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PMCID: PMC1518677 The PLoS Medicine Debate Should Society Allow Research Ethics Boards to Be Run As For-Profit Enterprises? Ezekiel J Emanuel, Trudo Lemmens, and Carl Elliot PMCID: PMC1518668 Essays The State of Child Health and Human Rights in Nepal Sonal Singh, Erik Bøhler, Khagendra Dahal, and Edward Mills PMCID: PMC1483907 The Clinical Applications of a Systems Approach Andrew C Ahn, Muneesh Tewari, Chi-Sang Poon, and Russell S Phillips PMCID: PMC1459481 Lessons from Our Patients: Development of a Warm Autopsy Program Kathleen Oare Lindell, Judith A Erlen, and Naftali Kaminski PMCID: PMC1472556 Do Antidepressants Cure or Create Abnormal Brain States? Joanna Moncrieff and David Cohen PMCID: PMC1472553 Regulation of Clinical Research Sponsored by Pharmaceutical Companies: A Proposal Julio Sotelo PMCID: PMC1489183 Perspectives Immunoprophylaxis against Mother-to-Child Transmission of HIV-1 Miroslaw K Gorny and Susan Zolla-Pazner PMCID: PMC1513047 A New Mouse Model to Study Acquired Lymphedema Martin Schneider, Annelii Ny, Carmen Ruiz de Almodovar, and Peter Carmeliet PMCID: PMC1513046 The “Ultimate Prize” for Big Tobacco: Opening the Chinese Cigarette Market by Cigarette Smuggling Thomas E Novotny PMCID: PMC1502150 Anti-Interferon Auto-Antibodies in Autoimmune Polyendocrinopathy Syndrome Type 1 Michael Levin PMCID: PMC1475656 Health in Action Moving Toward Assured Access to Treatment in Microbicide Trials Anna Forbes PMCID: PMC1489187 Reducing Disparities in the Burden of Cancer: The Role of Patient Navigators Tisha Fowler, Caryn Steakley, A. Roland Garcia, Jennifer Kwok, and L. Michelle Bennett PMCID: PMC1489186 Building Surgical Research Capacity in Africa: The Ptolemy Project Miliard Derbew, Massey Beveridge, Andrew Howard, and Niall Byrne PMCID: PMC1489182 Policy Forum Enrolling Adolescents in Research on HIV and Other Sensitive Issues: Lessons from South Africa Jerome Amir Singh, Salim S Abdool Karim, Quarraisha Abdool Karim, Koleka Mlisana, Carolyn Williamson, Clive Gray, Michelle Govender, and Andrew Gray PMCID: PMC1435780 A Survey of Public Funding of Cancer Research in the European Union Seth Eckhouse and Richard Sullivan PMCID: PMC1513045 Training and HIV-Treatment Scale-Up: Establishing an Implementation Research Agenda Elizabeth A McCarthy, Megan E O'Brien, and William R Rodriguez PMCID: PMC1483909 Research in Translation Silencing Viral Infection Derek M Dykxhoorn and Judy Lieberman PMCID: PMC1518680 Research Articles Embryonic Pig Pancreatic Tissue Transplantation for the Treatment of Diabetes Smadar Eventov-Friedman, Dalit Tchorsh, Helena Katchman, Elias Shezen, Anna Aronovich, Gil Hecht, Benjamin Dekel, Gideon Rechavi, Bruce R Blazar, Ilan Feine, Orna Tal, Enrique Freud, and Yair Reisner PMCID: PMC1479387 The BARD1 Cys557Ser Variant and Breast Cancer Risk in Iceland Simon N Stacey, Patrick Sulem, Oskar T Johannsson, Agnar Helgason, Julius Gudmundsson, Jelena P Kostic, Kristleifur Kristjansson, Thora Jonsdottir, Helgi Sigurdsson, Jon Hrafnkelsson, Jakob Johannsson, Thorarinn Sveinsson, Gardar Myrdal, Hlynur Niels Grimsson, Jon T Bergthorsson, Laufey T Amundadottir, Jeffrey R Gulcher, Unnur Thorsteinsdottir, Augustine Kong, and Kari Stefansson PMCID: PMC1479388 “Key to the Future”: British American Tobacco and Cigarette Smuggling in China Kelley Lee and Jeff Collin PMCID: PMC1502159 Predicting Survival within the Lung Cancer Histopathological Hierarchy Using a Multi-Scale Genomic Model of Development Hongye Liu, Alvin T Kho, Isaac S Kohane, and Yao Sun PMCID: PMC1483910 Human Monoclonal Antibody Combination against SARS Coronavirus: Synergy and Coverage of Escape Mutants Jan ter Meulen, Edward N van den Brink, Leo L. M Poon, Wilfred E Marissen, Cynthia S. W Leung, Freek Cox, Chung Y Cheung, Arjen Q Bakker, Johannes A Bogaards, Els van Deventer, Wolfgang Preiser, Hans Wilhelm Doerr, Vincent T Chow, John de Kruif, Joseph S. M Peiris, and Jaap Goudsmit PMCID: PMC1483912 Uptake of Workplace HIV Counselling and Testing: A Cluster-Randomised Trial in Zimbabwe Elizabeth L Corbett, Ethel Dauya, Ronnie Matambo, Yin Bun Cheung, Beauty Makamure, Mary T Bassett, Steven Chandiwana, Shungu Munyati, Peter R Mason, Anthony E Butterworth, Peter Godfrey-Faussett, and Richard J Hayes PMCID: PMC1483908 Cost-Effectiveness of Treating Multidrug-Resistant Tuberculosis Stephen C Resch, Joshua A Salomon, Megan Murray, and Milton C Weinstein PMCID: PMC1483913 Inflammatory Manifestations of Experimental Lymphatic Insufficiency Raymond Tabibiazar, Lauren Cheung, Jennifer Han, Jeffrey Swanson, Andreas Beilhack, Andrew An, Soheil S Dadras, Ned Rockson, Smita Joshi, Roger Wagner, and Stanley G Rockson PMCID: PMC1502157 Insensitivity of Paediatric HIV-1 Subtype C Viruses to Broadly Neutralising Monoclonal Antibodies Raised against Subtype B Elin Solomonovna Gray, Tammy Meyers, Glenda Gray, David Charles Montefiori, and Lynn Morris PMCID: PMC1502151 Advice from a Medical Expert through the Internet on Queries about AIDS and Hepatitis: Analysis of a Pilot Experiment Javier Marco, Raquel Barba, Juan E Losa, Carlos Martínez de la Serna, María Sainz, Isabel Fernández Lantigua, and Jose Luis de la Serna PMCID: PMC1483911 Routine HIV Testing in Botswana: A Population-Based Study on Attitudes, Practices, and Human Rights Concerns Sheri D Weiser, Michele Heisler, Karen Leiter, Fiona Percy-de Korte, Sheila Tlou, Sonya DeMonner, Nthabiseng Phaladze, David R Bangsberg, and Vincent Iacopino PMCID: PMC1502152 The Potential Impact of Male Circumcision on HIV in Sub-Saharan Africa Brian G Williams, James O Lloyd-Smith, Eleanor Gouws, Catherine Hankins, Wayne M Getz, John Hargrove, Isabelle de Zoysa, Christopher Dye, and Bertran Auvert PMCID: PMC1489185 Genome Microevolution of Chikungunya Viruses Causing the Indian Ocean Outbreak Isabelle Schuffenecker, Isabelle Iteman, Alain Michault, Séverine Murri, Lionel Frangeul, Marie-Christine Vaney, Rachel Lavenir, Nathalie Pardigon, Jean-Marc Reynes, François Pettinelli, Leon Biscornet, Laure Diancourt, Stéphanie Michel, Stéphane Duquerroy, Ghislaine Guigon, Marie-Pascale Frenkiel, Anne-Claire Bréhin, Nadège Cubito, Philippe Desprès, Frank Kunst, Félix A Rey, Hervé Zeller, and Sylvain Brisse PMCID: PMC1463904
MPLW515L Is a Novel Somatic Activating Mutation in Myelofibrosis with Myeloid Metaplasia
Yana Pikman, Benjamin H Lee, Thomas Mercher, Elizabeth McDowell, Benjamin L Ebert, Maricel Gozo, Adam Cuker, Gerlinde Wernig, Sandra Moore, Ilene Galinsky, Daniel J DeAngelo, Jennifer J Clark, Stephanie J Lee, Todd R Golub, Martha Wadleigh, D. Gary Gilliland, and Ross L Levine PMCID: PMC1502153 Anti-Interferon Autoantibodies in Autoimmune Polyendocrinopathy Syndrome Type 1 Anthony Meager, Kumuthini Visvalingam, Pärt Peterson, Kaidi Möll, Astrid Murumägi, Kai Krohn, Petra Eskelin, Jaakko Perheentupa, Eystein Husebye, Yoshihisa Kadota, and Nick Willcox PMCID: PMC1475653 Mutation of von Hippel–Lindau Tumour Suppressor and Human Cardiopulmonary Physiology Thomas G Smith, Jerome T Brooks, George M Balanos, Terence R Lappin, D. Mark Layton, Dawn L Leedham, Chun Liu, Patrick H Maxwell, Mary F McMullin, Christopher J McNamara, Melanie J Percy, Christopher W Pugh, Peter J Ratcliffe, Nick P Talbot, Marilyn Treacy, and Peter A Robbins PMCID: PMC1479389 Correspondence and Other Communications Confessions of a Disease Monger James Phelps PMCID: PMC1518679 Fairness Creams in South Asia—A Case of Disease Mongering? P. Ravi Shankar, Bishnu Rath Giri, and Subish Palaian PMCID: PMC1518681 Disease Mongering: One of the Hidden Consequences Kenneth Gillman PMCID: PMC1518684 Defining Disease in the Information Age Olavo B Amaral PMCID: PMC1518688 There Is No Such Thing as a Psychiatric Disorder/Disease/Chemical Imbalance Fred Baughman PMCID: PMC1518691 The Newest Mania: Seeing Disease Mongering Everywhere S. Nassir Ghaemi PMCID: PMC1518696 The Best Hysterias: Author's Response to Ghaemi David Healy PMCID: PMC1518689 Questionable Advertising of Psychotropic Medications and Disease Mongering Jeffrey R Lacasse and Jonathan Leo PMCID: PMC1518694 Taiwan's Potential to Assist Developing Countries to Combat Infectious Diseases Govindasamy Agoramoorthy and Minna J Hsu PMCID: PMC1518698 Correction Correction: Advertising in Medical Journals: Should Current Practices Change? Adriane Fugh-Berman, Karen Alladin, and Jarva Chow PMCID: PMC1489184 Corrects: Adriane Fugh-Berman, et al. Advertising in Medical Journals: Should Current Practices Change? PLoS Med. 2006 June; 3(6): e130. |
