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- 1From: PLoS Medicine. (Vol. 7, Issue 2) Peer-ReviewedBackground Medical ghostwriting, the practice of pharmaceutical companies secretly authoring journal articles published under the byline of academic researchers, is a troubling phenomenon because it is dangerous to...
- 2From: PLoS Medicine. (Vol. 7, Issue 2) Peer-ReviewedBackground: CD4 cell count is a strong predictor of the subsequent risk of AIDS or death in HIV-infected patients initiating combination antiretroviral therapy (cART). It is not known whether the rate of CD4 cell...
- 3From: PLoS Medicine. (Vol. 7, Issue 2) Peer-ReviewedBackground: Survival to older childhood with untreated, vertically acquired HIV infection, which was previously considered extremely unusual, is increasingly well described. However, the overall impact on adolescent...
- 4From: PLoS Medicine. (Vol. 7, Issue 2) Peer-ReviewedThis is the last in a series of articles highlighting the delivery of "packages of care" for mental health disorders in low- and middle-income countries. Packages of care are combinations of treatments aimed at...
- 5From: PLoS Medicine. (Vol. 7, Issue 2) Peer-ReviewedBackground: Intrapartum and neonatal single-dose nevirapine (NVP) reduces the risk of mother-to-child HIV transmission but also induces viral resistance to non-nucleoside reverse transcriptase inhibitor (NNRTI) drugs....
- 6From: PLoS Medicine. (Vol. 7, Issue 2) Peer-ReviewedIntroduction As with problem drinking, gambling, and narcotics use [1-9] population studies show consistently that a large majority of smokers who permanently stop smoking do so without any form of assistance...
- 7From: PLoS Medicine. (Vol. 7, Issue 2) Peer-ReviewedBackground: Diabetes imposes a substantial burden globally in terms of premature mortality, morbidity, and health care costs. Estimates of economic outcomes associated with diabetes are essential inputs to policy...
- 8From: PLoS Medicine. (Vol. 7, Issue 2) Peer-ReviewedBackground: Detection of outbreaks of hospital-acquired infections is often based on simple rules, such as the occurrence of three new cases of a single pathogen in two weeks on the same ward. These rules typically...
- 9From: PLoS Medicine. (Vol. 7, Issue 2) Peer-ReviewedThis past month PLoS Medicine published two original analyses on smoking, the single greatest preventable risk for poor health and death in the developed world, and an increasingly important risk factor in the...
- 10From: PLoS Medicine. (Vol. 7, Issue 2) Peer-ReviewedBackground: With the rapid expansion of antiretroviral therapy (ART) services in sub-Saharan Africa there is growing recognition of the importance of fertility and childbearing among HIV-infected women. However there...
- 11From: PLoS Medicine. (Vol. 7, Issue 2) Peer-ReviewedWith the publication of the JUPITER trial [1] there is now considerable interest in measuring high-sensitivity C-reactive protein (hsCRP). While treatment with rosuvastatin decreased the chance of clinically important...
- 12From: PLoS Medicine. (Vol. 7, Issue 2) Peer-ReviewedIntroduction Despite advances in mapping the geographical distribution and intensity of malaria transmission [1,2], the ability to provide strategic, evidence-based advice for malaria control programmes remains...
- 13From: PLoS Medicine. (Vol. 7, Issue 2) Peer-ReviewedIntroduction Publishing health research is a thriving, and increasing, enterprise. On any given month about 63,000 new articles are indexed in PubMed, the United States National Library of Medicine's public access...
- 14From: PLoS Medicine. (Vol. 7, Issue 2) Peer-ReviewedBackground: Evidence suggests that cost sharing (i.e., copayments and deductibles) decreases health expenditures but also reduces essential care. Value-based insurance design (VBID) has been proposed to encourage...