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- 1From: PLoS Medicine. (Vol. 4, Issue 3) Peer-ReviewedABSTRACT Background Systematic reviews (SRs) have become increasingly popular to a wide range of stakeholders. We set out to capture a representative cross-sectional sample of published SRs and examine them in terms...
- 2From: PLoS Medicine. (Vol. 4, Issue 3) Peer-ReviewedParasites of the genus Plasmodium cause many hundreds of millions of cases of malaria worldwide every year. There is recently renewed optimism that in the future effective vaccination will join the current strategies of...
- 3From: PLoS Medicine. (Vol. 4, Issue 3) Peer-ReviewedABSTRACT Background Protection from malaria with insecticide-treated bednets (ITNs) during pregnancy is widely advocated, but evidence of benefit has been inconsistent. We undertook a systematic review of randomised...
- 4From: PLoS Medicine. (Vol. 4, Issue 3) Peer-ReviewedABSTRACT Background HIV-1 control in sub-Saharan Africa requires cost-effective and sustainable programmes that promote behaviour change and reduce cofactor sexually transmitted infections (STIs) at the population...
- 5From: PLoS Medicine. (Vol. 4, Issue 3) Peer-ReviewedABSTRACT Background In chronic HIV infection, antiretroviral therapy-induced normalization of CD[4.sup.+] T cell counts (immune reconstitution [IR]) is associated with a decreased incidence of opportunistic diseases....
- 6From: PLoS Medicine. (Vol. 4, Issue 3) Peer-ReviewedThe PLoS Medicine Editors The past decade has seen the establishment of the systematic review (SR) as one of the cornerstones of evidence-based medicine. The value of SRs to researchers, practitioners, and policy...
- 7From: PLoS Medicine. (Vol. 4, Issue 3) Peer-ReviewedThe paper by Ooms et al. [1] is very timely and stimulating. It launches the debate on how to . nance globally the right to health care in low-income countries. This is a most welcome step, going beyond the usual...
- 8From: PLoS Medicine. (Vol. 4, Issue 3) Peer-ReviewedABSTRACT Background Previous studies have been unable to characterise the association between physical activity and obesity, possibly because most relied on inaccurate measures of physical activity and obesity....
- 9From: PLoS Medicine. (Vol. 4, Issue 3) Peer-ReviewedBackground Epidemiological studies may be subject to selective reporting, but empirical evidence thereof is limited. We empirically evaluated the extent of selection of significant results and large effect sizes in a...
- 10From: PLoS Medicine. (Vol. 4, Issue 3) Peer-ReviewedABSTRACT Background The Kassena-Nankana District of northern Ghana lies in the African "meningitis belt" where epidemics of meningococcal meningitis have been reoccurring every eight to 12 years for the last 100...
- 11From: PLoS Medicine. (Vol. 4, Issue 3) Peer-ReviewedPatients have gained unprecedented levels of control over their medical care, including prospective control over what treatments they will receive if they lose the ability to make decisions. The landmark Cruzan and...
- 12From: PLoS Medicine. (Vol. 4, Issue 3) Peer-ReviewedWhen expatriate doctors from developed countries working in sub-Saharan Africa suggest to the local doctors and midwives that symphysiotomies should sometimes be done, they are silenced neither with quotations from the...
- 13From: PLoS Medicine. (Vol. 4, Issue 3) Peer-ReviewedABSTRACT Background Glucose-6-phosphate dehydrogenase (G6PD) is important in the control of oxidant stress in erythrocytes, the host cells for Plasmodium falciparum. Mutations in this enzyme produce X-linked deficiency...
- 14From: PLoS Medicine. (Vol. 4, Issue 3) Peer-ReviewedABSTRACT Background Malaria vaccines based on the 19-kDa region of merozoite surface protein 1 ([MSP-1.sub.19]) derived from the 3D7 strain of Plasmodium falciparum are being tested in clinical trials in Africa....
- 15From: PLoS Medicine. (Vol. 4, Issue 3) Peer-ReviewedVaccination is a crucial tool for preventing and controlling disease, but its use has been plagued by controversies worldwide [1-6]. In this article, I look at the controversy surrounding the immunization program against...
- 16From: PLoS Medicine. (Vol. 4, Issue 3) Peer-ReviewedPharmaceuticals make a major to contribution to health. However, as noted by Ess et al., in Europe over the last 20 years, expenditure on pharmaceuticals has grown faster than the gross national product, and Wagner and...
- 17From: PLoS Medicine. (Vol. 4, Issue 3) Peer-ReviewedABSTRACT Background Loperamide is widely used in adults for acute diarrhea. However, its use in children has been discouraged by the World Health Organization and the American Academy of Pediatrics owing to concerns...
- 18From: PLoS Medicine. (Vol. 4, Issue 3) Peer-ReviewedABSTRACT Background Lung cancer is the leading cause of cancer-related death worldwide. Currently, tumor, node, metastasis (TNM) staging provides the most accurate prognostic parameter for patients with non-small...
- 19From: PLoS Medicine. (Vol. 4, Issue 3) Peer-ReviewedBackground Malaysia's stable health care system is facing challenges with increasing medicine costs. To investigate these issues a survey was carried out to evaluate medicine prices, availability, affordability, and...
- 20From: PLoS Medicine. (Vol. 4, Issue 3) Peer-ReviewedIn response to the case study by Kass et al. on research ethics committees (RECs) in Africa [1], the following additional information is provided about capacity building for research ethics in South Africa. South...