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- 1From: PLoS Medicine. (Vol. 9, Issue 2) Peer-ReviewedBackground: In late-stage palliative cancer care, relief of distress and optimized well-being become primary treatment goals. Great strides have been made in improving and researching pharmacological treatments for...
- 2From: PLoS Medicine. (Vol. 9, Issue 2) Peer-ReviewedBackground: Sepsis accounts for up to 15% of an estimated 3.3 million annual neonatal deaths globally. We used data collected from the control arms of three previously conducted cluster-randomised controlled trials in...
- 3From: PLoS Medicine. (Vol. 9, Issue 2) Peer-ReviewedBackground: Rapid demographic ageing is a growing public health issue in many low- and middle-income countries (LAMICs). Mild cognitive impairment (MCI) is a construct frequently used to define groups of people who may...
- 4From: PLoS Medicine. (Vol. 9, Issue 2) Peer-ReviewedMalaria and Narrowing the Communication Gap in Africa Across many malaria-endemic areas in rural Africa, health systems are weak, infrastructure is poor, and poverty is widespread. Traditionally, the communication...
- 5From: PLoS Medicine. (Vol. 9, Issue 2) Peer-ReviewedBackground: Clostridium difficile infection (CDI) is a leading cause of antibiotic-associated diarrhoea and is endemic in hospitals, hindering the identification of sources and routes of transmission based on shared...
- 6From: PLoS Medicine. (Vol. 9, Issue 2) Peer-ReviewedBackground: Even in low and middle income countries most deaths occur in older adults. In Europe, the effects of better education and home ownership upon mortality seem to persist into old age, but these effects may not...
- 7From: PLoS Medicine. (Vol. 9, Issue 2) Peer-ReviewedBackground: Malaria remains a disease of devastating global impact, killing more than 800,000 people every year--the vast majority being children under the age of 5. While effective therapies are available, if malaria...
- 8From: PLoS Medicine. (Vol. 9, Issue 2) Peer-ReviewedOne of the great achievements of modern science and technology is that life expectancy has increased considerably [1]. While we cannot ignore the steep regional disparities that exist across the globe [2], for many...
- 9From: PLoS Medicine. (Vol. 9, Issue 2) Peer-ReviewedBackground: Moderately elevated blood levels of homocysteine are weakly correlated with coronary heart disease (CHD) risk, but causality remains uncertain. When folate levels are low, the TT genotype of the common C677T...
- 10From: PLoS Medicine. (Vol. 9, Issue 2) Peer-ReviewedHighly Active Antiretroviral Therapy: Treatment as Prevention of HIV/AIDS The global AIDS pandemic has taken a major toll worldwide whether it is in terms of human suffering, lives lost, or economic impact. At the...
- 11From: PLoS Medicine. (Vol. 9, Issue 2) Peer-ReviewedAntiretroviral therapy (ART) saves lives and prevents new HIV/AIDS infections [1]. Successful efforts to increase the number of people receiving ART create important public health challenges, some of which may be...
- 12From: PLoS Medicine. (Vol. 9, Issue 2) Peer-ReviewedIntroduction The lifetime prevalence of mental disorders has been estimated to be between 12.2% and 48.6% globally [1]. More than 13% of the global burden of disease for mental disorders is due to neuropsychiatric...
- 13From: PLoS Medicine. (Vol. 9, Issue 2) Peer-ReviewedClostridium difficile Infection: Difficult to Control? Clostridium difficile can cause large-scale outbreaks of diarrhea [1,2]. Significant progress has recently been achieved to improve treatment of symptomatic C....