Perspective articles are commissioned from an expert and discuss the clinical practice or public health implications of a research article published in a PLoS journal. Some recent examples of Perspectives published in PLoS Medicine follow. You can find the link for the related research article in the right hand navigation bar of each piece.

• Estimating the Global Burden of Snakebite Can Help To Improve Management
• A Prospective Study of Spatial Clusters Gives Valuable Insights into Dengue Transmission
• Health Benefits of Universal Influenza Vaccination Strategy

In a Policy Forum published recently in PLoS Medicine, Adriane Fugh-Berman and Douglas Melnick described techniques by which pharmaceutical companies covertly promote off-label drug use even where such promotion is illegal. This paper has been widely covered by the media, a selection of which follows:

• The LA Times
• MSNBC
• Modern Medicine
• Estadao, Brazil

SciVee is a website that enables researchers to combine a video or an audio presentation with their published scientific paper to create a pubcast. You can listen to video summaries of recent PLoS Medicine articles and read the full texts of these papers via the following links:

• The Effect of Universal Influenza Immunization on Mortality and Health Care Use
• Effect of the California Tobacco Control Program on Personal Health Care Expenditures
• Adapting the DOTS Framework for Tuberculosis Control to the Management of Non-Communicable Diseases in Sub-Saharan Africa
• Aberrant Mucin Assembly in Mice Causes Endoplasmic Reticulum Stress and Spontaneous Inflammation Resembling Ulcerative Colitis

PLoS Pathogens

• Discerning the Complexity of Community Interactions Using a Drosophila Model of Polymicrobial Infections

PLoS Neglected Tropical Diseases

• Effects of Bothrops asper Snake Venom on Lymphatic Vessels: Insights into a Hidden Aspect of Envenomation

PLoS ONE

• Medicine in the Popular Press: The Influence of the Media on Perceptions of Disease