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- 1From: PLoS Medicine. (Vol. 8, Issue 4) Peer-ReviewedInstitutional Relationships and Global Health The institutional relationships that exist in global health are a growing area of inquiry. This has been most evident in work examining corporate involvement in health,...
- 2From: PLoS Medicine. (Vol. 8, Issue 4) Peer-ReviewedBackground: We investigated the effect of the 7-valent pneumococcal conjugate vaccine (PCV7) programme in England on serotype-specific carriage and invasive disease to help understand its role in serotype replacement...
- 3From: PLoS Medicine. (Vol. 8, Issue 4) Peer-ReviewedThe unrelenting rise of antimicrobial resistance (AMR) constitutes a serious threat to health worldwide. In the last decade, challenging multi-resistant bacteria have expanded while new antimicrobial drug development...
- 4From: PLoS Medicine. (Vol. 8, Issue 4) Peer-ReviewedIntroduction Nearly all experts agree that insecticide-treated mosquito nets (ITNs) are a lifesaving intervention, supported by strong evidence from carefully conducted trials that show ITNs to be efficacious at...
- 5From: PLoS Medicine. (Vol. 8, Issue 4) Peer-ReviewedThis month PLoS Medicine publishes a research article reporting that medical doctors and mental health professionals from the US Department of Defense working at the Guantanamo Bay prison concealed or failed to document...
- 6From: PLoS Medicine. (Vol. 8, Issue 4) Peer-ReviewedBackground: Despite regulatory restrictions, off-label marketing of pharmaceutical products has been common in the US. However, the scope of off-label marketing remains poorly characterized. We developed a typology for...
- 7From: PLoS Medicine. (Vol. 8, Issue 4) Peer-ReviewedThe humanitarian response to major disasters is often marred by duplication and fragmentation, resulting in insufficient resources and services reaching the victims [1]. This is particularly critical when it comes to...
- 8From: PLoS Medicine. (Vol. 8, Issue 4) Peer-ReviewedBackground: Ageing is associated with increased risk of poor health and functional decline. Uncertainties about the health-related benefits of nutrition and physical activity for older people have precluded their...
- 9From: PLoS Medicine. (Vol. 8, Issue 4) Peer-ReviewedBackground: In developing countries referral of severely ill children from primary care to district hospitals is common, but hospital care is often of poor quality. However, strategies to change multiple paediatric care...
- 10From: PLoS Medicine. (Vol. 8, Issue 4) Peer-ReviewedThere is little question that the international spread of antimicrobial resistance (AMR) is an alarming development that the global public health community must confront as a matter of some priority. Reducing the...
- 11From: PLoS Medicine. (Vol. 8, Issue 4) Peer-ReviewedBackground: In developing countries, the private sector provides a substantial proportion of primary health care to low income groups for communicable and non-communicable diseases. These providers are therefore central...
- 12From: PLoS Medicine. (Vol. 8, Issue 4) Peer-ReviewedBackground: In 2006, Brazil began routine immunization of infants <15 wk of age with a single-strain rotavirus vaccine. We evaluated whether the rotavirus vaccination program was associated with declines in childhood...
- 13From: PLoS Medicine. (Vol. 8, Issue 4) Peer-ReviewedBackground: In the wake of the September 11, 2001 attacks on the US, the government authorized the use of "enhanced interrogation" techniques that were previously recognized as torture. While the complicity of US health...
- 14From: PLoS Medicine. (Vol. 8, Issue 4) Peer-ReviewedLack of Progress on All Millennium Development Goals for Women The international community recently reviewed 10 years of progress towards the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs). The outcome document of the High...
- 15From: PLoS Medicine. (Vol. 8, Issue 4) Peer-ReviewedIt is widely believed that people in low- and middle-income countries (LMICs) are in poor health because they cannot reach medical services on time. Predicated on this belief, much of global health policy focuses on the...