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- 1From: PLoS Medicine. (Vol. 3, Issue 6) Peer-ReviewedABSTRACT Background The recent emergence of hypervirulent subtypes of avian influenza has underlined the potentially devastating effects of pandemic influenza. Were such a virus to acquire the ability to spread...
- 2From: PLoS Medicine. (Vol. 3, Issue 6) Peer-ReviewedFalciparum malaria kills, and it particularly kills the rural poor. Artemisinin derivatives, such as artesunate, are a vital component of Plasmodium falciparum malaria treatment and control in the face of globally...
- 3From: PLoS Medicine. (Vol. 3, Issue 6) Peer-ReviewedConcerns about adverse events, including deaths, in recent large clinical trials, both publicly and privately sponsored, prompted Elias A. Zerhouni, Director, National Institutes of Health (NIH) to convene a meeting at...
- 4From: PLoS Medicine. (Vol. 3, Issue 6) Peer-ReviewedWe read with interest the article by Mackie et al. entitled "Lessons on Ethical Decision Making from the Bioscience Industry" [1]. The authors recognise some study limitations, including the possibility of social...
- 5From: PLoS Medicine. (Vol. 3, Issue 6) Peer-ReviewedThis is the first in a series of two articles that look at the lessons for clinical medicine from systems biology. Since Descartes and the Renaissance, science, including medicine, has taken a distinct path in its...
- 6From: PLoS Medicine. (Vol. 3, Issue 6) Peer-ReviewedABSTRACT Background The ζ2, ζ3, and ζ4 alleles of the apolipoprotein E gene (APOE) encode three isoforms, apoE2, E3, and E4, respectively. The apoE isoforms circulate in different plasma concentrations, but plasma...
- 7From: PLoS Medicine. (Vol. 3, Issue 6) Peer-ReviewedThe World Health Organization recently stated the following: "Since 2003, the world has moved closer to a[n] [influenza] pandemic than at any time since 1968" [1]. Influenza A (H5N1) viruses have reached high prevalence...
- 8From: PLoS Medicine. (Vol. 3, Issue 6) Peer-ReviewedPeer-reviewed medical journals are generally considered to be a source of unbiased and reliable information about drugs. But at the same time, most medical journals contain advertisements, almost all of which are for...
- 9From: PLoS Medicine. (Vol. 3, Issue 6) Peer-ReviewedABSTRACT Background Following natural disasters, mismanagement of the dead has consequences for the psychological well-being of survivors. However, no technical guidelines currently exist for managing mass fatalities...
- 10From: PLoS Medicine. (Vol. 3, Issue 6) Peer-ReviewedABSTRACT Background Ebola virus causes a hemorrhagic fever syndrome that is associated with high mortality in humans. In the absence of effective therapies for Ebola virus infection, the development of a vaccine...
- 11From: PLoS Medicine. (Vol. 3, Issue 6) Peer-ReviewedABSTRACT Background Some argue that by precluding individualized treatment, randomized clinical trials (RCTs) provide substandard medical care, while others claim that participation in clinical research is associated...
- 12From: PLoS Medicine. (Vol. 3, Issue 6) Peer-ReviewedFew biological processes as central to the survival of viviparous species are so incompletely understood as childbirth (parturition) [1]. Premature labor and prolonged gestation due to failure of labor to commence are...
- 13From: PLoS Medicine. (Vol. 3, Issue 6) Peer-ReviewedABSTRACT Background To study the potential association of antidepressant use and suicide at a population level, we analyzed the associations between suicide rates and dispensing of the prototypic SSRI antidepressant...
- 14From: PLoS Medicine. (Vol. 3, Issue 6) Peer-ReviewedABSTRACT Background Interventions designed to narrow the gap between research findings and clinical practice may be effective, but also costly. Economic evaluations are necessary to judge whether such interventions...
- 15From: PLoS Medicine. (Vol. 3, Issue 6) Peer-ReviewedTwo leaders in the global fight against HIV/AIDS--Richard Feachem, Executive Director of the Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis, and Malaria, and Peter Piot, Executive Director of the Joint United Nations Programme...
- 16From: PLoS Medicine. (Vol. 3, Issue 6) Peer-ReviewedWe congratulate Hotez et al. [1] for a compelling and important paper that challenges the global health audience to address neglected tropical diseases affecting the poor and powerless in resource-poor settings. Full...
- 17From: PLoS Medicine. (Vol. 3, Issue 6) Peer-ReviewedThe Challenge Throughout the world, people who are vulnerable and socially disadvantaged have less access to health resources, get sicker, and die earlier than people in more privileged social positions. Health equity...
- 18From: PLoS Medicine. (Vol. 3, Issue 6) Peer-ReviewedABSTRACT Background Early diagnosis and treatment with artesunate-mefloquine combination therapy (MAS) have reduced the transmission of falciparum malaria dramatically and halted the progression of mefloquine...
- 19From: PLoS Medicine. (Vol. 3, Issue 6) Peer-ReviewedMerck has always been committed to the highest standards of scientific integrity, patient safety, and ethics. In his part of the PLoS Medicine Debate entitled "What Are the Public Health Effects of Direct-to-Consumer...
- 20From: PLoS Medicine. (Vol. 3, Issue 6) Peer-ReviewedABSTRACT Background A gap exists between evidence and practice regarding the management of cardiovascular risk factors. This gap could be narrowed if systematically developed clinical practice guidelines were...