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- 1From: PLoS Medicine. (Vol. 4, Issue 4) Peer-ReviewedIt is only about 25 years since the abolition or abandonment of TB sanatoria in South Africa. It is likely that there are people in South Africa who are familiar with the idea of isolation of TB patients from the general...
- 2From: PLoS Medicine. (Vol. 4, Issue 4) Peer-ReviewedABSTRACT Background Lethal injection for execution was conceived as a comparatively humane alternative to electrocution or cyanide gas. The current protocols are based on one improvised by a medical examiner and an...
- 3From: PLoS Medicine. (Vol. 4, Issue 4) Peer-ReviewedWe read with interest the article published in PLoS Medicine by Pogue-Geile et al. [1] reporting an apparent mutation in the KIAA0992 splice variant of the Palladin gene in a family previously reported to have a high...
- 4From: PLoS Medicine. (Vol. 4, Issue 4) Peer-ReviewedABSTRACT Background The presence of tumor-specific mutations in the cancer genome represents a potential opportunity for pharmacologic intervention to therapeutic benefit. Unfortunately, many classes of oncoproteins...
- 5From: PLoS Medicine. (Vol. 4, Issue 4) Peer-ReviewedIntroduction Social science literature on malaria and its control is abundant. However, nearly all the publications focus on children under the age of five. Even in gender-oriented literature, women are depicted as...
- 6From: PLoS Medicine. (Vol. 4, Issue 4) Peer-ReviewedABSTRACT Background Sales visits by pharmaceutical representatives ("drug detailing") are common, but little is known about the content of these visits or about the impact of visit characteristics on prescribing...
- 7From: PLoS Medicine. (Vol. 4, Issue 4) Peer-ReviewedThe Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria ("the Global Fund") was created to fight three of the world's most devastating diseases. Since its creation in 2002, it has struggled with the difficult task of...
- 8From: PLoS Medicine. (Vol. 4, Issue 4) Peer-ReviewedABSTRACT Background Antigenemia is commonly detected in rotavirus-infected children. Although rotavirus RNA has been detected in serum, definitive proof of rotavirus viremia has not been shown. We aimed to analyze a...
- 9From: PLoS Medicine. (Vol. 4, Issue 4) Peer-ReviewedABSTRACT Background Macrosomia is associated with considerable neonatal and maternal morbidity. Factors that predict macrosomia are poorly understood. The increased rate of macrosomia in the offspring of pregnant...
- 10From: PLoS Medicine. (Vol. 4, Issue 4) Peer-ReviewedWe agree that there is "no time for denial or complacency" when it comes to the spread of MDR- and XDR-TB in South Africa. Unfortunately, the attention the recent PloS Medicine article [1] generated in South Africa and...
- 11From: PLoS Medicine. (Vol. 4, Issue 4) Peer-ReviewedType 2 diabetes is a very common metabolic disease and its incidence is increasing rapidly worldwide [1]. Despite five to six decades of extensive investigation, the basic physiologic defect responsible for type 2...
- 12From: PLoS Medicine. (Vol. 4, Issue 4) Peer-ReviewedSince the 1950s, rotavirus has been recognized in veterinary circles as an important cause of diarrhoea in young livestock and poultry. In the 1970s, the virus was found to be a cause of infantile diarrhoea in humans...
- 13From: PLoS Medicine. (Vol. 4, Issue 4) Peer-ReviewedABSTRACT Background Early menarche tends to be preceded by rapid infancy weight gain and is associated with increased childhood and adult obesity risk. As age at menarche is a heritable trait, we hypothesised that...
- 14From: PLoS Medicine. (Vol. 4, Issue 4) Peer-ReviewedThe number of children worldwide with hearing impairment is increasing, and these children face a number of obstacles and burdens, given that spoken language is the predominant medium of communication and social...
- 15From: PLoS Medicine. (Vol. 4, Issue 4) Peer-ReviewedIn 2004, health-care providers in the United States consumed $US1.9 trillion, or about 16% of the gross domestic product. By 2010, the cost of health care is predicted to exceed 20% of the US gross domestic product [1]....
- 16From: PLoS Medicine. (Vol. 4, Issue 4) Peer-ReviewedABSTRACT Background Neuromyelitis optica (NMO) is a demyelinating disease of the central nervous system (CNS) of putative autoimmune aetiology. Early discrimination between multiple sclerosis (MS) and NMO is...
- 17From: PLoS Medicine. (Vol. 4, Issue 4) Peer-ReviewedABSTRACT Background The epidermal growth factor receptor (EGFR) gene is the prototype member of the type I receptor tyrosine kinase (TK) family and plays a pivotal role in cell proliferation and differentiation....
- 18From: PLoS Medicine. (Vol. 4, Issue 4) Peer-ReviewedABSTRACT Background Ischaemic stroke in persons of European descent has a genetic basis, but whether the stroke-susceptibility alleles, the strength of any association, and the extent of their attributable risks are...
- 19From: PLoS Medicine. (Vol. 4, Issue 4) Peer-ReviewedIt's my job to figure out what a physician's price is. For some it's dinner at the finest restaurants, for others it's enough convincing data to let them prescribe confidently and for others it's my attention and...
- 20From: PLoS Medicine. (Vol. 4, Issue 4) Peer-ReviewedThe authors should be commended for a thoughtful and stimulating article [1]. However, we wish to clarify the historical record about the use of the term XDR-TB. The concept of XDR-TB as a distinct nosological entity was...