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- 1From: PLoS Medicine. (Vol. 6, Issue 2) Peer-ReviewedOn July 31, 2008, the Constitutional Court of Colombia (the Court) handed down a decision (T-760/2008) that ordered a dramatic restructuring of the country's health system [1]. The judgment came as the culmination of a...
- 2From: PLoS Medicine. (Vol. 6, Issue 2) Peer-ReviewedBackground Psychotic illness following childbirth is a relatively rare but severe condition with unexplained etiology. The aim of this study was to investigate the impact of maternal background characteristics and...
- 3From: PLoS Medicine. (Vol. 6, Issue 2) Peer-ReviewedA range of psychological disorders occur in women in the postpartum period. These include "the blues", which occurs in the first days after birth and which is very common and self-limiting; severe psychoses often...
- 4From: PLoS Medicine. (Vol. 6, Issue 2) Peer-ReviewedCorrection for: Ansah EK, Narh-Bana S, Asiamah S, Dzordzordzi V, Biantey K, et al. (2009) Effect of removing direct payment for health care on utilisation and health outcomes in Ghanaian children: A randomised...
- 5From: PLoS Medicine. (Vol. 6, Issue 2) Peer-ReviewedMalaria has been eliminated from a large part of the world. By the mid-twentieth century both North America and Europe were free of the disease, although both had suffered greatly during the prior century [1,2]. While a...
- 6From: PLoS Medicine. (Vol. 6, Issue 2) Peer-ReviewedThe need for new pharmaceutical tools to prevent and treat neglected diseases is widely accepted [1]. The creation of a vaccine for HIV/AIDS, more effective diagnostics for tuberculosis (TB), and better treatments for...
- 7From: PLoS Medicine. (Vol. 6, Issue 2) Peer-ReviewedDESCRIPTION of CASE A 21-year-old pregnant woman, gravida 2 para 1, presented with hypertension and proteinuria at 20 weeks of gestation. She had a history of pre-eclampsia in her first pregnancy one year ago. During...
- 8From: PLoS Medicine. (Vol. 6, Issue 2) Peer-ReviewedFrom a clinical perspective, epithelial ovarian cancer is something of an enigma. Despite improvements in aggressive debulking surgery and the initial good response of patients to platinum-based chemotherapies, there has...
- 9From: PLoS Medicine. (Vol. 6, Issue 2) Peer-ReviewedBackground Neural stem cells are currently being investigated as potential therapies for neurodegenerative diseases, stroke, and trauma. However, concerns have been raised over the safety of this experimental...
- 10From: PLoS Medicine. (Vol. 6, Issue 2) Peer-ReviewedBackground Detection and quantification of hepatitis C virus (HCV) RNA is integral to diagnostic and therapeutic regimens. All molecular assays target the viral 5'-noncoding region (5'-NCR), and all show...
- 11From: PLoS Medicine. (Vol. 6, Issue 2) Peer-ReviewedBackground to the debate: Ghostwriting occurs when someone makes substantial contributions to a manuscript without attribution or disclosure. It is considered bad publication practice in the medical sciences, and some...
- 12From: PLoS Medicine. (Vol. 6, Issue 2) Peer-ReviewedThe PLoS Medicine Editors A large and growing literature details the many ways by which research and the subsequent published record can be inappropriately influenced, including publication bias [1], outcome reporting...
- 13From: PLoS Medicine. (Vol. 6, Issue 2) Peer-ReviewedBackground Drug development is ideally a logical sequence in which information from small early studies (Phase I) is subsequently used to inform and plan larger, more definitive studies (Phases II-IV). Phase I trials...
- 14From: PLoS Medicine. (Vol. 6, Issue 2) Peer-ReviewedBackground Ovarian cancer has a poor prognosis due to advanced stage at presentation and either intrinsic or acquired resistance to classic cytotoxic drugs such as platinum and taxoids. Recent large clinical trials...
- 15From: PLoS Medicine. (Vol. 6, Issue 2) Peer-ReviewedBackground Maternal mortality is a major public-health problem in developing countries. Extreme differences in maternal mortality rates between developed and developing countries indicate that most of these deaths are...
- 16From: PLoS Medicine. (Vol. 6, Issue 2) Peer-ReviewedResistant TB Is a Serious Threat to Global Health Tuberculosis (TB) remains the leading cause of death from a largely preventable and curable infectious disease, with an estimated 1.7 million deaths in 2006 [1]. Global...
- 17From: PLoS Medicine. (Vol. 6, Issue 2) Peer-ReviewedMaking sense of rapidly evolving evidence on genetic associations is crucial to making genuine advances in human genomics and the eventual integration of this information in the practice of medicine and public health....