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- 1From: PLoS Medicine. (Vol. 4, Issue 9) Peer-ReviewedHypertrophic scar formation is a major clinical problem in the developing and industrialized worlds. Burn injuries, traumatic injuries, and surgical procedures can give rise to exuberant scarring that results in...
- 2From: PLoS Medicine. (Vol. 4, Issue 9) Peer-ReviewedABSTRACT Background End-stage chronic kidney disease is associated with striking excesses of cardiovascular mortality, but it is uncertain to what extent renal function is related to risk of subsequent coronary heart...
- 3From: PLoS Medicine. (Vol. 4, Issue 9) Peer-ReviewedCorrection for: Cockburn R, Newton PN, Agyarko EK, Akunyili D, White NJ (2005) The Global Threat of Counterfeit Drugs: Why Industry and Governments Must Communicate the Dangers. PLoS Med 2(4): e100....
- 4From: PLoS Medicine. (Vol. 4, Issue 9) Peer-ReviewedA study is published reporting that a new drug works better in black people than in whites. Is this an informative study or is it based on archaic, incorrect, even harmful notions of human difference? Homo sapiens has...
- 5From: PLoS Medicine. (Vol. 4, Issue 9) Peer-ReviewedABSTRACT Background Abstinence-plus (comprehensive) interventions promote sexual abstinence as the best means of preventing HIV, but also encourage condom use and other safer-sex practices. Some critics of...
- 6From: PLoS Medicine. (Vol. 4, Issue 9) Peer-ReviewedCivil society organizations (CSOs) are nonprofit organizations that aim to further the interests of the communities they serve. Driven to protect and empower the vulnerable, CSOs work in areas such as community...
- 7From: PLoS Medicine. (Vol. 4, Issue 9) Peer-ReviewedThe Grand Challenges in Global Health (GCGH) initiative is a major effort to achieve scientific breakthroughs against diseases that kill millions of people each year in the world's poorest countries. With 44 projects,...
- 8From: PLoS Medicine. (Vol. 4, Issue 9) Peer-ReviewedAlthough DOTS is advocated as the best approach for global tuberculosis control, the variable success of this strategy [1] should help us in learning which problems we might face while adopting the same strategy for the...
- 9From: PLoS Medicine. (Vol. 4, Issue 9) Peer-ReviewedIn this issue of PLoS Medicine, Lundy Braun and colleagues from the Race, Medicine, and Science Workshop discuss "the trouble with race" [1]. They argue that the heterogeneity of racial and ethnic categories (and a lack...
- 10From: PLoS Medicine. (Vol. 4, Issue 9) Peer-ReviewedABSTRACT Background The acute respiratory distress syndrome (ARDS), a clinical complication of severe acute lung injury (ALI) in humans, is a leading cause of morbidity and mortality in critically ill patients. ALI...
- 11From: PLoS Medicine. (Vol. 4, Issue 9) Peer-ReviewedThe Trouble with Race Is it good medical practice for physicians to "eyeball" a patient's race when assessing their medical status or even to ask them to identify their race? This question was captured in a 2005...
- 12From: PLoS Medicine. (Vol. 4, Issue 9) Peer-ReviewedABSTRACT Background Pharmaceutical costs are the fastest-growing health-care expense in most developed countries. Higher drug costs have been shown to negatively impact patient outcomes. Studies suggest that doctors...
- 13From: PLoS Medicine. (Vol. 4, Issue 9) Peer-ReviewedWe would like to congratulate Kenneth R. Fernandez Taylor for bringing up such an important but avoided issue in developing countries like Pakistan [1]. The growing debate regarding long working hours of postgraduate...
- 14From: PLoS Medicine. (Vol. 4, Issue 9) Peer-ReviewedThe Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation (http://www.grandchallengesgh.org), the United States National Institutes of Health (http://grants1.nih.gov/grants/index.cfm), the United Kingdom Wellcome Trust...
- 15From: PLoS Medicine. (Vol. 4, Issue 9) Peer-ReviewedABSTRACT Background The risk of venous thrombosis is approximately 2- to 4-fold increased after air travel, but the absolute risk is unknown. The objective of this study was to assess the absolute risk of venous...
- 16From: PLoS Medicine. (Vol. 4, Issue 9) Peer-ReviewedSpam, the term used to describe unsolicited e-mail received from an unknown sender without expressed consent of the recipient [1], has become a major problem for communications through the Internet. Since the delivery of...
- 17From: PLoS Medicine. (Vol. 4, Issue 9) Peer-Reviewed"What is the purpose of publications? ... [The] purpose of data is to support, directly or indirectly, the marketing of our product." [1] From Ghost Writing to Ghost Management There are many reports of medical...
- 18From: PLoS Medicine. (Vol. 4, Issue 9) Peer-ReviewedABSTRACT Background Rheumatoid arthritis (RA) is a chronic autoimmune disorder affecting ~1% of the population. The disease results from the interplay between an individual's genetic background and unknown...
- 19From: PLoS Medicine. (Vol. 4, Issue 9) Peer-ReviewedABSTRACT Background Controversy exists about the most appropriate treatment for high-risk superficial (stage T1; grade G3) bladder cancer. Immediate cystectomy offers the best chance for survival but may be...
- 20From: PLoS Medicine. (Vol. 4, Issue 9) Peer-ReviewedAbstinence until marriage has emerged as a primary policy goal in efforts to promote adolescent sexual and reproductive health--in the United States and increasingly world-wide. While few would argue with abstinence as a...