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- 1From: PLoS Medicine. (Vol. 7, Issue 7) Peer-ReviewedIntroduction A recent World Health Organization (WHO) report found a complex array of positive and negative impacts of global health initiatives (GHIs) on existing health systems [1]. The report's examination of...
- 2From: PLoS Medicine. (Vol. 7, Issue 7) Peer-ReviewedBackground: Early repolarization pattern (ERP) on electrocardiogram was associated with idiopathic ventricular fibrillation and sudden cardiac arrest in a case-control study and with cardiovascular mortality in a Finnish...
- 3From: PLoS Medicine. (Vol. 7, Issue 7) Peer-ReviewedBackground: The quality and quantity of individuals' social relationships has been linked not only to mental health but also to both morbidity and mortality. Objectives: This meta-analytic review was conducted to...
- 4From: PLoS Medicine. (Vol. 7, Issue 7) Peer-ReviewedBackground: Traditionally, non-small cell lung cancer is treated as a single disease entity in terms of systemic therapy. Emerging evidence suggests the major subtypes--adenocarcinoma (AC) and squamous cell carcinoma...
- 5From: PLoS Medicine. (Vol. 7, Issue 7) Peer-ReviewedIn June, PLoS Medicine published a series of articles on interventions to tackle the burden of maternal, neonatal, and child mortality in sub-Saharan Africa and how to implement those interventions most effectively...
- 6From: PLoS Medicine. (Vol. 7, Issue 7) Peer-ReviewedBackground: Infectious diseases often demonstrate heterogeneity of transmission among host populations. This heterogeneity reduces the efficacy of control strategies, but also implies that focusing control strategies on...
- 7From: PLoS Medicine. (Vol. 7, Issue 7) Peer-ReviewedThe crisis of avoidable maternal, newborn, and child deaths in developing countries is currently a major focus for the global health community (Box 1), and it will be one of the leading issues discussed at the September...
- 8From: PLoS Medicine. (Vol. 7, Issue 7) Peer-ReviewedBackground: Pancreatic ductal adenocarcinoma (PDAC) remains a lethal disease. For patients with localized PDAC, surgery is the best option, but with a median survival of less than 2 years and a difficult and prolonged...
- 9From: PLoS Medicine. (Vol. 7, Issue 7) Peer-ReviewedDescription of Cases Patient 1: A 77-y-old male from Ho Chi Minh City (HCMC), Viet Nam, with a history of (compensated) cirrhosis and noninsulin-dependent diabetes, presented to a district hospital with a 3-d history of...
- 10From: PLoS Medicine. (Vol. 7, Issue 7) Peer-ReviewedBackground: World Health Organization (WHO)/Joint United Nations Programme on AIDS (UNAIDS) has recommended adult male circumcision (AMC) for the prevention of heterosexually acquired HIV infection in men from...
- 11From: PLoS Medicine. (Vol. 7, Issue 7) Peer-ReviewedScience to Action Gap in Maternal, Neonatal, and Child Health in Sub-Saharan Africa Over 13,000 mothers, newborns, and children die every day in sub-Saharan Africa--almost nine deaths every minute [1,2]. Despite being...
- 12From: PLoS Medicine. (Vol. 7, Issue 7) Peer-ReviewedIntroduction In many African countries, HIV has reversed previously recorded declines in child mortality. Worldwide, children account for 18% of HIV-related deaths and 15% of HIV infections each year [1-3], an...
- 13From: PLoS Medicine. (Vol. 7, Issue 7) Peer-ReviewedBackground: As international efforts to increase the coverage of artemisinin-based combination therapy in public health sectors gather pace, concerns have been raised regarding their continued indiscriminate presumptive...
- 14From: PLoS Medicine. (Vol. 7, Issue 7) Peer-ReviewedIntroduction Several high-income countries, including the United Kingdom, are tackling "health inequalities" [1]. In 2009, the various UK governments announced large-scale programmes to screen and treat cardiovascular...
- 15From: PLoS Medicine. (Vol. 7, Issue 7) Peer-ReviewedPriority Setting--Implicit or Explicit? Priority setting is required in every health care system. It guides investments in health care and health research, and respects resource constraints. It happens continuously,...
- 16From: PLoS Medicine. (Vol. 7, Issue 7) Peer-ReviewedIntroduction Medical devices encompass nearly every medical product that does not achieve its intended purpose through chemical action, from the simple (tongue blades) to the complex (MRI machines), and from the safe...
- 17From: PLoS Medicine. (Vol. 7, Issue 7) Peer-ReviewedThis paper is part of a PLoS Medicine series on maternal, neonatal, and child health in Africa. This PLoS Medicine series began by outlining how much we fail mothers, newborns, and children in Africa by not...