008, p. el. Available online. URL http //medicine. 

Fugh-Berman, A., and S. Ahari. Following the Script Flow Drug Reps Make Friends and Influence Doctors. PLoS Medicine 4, no. 4 (April 4,... 

Dentico, N. and N. Ford. 2005. The Courage to Change the Rules A Proposal for an Essential Health R D Treaty. PloS Medicine 2 96-99. Available at http //medicine.plosjournals.org/ archive/1549-1676/2/2/pdf/10.1371 joumaLpmed.0020014-L.pdf [Accessed November 11, 2005]. 

Pecoul, B. 2004. New Drugs for Neglected Diseases From Pipeline to Patients. PLoS Medicine 1 19-22. Available at http //www.dndi.org/pdf files/new drugs.pdf [Accessed December 14, 2005]. 

Healy, D., Herxheimer, A., Menkes, D. (2006). Antidepressants and violence Problems at the interface of medicine and law. PloS Medicine, 3, 1478-1487. 

Douglas, Robert M. and Harri Hemila. Vitamin C for Preventing and Treating the Common Cold. PLoS Medicine 2 (6) (2005) el68. Also available online. URL http //medicine.plosjournals. org/perlserv/ request=get-document doi=10.1371/journal. pmed.0020168. Accessed on May 26, 2007. 

PLOS Medicine. 2004-. San Francisco, CA Public Library of Science. Monthly, new articles published weekly. URL http // medicine.plosjoumals.org/perlserv/ request = index-html issn 1549-1676. PLOS is an open access international, modern. 

Vivian Siegel described the Public Library of Science as a public charity with a mission to make the world s scientific and medical literature a freely available public resource. A way to achieve this mission is to launch open-access journals. PLoS Biology was launched in 2003, PLoS Medicine in the fall of 2004. Publication is the final and often the only tangible product of research. In an electronic era, it is possible to think about pubhshing as service providing and assign a fixed cost to the value that publishers add. 

PLoS Biology has gotten more than 1 million COUNTER compliant downloads of articles this year, about 100,000 downloads every month, and about 4 million hits each month. PLoS publishes about 20 papers every month. PLoS Medicine had 30,000 COUNTER compliant downloads in the first week of its existence. These numbers do not include downloads at PubMed Central. PLoS also reaches areas that do not have on-line access, Siegel added. There have been cases of the full PDF of the journal being downloaded (by someone other than the author or publisher) and sent to places where quick electronic access is not feasible. 

R. M. Douglas, H. Hemila (2005) Vitamin C for preventing and treating the common cold. Plos Medicine, 2, 503-504. 

Mathers CD and Loncar D. Projections of global mortality and burden of disease from 2002 to 2030. PLoS Medicine. 2006 3(ll) e442. 

Public Library of Science (PLoS) http //www.plos.org (accessed July 14, 2010). Founded in 2000, PLoS comprised a coalition of research scientists and physicians dedicated to making the world s scientific and medical literature a public resource. Their first action was to encourage scientific publishers to provide archival scientific research literature for distribution through free online public libraries of science. In 2001, the group launched their own PLoS journals. In 2003, PLoS Biology was launched, followed by PLoS Medicine in October 2004 both have open access journals and are relevant to the bioengineer. 

The details of the selection of all relevant articles both, excluded articles and included articles were performed through several criteria, based on the PRISMA statement established for reporting systematic reviews and meta-analyses of studies (PLoS Medicine, 2009). All those details can be shown in Figure 1. 

P. McGettigan and D. Henry, Cardiovascular risk with non-steroidal anti-inflammatory drugs systematic review of population-based controlled observational studies, PLoS Medicine, 2011, 8, el001098. 

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