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Volume 3(4);  April 2006
Editorial
Development and Demography: A Relationship That Requires Research
PLoS Med. 2006 April; 3(4): e211. Published online 2006 April 25. doi: 10.1371/journal.pmed.0030211.
PMCID: PMC1455442
Synopses
Birth Rate Increases following Improved Rural Water Supply
PLoS Med. 2006 April; 3(4): e133. Published online 2006 February 14. doi: 10.1371/journal.pmed.0030133.
PMCID: PMC1361780
RNA Interference to Suppress Flaviviral Encephalitis
PLoS Med. 2006 April; 3(4): e139. Published online 2006 February 14. doi: 10.1371/journal.pmed.0030139.
PMCID: PMC1361778
Nicotinamide: A Way to Prevent Fetal Alcohol Syndrome?
PLoS Med. 2006 April; 3(4): e147. Published online 2006 February 21. doi: 10.1371/journal.pmed.0030147.
PMCID: PMC1370923
GENOMOS Study Finds Weak Links between COL1A1 Polymorphism, BMD, and Fracture Risk
PLoS Med. 2006 April; 3(4): e152. Published online 2006 February 21. doi: 10.1371/journal.pmed.0030152.
PMCID: PMC1370921
Alport Syndrome: From Pathogenesis to a Potential Therapy
PLoS Med. 2006 April; 3(4): e154. Published online 2006 March 7. doi: 10.1371/journal.pmed.0030154.
PMCID: PMC1391979
Influenza-Associated Hospitalization in a Subtropical City
PLoS Med. 2006 April; 3(4): e163. Published online 2006 March 7. doi: 10.1371/journal.pmed.0030163.
PMCID: PMC1391980
Do Variants in the GST Detoxification Genes Affect the Risk of Lung Cancer?
PLoS Med. 2006 April; 3(4): e174. Published online 2006 March 7. doi: 10.1371/journal.pmed.0030174.
PMCID: PMC1391976
Antiretroviral Use in Resource-Poor Settings: Modeling Its Impact
PLoS Med. 2006 April; 3(4): e179. Published online 2006 March 14. doi: 10.1371/journal.pmed.0030179.
PMCID: PMC1395347
Essays
Bigger and Better: How Pfizer Redefined Erectile Dysfunction
Joel Lexchin
PLoS Med. 2006 April; 3(4): e132. Published online 2006 April 11. doi: 10.1371/journal.pmed.0030132.
PMCID: PMC1434483
Combating Disease Mongering: Daunting but Nonetheless Essential
Iona Heath
PLoS Med. 2006 April; 3(4): e146. Published online 2006 April 11. doi: 10.1371/journal.pmed.0030146.
PMCID: PMC1434491
Female Sexual Dysfunction: A Case Study of Disease Mongering and Activist Resistance
Leonore Tiefer
PLoS Med. 2006 April; 3(4): e178. Published online 2006 April 11. doi: 10.1371/journal.pmed.0030178.
PMCID: PMC1434501
Medicine Goes to School: Teachers as Sickness Brokers for ADHD
Christine B Phillips
PLoS Med. 2006 April; 3(4): e182. Published online 2006 April 11. doi: 10.1371/journal.pmed.0030182.
PMCID: PMC1434504
The Latest Mania: Selling Bipolar Disorder
David Healy
PLoS Med. 2006 April; 3(4): e185. Published online 2006 April 11. doi: 10.1371/journal.pmed.0030185.
PMCID: PMC1434505
Pharmaceutical Marketing and the Invention of the Medical Consumer
Kalman Applbaum
PLoS Med. 2006 April; 3(4): e189. Published online 2006 April 11. doi: 10.1371/journal.pmed.0030189.
PMCID: PMC1434507
The Fight against Disease Mongering: Generating Knowledge for Action
Ray Moynihan and David Henry
PLoS Med. 2006 April; 3(4): e191. Published online 2006 April 11. doi: 10.1371/journal.pmed.0030191.
PMCID: PMC1434508
Perspectives
Influenza in Tropical Regions
Cécile Viboud, Wladimir J Alonso, and Lone Simonsen
PLoS Med. 2006 April; 3(4): e89. Published online 2006 March 7. doi: 10.1371/journal.pmed.0030089.
PMCID: PMC1391975
Modeling the Impact of Antiretroviral Use in Developing Countries
Stefano M Bertozzi and Sergio Bautista-Arredondo
PLoS Med. 2006 April; 3(4): e148. Published online 2006 March 14. doi: 10.1371/journal.pmed.0030148.
PMCID: PMC1395348
Development Projects to Improve Maternal and Child Health: Assessing the Impact
Yemane Berhane
PLoS Med. 2006 April; 3(4): e192. Published online 2006 April 18. doi: 10.1371/journal.pmed.0030192.
PMCID: PMC1435783
Protection against Prenatal Alcohol-Induced Damage
Catherine Y Spong
PLoS Med. 2006 April; 3(4): e196. Published online 2006 April 18. doi: 10.1371/journal.pmed.0030196.
PMCID: PMC1435787
Policy Forum
Cholinesterase Inhibitors: Drugs Looking for a Disease?
Marina Maggini, Nicola Vanacore, and Roberto Raschetti
PLoS Med. 2006 April; 3(4): e140. Published online 2006 April 11. doi: 10.1371/journal.pmed.0030140.
PMCID: PMC1434488
Giving Legs to Restless Legs: A Case Study of How the Media Helps Make People Sick
Steven Woloshin and Lisa M Schwartz
PLoS Med. 2006 April; 3(4): e170. Published online 2006 April 11. doi: 10.1371/journal.pmed.0030170.
PMCID: PMC1434499
Disease Mongering in Drug Promotion: Do Governments Have a Regulatory Role?
Barbara Mintzes
PLoS Med. 2006 April; 3(4): e198. Published online 2006 April 11. doi: 10.1371/journal.pmed.0030198.
PMCID: PMC1434509
Research Articles
An Energy-Saving Development Initiative Increases Birth Rate and Childhood Malnutrition in Rural Ethiopia
Mhairi A Gibson and Ruth Mace
PLoS Med. 2006 April; 3(4): e87. Published online 2006 February 14. doi: 10.1371/journal.pmed.0030087.
PMCID: PMC1361781
Large-Scale Evidence for the Effect of the COLIA1 Sp1 Polymorphism on Osteoporosis Outcomes: The GENOMOS Study
Stuart H Ralston, André G Uitterlinden, Maria Luisa Brandi, Susana Balcells, Bente L Langdahl, Paul Lips, Roman Lorenc, Barbara Obermayer-Pietsch, Serena Scollen, Mariona Bustamante, Lise Bjerre Husted, Alisoun H Carey, Adolfo Diez-Perez, Alison M Dunning, Alberto Falchetti, Elzbieta Karczmarewicz, Marcin Kruk, Johannes P. T. M. van Leeuwen, Joyce B. J. van Meurs, Jon Mangion, Fiona E. A McGuigan, Leonardo Mellibovsky, Francesca del Monte, Huibert A. P Pols, Jonathan Reeve, David M Reid, Wilfried Renner, Fernando Rivadeneira, Natasja M. van Schoor, Rachael E Sherlock, John P. A Ioannidis, and for the GENOMOS investigators
PLoS Med. 2006 April; 3(4): e90. Published online 2006 February 21. doi: 10.1371/journal.pmed.0030090.
PMCID: PMC1370920
Five Glutathione S-Transferase Gene Variants in 23,452 Cases of Lung Cancer and 30,397 Controls: Meta-Analysis of 130 Studies
Zheng Ye, Honglin Song, Julian P. T Higgins, Paul Pharoah, and John Danesh
PLoS Med. 2006 April; 3(4): e91. Published online 2006 March 7. doi: 10.1371/journal.pmed.0030091.
PMCID: PMC1391981
A Single siRNA Suppresses Fatal Encephalitis Induced by Two Different Flaviviruses
Priti Kumar, Sang Kyung Lee, Premlata Shankar, and N Manjunath
PLoS Med. 2006 April; 3(4): e96. Published online 2006 February 14. doi: 10.1371/journal.pmed.0030096.
PMCID: PMC1361782
Stage-Specific Action of Matrix Metalloproteinases Influences Progressive Hereditary Kidney Disease
Michael Zeisberg, Mona Khurana, Velidi H Rao, Dominic Cosgrove, Jean-Philippe Rougier, Michelle C Werner, Charles F Shield, III, Zena Werb, and Raghu Kalluri
PLoS Med. 2006 April; 3(4): e100. Published online 2006 March 7. doi: 10.1371/journal.pmed.0030100.
PMCID: PMC1391977
Nicotinamide Protects against Ethanol-Induced Apoptotic Neurodegeneration in the Developing Mouse Brain
Alessandro Ieraci and Daniel G Herrera
PLoS Med. 2006 April; 3(4): e101. Published online 2006 February 21. doi: 10.1371/journal.pmed.0030101.
PMCID: PMC1370925
Influenza-Associated Hospitalization in a Subtropical City
Chit Ming Wong, Lin Yang, King Pan Chan, Gabriel M Leung, Kwok H Chan, Yi Guan, Tai Hing Lam, Anthony Johnson Hedley, and Joseph S. M Peiris
PLoS Med. 2006 April; 3(4): e121. Published online 2006 March 7. doi: 10.1371/journal.pmed.0030121.
PMCID: PMC1391978
Modelling the Impact of Antiretroviral Use in Resource-Poor Settings
Rebecca F Baggaley, Geoff P Garnett, and Neil M Ferguson
PLoS Med. 2006 April; 3(4): e124. Published online 2006 March 14. doi: 10.1371/journal.pmed.0030124.
PMCID: PMC1395349
Correspondence and Other Communications
Syphilis: A Forgotten Priority
Damian Walker and Godfrey Walker
PLoS Med. 2006 April; 3(4): e204. Published online 2006 April 25. doi: 10.1371/journal.pmed.0030204.
PMCID: PMC1455453
Mischievous Odds Ratios
William Steinsmith
PLoS Med. 2006 April; 3(4): e205. Published online 2006 April 25. doi: 10.1371/journal.pmed.0030205.
PMCID: PMC1455462
The Need for an Individual Approach to Lung Cancer Treatment
Hisayuki Shigematsu, Shinichi Toyooka, and Makoto Suzuki
PLoS Med. 2006 April; 3(4): e206. Published online 2006 April 25. doi: 10.1371/journal.pmed.0030206.
PMCID: PMC1455468
Authors' Reply
Peter J Hotez, Albert B Sabin, David H Molyneux, Alan Fenwick, Eric Ottesen, Sonia Ehrlich Sachs, and Jeffrey D Sachs
PLoS Med. 2006 April; 3(4): e207. Published online 2006 April 25. doi: 10.1371/journal.pmed.0030207.
PMCID: PMC1455471
Authors' Reply
Frits Rosendaal and Pieter H Reitsma
PLoS Med. 2006 April; 3(4): e210. Published online 2006 April 25. doi: 10.1371/journal.pmed.0030210.
PMCID: PMC1455474
Awareness and Attitudes about Disease Mongering among Medical and Pharmaceutical Students
C. Jairaj Kumar, Abhizith Deoker, Ashwini Kumar, Arunachalam Kumar, and B. M Hegde
PLoS Med. 2006 April; 3(4): e213. Published online 2006 April 11. doi: 10.1371/journal.pmed.0030213.
PMCID: PMC1434511
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