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- 1From: PLoS Medicine. (Vol. 6, Issue 3) Peer-ReviewedChildhood diarrhoea still claims nearly 2 million lives each year and remains responsible for 18% of all child deaths [1,2]. Regardless of this, research interest in this disease has been steadily decreasing after the...
- 2From: PLoS Medicine. (Vol. 6, Issue 3) Peer-ReviewedBackground Advanced paternal age (APA) is associated with an increased risk of neurodevelopmental disorders such as autism and schizophrenia, as well as with dyslexia and reduced intelligence. The aim of this study was...
- 3From: PLoS Medicine. (Vol. 6, Issue 3) Peer-ReviewedCase Descriptions Patient 1. A 48-year-old male construction worker, with no preceding medical illnesses, was admitted to the intensive care unit of a hospital in Hanoi. For a few days prior to admission he experienced...
- 4From: PLoS Medicine. (Vol. 6, Issue 3) Peer-ReviewedIntroduction There has been relatively little apparent interest in the quality of medicines used to treat common life-threatening diseases despite the logical implication that poor-quality medicines will reduce the...
- 5From: PLoS Medicine. (Vol. 6, Issue 3) Peer-ReviewedThere has been increasing concern about suicide in active service members. In the US military, suicide is the second most common cause of death [I]. Although mental health problems have clearly been associated with...
- 6From: PLoS Medicine. (Vol. 6, Issue 3) Peer-ReviewedBackground Few studies have examined suicide risk in individuals once they have left the military. We aimed to investigate the rate, timing, and risk factors for suicide in all those who had left the UK Armed Forces...
- 7From: PLoS Medicine. (Vol. 6, Issue 3) Peer-ReviewedBackground Efficient allocation of resources to intervene against malaria requires a detailed understanding of the contemporary spatial distribution of malaria risk. It is exactly 40 y since the last global map of...
- 8From: PLoS Medicine. (Vol. 6, Issue 3) Peer-ReviewedBackground Important differences exist in the diagnosis of malnutrition when comparing the 2006 World Health Organization (WHO) Child Growth Standards and the 1977 National Center for Health Statistics (NCHS)...
- 9From: PLoS Medicine. (Vol. 6, Issue 3) Peer-ReviewedThe past decade has witnessed growing interest in genetic predisposition to common diseases, and along with rapid advancements in high-throughput genotyping technology, has resulted in a tremendous amount of published...
- 10From: PLoS Medicine. (Vol. 6, Issue 3) Peer-ReviewedBackground Institutional tuberculosis (TB) transmission is an important public health problem highlighted by the HIV/AIDS pandemic and the emergence of multidrug- and extensively drug-resistant TB. Effective TB...
- 11From: PLoS Medicine. (Vol. 6, Issue 3) Peer-ReviewedBoth maternal and paternal ages are increasing in the developed world. The average age of mothers at time of childbirth has increased from 26.4 years in 1974 to 29.3 years in 2002, while the average age of fathers has...
- 12From: PLoS Medicine. (Vol. 6, Issue 3) Peer-ReviewedThe PLoS Medicine Editors In a cohort study in this month's PLoS Medicine, Nav Kapur (University of Manchester, United Kingdom) and colleagues report that young men (24 years and under) who had left the UK Armed Forces...
- 13From: PLoS Medicine. (Vol. 6, Issue 3) Peer-ReviewedApproximately 36% of East Asians (Japanese, Chinese, and Koreans) show a characteristic physiological response to drinking alcohol that includes facial flushing (see Figure 1), nausea, and tachycardia [1] . This...