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- 1From: PLoS Medicine. (Vol. 4, Issue 10) Peer-ReviewedThe purpose of this short paper is to explain how the international framework of human rights can be better used to help reduce child poverty and improve child survival rates. The Consequences of Child Poverty It is...
- 2From: PLoS Medicine. (Vol. 4, Issue 10) Peer-ReviewedABSTRACT Background Epidermal growth factor receptor (EGFR) mutations are present in the majority of patients with non-small cell lung cancer (NSCLC) responsive to the EGFR tyrosine kinase inhibitors (TKIs) gefitinib...
- 3From: PLoS Medicine. (Vol. 4, Issue 10) Peer-ReviewedMasenior and Beyrer's article is an important contribution to the continuing debate as to the direction of public health efforts regarding commercial sex work [1]. The authors are correct in that the debate between those...
- 4From: PLoS Medicine. (Vol. 4, Issue 10) Peer-ReviewedOver the past several years, information technologies have been increasingly used in health applications in developing countries [1-5]. Here we report our experience integrating a number of information and communication...
- 5From: PLoS Medicine. (Vol. 4, Issue 10) Peer-ReviewedIt is often asserted that AIDS is at the core of a "vicious circle", whereby the impacts of AIDS increase poverty and social deprivation, while poverty and social deprivation increase vulnerability to HIV infection. In...
- 6From: PLoS Medicine. (Vol. 4, Issue 10) Peer-ReviewedABSTRACT Background The epidermal growth factor receptor (EGFR) plays a critical role in the control of cellular proliferation, differentiation, and survival. Abnormalities in EGF-EGFR signaling, such as mutations...
- 7From: PLoS Medicine. (Vol. 4, Issue 10) Peer-ReviewedBackground to the debate: PLoS Medicine is participating in the Council of Science Editors' global theme issue on poverty and human development on October 22, 2007 (http://www.councilscienceeditors.org/globalthemeissue....
- 8From: PLoS Medicine. (Vol. 4, Issue 10) Peer-ReviewedABSTRACT Much medical research is observational. The reporting of observational studies is often of insufficient quality. Poor reporting hampers the assessment of the strengths and weaknesses of a study and the...
- 9From: PLoS Medicine. (Vol. 4, Issue 10) Peer-ReviewedAccess to health care is a major health and development issue. Most governments declare that their citizens should enjoy universal and equitable access to good quality care. However, even within the developed world, this...
- 10From: PLoS Medicine. (Vol. 4, Issue 10) Peer-ReviewedThe PLoS Medicine Editors "The poor fare worse than the better-off almost everywhere and with respect to nearly every indicator" [1] Of all the different types of health inequalities that have been documented, such...
- 11From: PLoS Medicine. (Vol. 4, Issue 10) Peer-ReviewedABSTRACT Background Both food insufficiency and HIV infection are major public health problems in sub-Saharan Africa, yet the impact of food insufficiency on HIV risk behavior has not been systematically...
- 12From: PLoS Medicine. (Vol. 4, Issue 10) Peer-ReviewedMaia Szalavitz How can you even have a debate over whether to publish data on snus [1]? No medical journal even contemplated not publishing data on needle exchange to prevent HIV--which continues addiction just as...
- 13From: PLoS Medicine. (Vol. 4, Issue 10) Peer-Reviewed"Slums are a manifestation of the two main challenges facing human settlements development at the beginning of the new millennium: rapid urbanization and the urbanization of poverty." Anna Kajumulo Tibaijuka, Executive...
- 14From: PLoS Medicine. (Vol. 4, Issue 10) Peer-ReviewedABSTRACT Background Mutations in the epidermal growth factor receptor (EGFR) gene are associated with increased sensitivity of lung cancers to kinase inhibitors like erlotinib. Mechanisms of cell death that occur...
- 15From: PLoS Medicine. (Vol. 4, Issue 10) Peer-ReviewedTargeting the Epidermal Growth Factor Receptor Kinase in Cancer During the last five years, kinase inhibitors have emerged as a promising new class of cancer therapeutics [1]. These drugs target enzymes that are often...
- 16From: PLoS Medicine. (Vol. 4, Issue 10) Peer-ReviewedABSTRACT Background Long-term retention of patients in Africa's rapidly expanding antiretroviral therapy (ART) programs for HIV/AIDS is essential for these programs' success but has received relatively little...
- 17From: PLoS Medicine. (Vol. 4, Issue 10) Peer-ReviewedNutrition, Food, and HIV HIV and nutrition are linked in at least two important ways. First, the nutritional consequences of HIV have been obvious from the earliest reports of the epidemic in Africa. Patients suffering...
- 18From: PLoS Medicine. (Vol. 4, Issue 10) Peer-ReviewedDespite intensive use of the term mild cognitive impairment (MCI) to describe an intermediate stage of cognitive decline between normal and pathological brain ageing, no formally agreed process of characterising this...
- 19From: PLoS Medicine. (Vol. 4, Issue 10) Peer-ReviewedABSTRACT Background Despite its health benefits, physical inactivity is pervasive, particularly among those living in lower-income urban communities. In such settings, neighborhood safety may impact willingness to...
- 20From: PLoS Medicine. (Vol. 4, Issue 10) Peer-ReviewedABSTRACT Much biomedical research is observational. The reporting of such research is often inadequate, which hampers the assessment of its strengths and weaknesses and of a study's generalisability. The...