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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 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...
- 3From: 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...
- 4From: PLoS Medicine. (Vol. 6, Issue 1) Peer-ReviewedBackground Delays in accessing care for malaria and other diseases can lead to disease progression, and user fees are a known barrier to accessing health care. Governments are introducing free health care to improve...
- 5From: 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...
- 6From: 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...
- 7From: 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...
- 8From: 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...
- 9From: PLoS Medicine. (Vol. 6, Issue 1) Peer-ReviewedIn the late 1990s and early 21st century, some public health officials in the Western world believed that Africans would never be compliant with antiretroviral therapy (ART) because the continent's uneducated, illiterate...
- 10From: 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...
- 11From: 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...
- 12From: 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...
- 13From: 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...
- 14From: PLoS Medicine. (Vol. 6, Issue 1) Peer-ReviewedRheumatoid arthritis (RA) is a chronic inflammatory disorder affecting joints, often with severe and disabling consequences. Although cells and intracellular signals characterizing inflamed tissue in RA are not...
- 15From: PLoS Medicine. (Vol. 6, Issue 1) Peer-ReviewedBackground Glioblastoma multiforme (GBM) is the most aggressive primary brain tumor that carries a 5-y survival rate of 5%. Attempts at eliciting a clinically relevant anti-GBM immune response in brain tumor patients...
- 16From: PLoS Medicine. (Vol. 6, Issue 1) Peer-ReviewedWe have recently embarked on a collaborative project to improve estimates of the global burden of injuries. This commentary invites individuals and organizations to contribute to building this global public good by...
- 17From: 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...
- 18From: PLoS Medicine. (Vol. 6, Issue 1) Peer-ReviewedBackground Decades into the pandemic, the public health value of HIV surveillance is obvious. Surveillance is traditionally depicted as the "radar" or "eyes" of public health [1,2]. The World Health Organization (WHO)...
- 19From: PLoS Medicine. (Vol. 6, Issue 1) Peer-ReviewedBackground to the debate: Current guidelines recommend that all fever episodes in African children be treated presumptively with antimalarial drugs. But declining malarial transmission in parts of sub-Saharan Africa,...
- 20From: 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...