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- 1From: PLoS Medicine. (Vol. 3, Issue 8) Peer-ReviewedABSTRACT Background Cause-specific mortality statistics remain scarce for the majority of low-income countries, where the highest disease burdens are experienced. Neither facility-based information systems nor vital...
- 2From: PLoS Medicine. (Vol. 3, Issue 8) Peer-ReviewedLeptospirosis is a zoonotic infectious disease that is transmitted from animals to humans primarily via water [1]. The causative agent is a bacterial spirochete that colonizes the renal tubules of infected animals and is...
- 3From: PLoS Medicine. (Vol. 3, Issue 8) Peer-ReviewedWe read with interest the paper by Stasi et al. [1] about the follow-up of patients with a so-called borderline thrombocytopenia with platelet numbers of 100 x [10.sup.9]/l to 150 x [10.sup.9]/l. Data about the long-term...
- 4From: PLoS Medicine. (Vol. 3, Issue 8) Peer-ReviewedABSTRACT Background Age-related macular degeneration (AMD) is the leading cause of blindness in people over 50 y of age in at least three continents. Choroidal neovascularization (CNV) is the process by which...
- 5From: PLoS Medicine. (Vol. 3, Issue 8) Peer-ReviewedABSTRACT Background Development of new, effective, and affordable tuberculosis (TB) therapies has been identified as a critical priority for global TB control. As new candidates emerge from the global TB drug...
- 6From: PLoS Medicine. (Vol. 3, Issue 8) Peer-ReviewedABSTRACT Background Recent studies have indicated an increased risk of venous thrombosis after air travel. Nevertheless, questions on the magnitude of risk, the underlying mechanism, and modifying factors remain...
- 7From: PLoS Medicine. (Vol. 3, Issue 8) Peer-ReviewedTraveling has always been a risky venture. In times gone by, the traveler left the security of home to face myriad dangers, including accidents, storms, infectious disease, malnutrition, and assault. Consider the choices...
- 8From: PLoS Medicine. (Vol. 3, Issue 8) Peer-ReviewedABSTRACT Background The identification of schizophrenia biomarkers is a crucial step towards improving current diagnosis, developing new presymptomatic treatments, identifying high-risk individuals and disease...
- 9From: PLoS Medicine. (Vol. 3, Issue 8) Peer-ReviewedABSTRACT Background We postulated that during ontogenesis cortical surface area and cerebral volume are related by a scaling law whose exponent gives a quantitative measure of cortical development. We used this...
- 10From: PLoS Medicine. (Vol. 3, Issue 8) Peer-ReviewedBackground to the debate: All of the major international medical journals are now available both in print and online. Being online increases the potential for these journals to have a more global distribution. With the...
- 11From: PLoS Medicine. (Vol. 3, Issue 8) Peer-ReviewedAge-related macular disease (AMD) occurs most frequently in people aged 60 years and older and affects the central part of the retina, causing distortion or loss of central vision. The disease is the leading cause of...
- 12From: PLoS Medicine. (Vol. 3, Issue 8) Peer-ReviewedDESCRIPTION of CASE A 26-year-old man presented to the Hospital San Juan de Matucana, Lima, Peru, with a two-week history of fever, myalgias, and arthralgia of the left hip and right sternoclavicular joint. On clinical...
- 13From: PLoS Medicine. (Vol. 3, Issue 8) Peer-ReviewedThe humanistic principles of the medical profession are nicely condensed in Oliver Wendell Holmes's old maxim stating that the key role of the physician is "to comfort always." Thus, beyond the specificity of diagnoses...
- 14From: PLoS Medicine. (Vol. 3, Issue 8) Peer-ReviewedPRESENTATION of CASE A 79-y-old man presented with obstructive jaundice in July 2001 and was diagnosed with carcinoma of the head of the pancreas. He underwent a total pancreatectomy, as well as resection of the distal...
- 15From: PLoS Medicine. (Vol. 3, Issue 8) Peer-ReviewedPrenatal and postnatal exposure to persistent organochlorine pollutants, such as polychlorinated biphenyls (PCBs), has been implicated as a possible cause of impaired immune function in children. For example, studies...
- 16From: PLoS Medicine. (Vol. 3, Issue 8) Peer-ReviewedABSTRACT Background The efficacy of statin therapy in patients with established chronic heart failure (CHF) is a subject of much debate. Methods and Findings We conducted three systematic literature searches to...
- 17From: PLoS Medicine. (Vol. 3, Issue 8) Peer-ReviewedInterleukin-32 (IL-32), which was previously called natural killer cell transcript 4, has recently been recognized as a proinflammatory cytokine (see Glossary) [1]. The main sources of IL-32 are natural killer cells, T...
- 18From: PLoS Medicine. (Vol. 3, Issue 8) Peer-ReviewedABSTRACT Background The United Kingdom incidence of anaphylaxis has increased very sharply over the last decade, with the highest rates of hospital admissions occurring in school-aged children. This raises concerns...
- 19From: PLoS Medicine. (Vol. 3, Issue 8) Peer-ReviewedAn increasingly important goal of governments and external agencies in developing countries is the need for "capacity building" in health research. Although a poorly defined and understood concept, capacity building...
- 20From: PLoS Medicine. (Vol. 3, Issue 8) Peer-ReviewedABSTRACT Background Bilharzia is one of the major parasitic infections affecting the public health and socioeconomic circumstances in (sub) tropical areas. Its causative agents are schistosomes. Since these worms...