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- Search Terms:ISSN: 15491277AndISSN: 15491676AndVolume Number: 9AndIssue Number: 1AndStart Page: e1001157AndDate: 2012 Revise Search
- 1From: PLoS Medicine. (Vol. 9, Issue 1) Peer-ReviewedBackground: In countries of high endemicity of the soil-transmitted helminth parasites Ascaris lumbricoides, Trichuris trichiura, and hookworm, preventive chemotherapy (i.e., repeated administration of anthelmintic...
- 2From: PLoS Medicine. (Vol. 9, Issue 1) Peer-ReviewedThe Burden of MNS Disorders Mental, neurological, and substance use disorders and related disabilities (MNS disorders) are leading contributors to the burden of disease globally. (The term MNS is a relatively new...
- 3From: PLoS Medicine. (Vol. 9, Issue 1) Peer-ReviewedBackground: Considerable investments are being made in commercial electronic prescribing systems (e-prescribing) in many countries. Few studies have measured or evaluated their effectiveness at reducing prescribing...
- 4From: PLoS Medicine. (Vol. 9, Issue 1) Peer-ReviewedIntroduction and Rationale The introduction of routine immunisation with pneumococcal conjugate vaccines (PCVs) in developing countries is expected to significantly reduce childhood deaths [1]. The 7-valent...
- 5From: PLoS Medicine. (Vol. 9, Issue 1) Peer-ReviewedBackground: It is now a decade since the World Trade Organization (WTO) adopted the "Declaration on the TRIPS Agreement and Public Health" at its 4th Ministerial Conference in Doha. Many anticipated that these actions...
- 6From: PLoS Medicine. (Vol. 9, Issue 1) Peer-ReviewedBackground: Care advances in the United States (US) have led to improved survival of children with neurological impairment (NI). Children with NI may account for an increasing proportion of hospital resources. However,...
- 7From: PLoS Medicine. (Vol. 9, Issue 1) Peer-ReviewedIntroduction Current malaria elimination guidelines are based on the concept that malaria transmission becomes heterogeneous in the later phases of malaria elimination [1]. In the pre-elimination and elimination...
- 8From: PLoS Medicine. (Vol. 9, Issue 1) Peer-ReviewedBackground: The World Health Organization (WHO) has called for the "virtual elimination" of pediatric HIV: a mother-to-child HIV transmission (MTCT) risk of less than 5%. We investigated uptake of prevention of MTCT...
- 9From: PLoS Medicine. (Vol. 9, Issue 1) Peer-ReviewedBackground: The RTS,S malaria vaccine may soon be licensed. Models of impact of such vaccines have mainly considered deployment via the World Health Organization's Expanded Programme on Immunization (EPI) in areas of...
- 10From: PLoS Medicine. (Vol. 9, Issue 1) Peer-ReviewedIntroduction Complaints about the ethics of medical ghostwriting have increased in the last decade, but little has changed [1-14]. Corruption of the scientific literature through ghostwriting persists in medicine due...
- 11From: PLoS Medicine. (Vol. 9, Issue 1) Peer-ReviewedAlmost three years ago [1], PLoS Medicine announced that the journal would both reflect and draw attention to the world's health priorities. In so doing, our intention was to give the highest priority to studies and...
- 12From: PLoS Medicine. (Vol. 9, Issue 1) Peer-ReviewedOnce widely supported, the "war on drugs" has become increasingly controversial, as the political realization sinks in that it has wrought more harm than good. The Global Commission on Drug Policy, a collection of...
- 13From: PLoS Medicine. (Vol. 9, Issue 1) Peer-ReviewedBackground: Venous thrombosis is a common disease with a high mortality rate shortly after the event. However, details on long-term mortality in these patients are lacking. The aim of this study was to determine...
- 14From: PLoS Medicine. (Vol. 9, Issue 1) Peer-ReviewedBackground: Neuropsychiatric conditions comprise 14% of the global burden of disease and 30% of all noncommunicable disease. Despite the existence of cost-effective interventions, including administration of...
- 15From: PLoS Medicine. (Vol. 9, Issue 1) Peer-ReviewedBackground: The population of Japan has achieved the longest life expectancy in the world. To further improve population health, consistent and comparative evidence on mortality attributable to preventable risk factors...