Showing Results for
- Academic Journals (11)
Search Results
- 11
Academic Journals
- 11
- Search Terms:ISSN: 15491277AndISSN: 15491676AndVolume Number: 7AndIssue Number: 12AndStart Page: e1000385AndDate: 2010 Revise Search
- 1From: PLoS Medicine. (Vol. 7, Issue 12) Peer-ReviewedBackground: Neonatal intensive care improves survival, but is associated with high costs and disability amongst survivors. Recent health reform in Mexico launched a new subsidized insurance program, necessitating...
- 2From: PLoS Medicine. (Vol. 7, Issue 12) Peer-ReviewedBackground: Insurance coverage of tobacco cessation medications increases their use and reduces smoking prevalence in a population. However, uncertainty about the impact of this coverage on health care utilization and...
- 3From: PLoS Medicine. (Vol. 7, Issue 12) Peer-ReviewedBackground: Although antiretroviral therapy (ART) improves survival in persons with cryptococcal meningitis (CM) and AIDS, ART frequently elicits HIV immune reconstitution inflammatory syndrome (IRIS), an exaggerated...
- 4From: PLoS Medicine. (Vol. 7, Issue 12) Peer-ReviewedThe scourge of tuberculosis (TB) in prisons remains a persistent problem; rates among inmates remain much higher--from 5 to up to 50 times--than those of national averages across both the developed and the developing...
- 5From: PLoS Medicine. (Vol. 7, Issue 12) Peer-ReviewedIn traditional clinical and public health structures, information flows through a hierarchy of providers and local or national authorities, who then communicate with the public via periodic announcements [1]. Meanwhile,...
- 6From: PLoS Medicine. (Vol. 7, Issue 12) Peer-ReviewedBackground: The identification of prognostic tumor biomarkers that also would have potential as therapeutic targets, particularly in patients with early stage disease, has been a long sought-after goal in the management...
- 7From: PLoS Medicine. (Vol. 7, Issue 12) Peer-ReviewedBackground: It is widely thought that widespread antibiotic use selects for community antibiotic resistance, though this has been difficult to prove in the setting of a community-randomized clinical trial. In this...
- 8From: PLoS Medicine. (Vol. 7, Issue 12) Peer-ReviewedIntroduction A renewed focus on health systems strengthening (HSS) in global health has emerged in recent years. The World Health Organization (WHO) and others have promoted HSS as essential to attaining the...
- 9From: PLoS Medicine. (Vol. 7, Issue 12) Peer-ReviewedBackground: Transmission of tuberculosis (TB) in prisons has been reported worldwide to be much higher than that reported for the corresponding general population. Methods and Findings: A systematic review has been...
- 10From: PLoS Medicine. (Vol. 7, Issue 12) Peer-ReviewedBackground: The new 2010 World Health Organization (WHO) HIV treatment guidelines recommend earlier antiretroviral therapy (ART) initiation (CD4<350 cells/[micro]l instead of CD4<200 cells/[micro]l), multiple sequential...
- 11From: PLoS Medicine. (Vol. 7, Issue 12) Peer-ReviewedBackground: A number of epidemiologic studies have observed an association between secondhand smoke (SHS) exposure and pediatric invasive bacterial disease (IBD) but the evidence has not been systematically reviewed. We...