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- 1From: PLoS Medicine. (Vol. 8, Issue 3) Peer-ReviewedBackground: Economic growth is widely perceived as a major policy instrument in reducing childhood undernutrition in India. We assessed the association between changes in state per capita income and the risk of...
- 2From: PLoS Medicine. (Vol. 8, Issue 3) Peer-ReviewedBackground: Pregnancy in women with systemic lupus erythematosus (SLE) or antiphospholipid antibodies (APL Ab)-- autoimmune conditions characterized by complement-mediated injury--is associated with increased risk of...
- 3From: PLoS Medicine. (Vol. 8, Issue 3) Peer-ReviewedAmong the many challenges facing institutional review boards (IRBs) is to predict whether the activities and interventions proposed in a clinical trial protocol are likely to yield net harm or net benefit for trial...
- 4From: PLoS Medicine. (Vol. 8, Issue 3) Peer-ReviewedBackground: Each year, 10%-20% of patients with tuberculosis (TB) in low- and middle-income countries present with previously treated TB and are empirically started on a World Health Organization (WHO)-recommended...
- 5From: PLoS Medicine. (Vol. 8, Issue 3) Peer-ReviewedBackground: Nevirapine and lamivudine given to mothers are transmitted to infants via breastfeeding in quantities sufficient to have biologic effects on the virus; this may lead to an increased risk of a breastfed...
- 6From: PLoS Medicine. (Vol. 8, Issue 3) Peer-ReviewedThe paper by Jones-Lopez et al. in this week's PLoS Medicine [1] (hereinafter ''the Uganda study'') illustrates the challenge of conducting research in resource-constrained settings. At the time the study was proposed...
- 7From: PLoS Medicine. (Vol. 8, Issue 3) Peer-ReviewedIt has been a couple of months now since the withdrawal of access via HINARI to medical journals in Bangladesh by several publishers caused an upset in the medical publishing world [1]. HINARI (Health Internetwork...
- 8From: PLoS Medicine. (Vol. 8, Issue 3) Peer-ReviewedBackground: Injection drug use (IDU) and heterosexual virus transmission both contribute to the growing mixed HIV epidemics in Eastern Europe and Central Asia. In Ukraine--chosen in this study as a representative...
- 9From: PLoS Medicine. (Vol. 8, Issue 3) Peer-ReviewedThere is growing recognition that the capacity to conduct research and to share the resulting knowledge is fundamental to all aspects of human development, from improving health care delivery to increasing food...
- 10From: PLoS Medicine. (Vol. 8, Issue 3) Peer-ReviewedBackground: Behavioral interventions that promote adherence to antiretroviral medications may decrease HIV treatment failure. Antiretroviral treatment programs in sub-Saharan Africa confront increasing financial...
- 11From: PLoS Medicine. (Vol. 8, Issue 3) Peer-ReviewedBackground: Effective strategies are needed for the prevention of mother-to-child HIV transmission (PMTCT) in resource- limited settings. The Kisumu Breastfeeding Study was a single-arm open label trial conducted...
- 12From: PLoS Medicine. (Vol. 8, Issue 3) Peer-ReviewedIntroduction The recent successes of genome-wide association studies and the promises of whole genome sequencing fuel interest in the translation of this new wave of basic genetic knowledge to health care practice....
- 13From: PLoS Medicine. (Vol. 8, Issue 3) Peer-ReviewedBackground: Even after the Women's Health Initiative (WHI) found that the risks of menopausal hormone therapy (hormone therapy) outweighed benefit for asymptomatic women, about half of gynecologists in the United States...
- 14From: PLoS Medicine. (Vol. 8, Issue 3) Peer-ReviewedIntroduction First-in-human clinical trials represent a critical juncture in the translation of laboratory discoveries. However, because they involve the greatest degree of uncertainty at any point in the drug...
- 15From: PLoS Medicine. (Vol. 8, Issue 3) Peer-ReviewedBackground: Diarrhea remains a leading cause of mortality among young children in low- and middle-income countries. Although the evidence for individual diarrhea prevention and treatment interventions is solid, the...
- 16From: PLoS Medicine. (Vol. 8, Issue 3) Peer-ReviewedIndia's rapid economic growth, after the initiation of market-oriented reforms two decades ago, has been the subject of considerable international attention. However, this accelerated economic growth has not been...
- 17From: PLoS Medicine. (Vol. 8, Issue 3) Peer-ReviewedTuberculosis: A Global Threat Tuberculosis (TB) remains one of the major causes of infectious morbidity and mortality globally, claiming millions of lives every year. Approximately one-third of the world's population...