PLoS medicine
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Review Meta Analysis
Social relationships and mortality risk: a meta-analytic review.
The quality and quantity of individuals' social relationships has been linked not only to mental health but also to both morbidity and mortality. ⋯ The influence of social relationships on risk for mortality is comparable with well-established risk factors for mortality. Please see later in the article for the Editors' Summary.
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Review Historical Article
Left to their own devices: breakdowns in United States medical device premarket review.
Using examples from recent FDA regulatory proceedings, Jonas Hines and colleagues critique the medical device premarket review and identify eight weaknesses in the process that should be remedied.