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- 1From: PLoS Medicine. (Vol. 9, Issue 4) Peer-ReviewedBackground: Understanding how food insecurity among women gives rise to differential patterning in HIV risks is critical for policy and programming in resource-limited settings. This is particularly the case in Brazil,...
- 2From: PLoS Medicine. (Vol. 9, Issue 4) Peer-ReviewedIn anticipation of the 2012 World Health Report, this paper was commissioned to help contextualize and critically reflect on the theme of "no health without research." Introduction Forty years ago Archie Cochrane,...
- 3From: PLoS Medicine. (Vol. 9, Issue 4) Peer-ReviewedBackground: Only about half the studies that have collected information on the relevance of women's height and body mass index to their risk of developing ovarian cancer have published their results, and findings are...
- 4From: PLoS Medicine. (Vol. 9, Issue 4) Peer-ReviewedIn this issue of PLoS Medicine, Doshi and colleagues argue that the full clinical trial reports of authorized drugs should be made publicly available to enable independent re-analysis of drugs' benefits and risks [1]....
- 5From: PLoS Medicine. (Vol. 9, Issue 4) Peer-ReviewedBackground: Human exposure to silica dust is very common in both working and living environments. However, the potential long-term health effects have not been well established across different exposure situations....
- 6From: PLoS Medicine. (Vol. 9, Issue 4) Peer-ReviewedIntroduction The international community has come to recognize the critical importance of strengthening health systems as a whole to the achievement of major global health goals. Ranging from the overarching health...
- 7From: PLoS Medicine. (Vol. 9, Issue 4) Peer-ReviewedOn March 13, 2012 PLoS Medicine published an analysis by Lisa Cosgrove and Sheldon Krimsky [1] that examined the financial conflicts of interest of members of the American Psychiatric Association (APA) responsible for...
- 8From: PLoS Medicine. (Vol. 9, Issue 4) Peer-ReviewedBackground: Ongoing conflict in the Darfur region of Sudan has resulted in a severe humanitarian crisis. We sought to characterize the nature and geographic scope of allegations of human rights violations perpetrated...
- 9From: PLoS Medicine. (Vol. 9, Issue 4) Peer-ReviewedBackground: The UK Prospective Diabetes Study showed that metformin decreases mortality compared to diet alone in overweight patients with type 2 diabetes mellitus. Since then, it has been the first-line treatment in...
- 10From: PLoS Medicine. (Vol. 9, Issue 4) Peer-ReviewedBackground: At present, there is insufficient evidence to guide appropriate management of women with preterm prelabor rupture of membranes (PPROM) near term. Methods and Findings: We conducted an open-label...
- 11From: PLoS Medicine. (Vol. 9, Issue 4) Peer-ReviewedDisease Burden Estimates for Infectious Diseases Baseline comprehensive estimates of infectious disease (ID) burden are needed for effective planning and prioritizing of limited public health resources. Over the last...
- 12From: PLoS Medicine. (Vol. 9, Issue 4) Peer-ReviewedBackground: Global programs of anti-HIV treatment depend on sustained laboratory capacity to assess treatment initiation thresholds and treatment response over time. Currently, there is no valid alternative to CD4 count...
- 13From: PLoS Medicine. (Vol. 9, Issue 4) Peer-ReviewedRegulatory approval of new drugs is assumed to reflect a judgment that a medication's benefits outweigh its harms. Despite this, controversy over approved drugs is common. If sales can be considered a proxy for utility,...