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Volume 3(9);  September 2006
Correspondence
Is It Just a Marker for Increased Care?
Richard Hockey
PLoS Med. 2006 September; 3(9): e406. Published online 2006 September 26. doi: 10.1371/journal.pmed.0030406.
PMCID: PMC1576331
Authors' Response to Hockey and Reidak
Julio Licinio
PLoS Med. 2006 September; 3(9): e407. Published online 2006 September 26. doi: 10.1371/journal.pmed.0030407.
PMCID: PMC1576332
Were Eli Lilly Unaware of This Study?
Aasa Reidak
PLoS Med. 2006 September; 3(9): e408. Published online 2006 September 26. doi: 10.1371/journal.pmed.0030408.
PMCID: PMC1576333
Crossing the Language Limitations
Zhenglun Pan and Jin Gao
PLoS Med. 2006 September; 3(9): e410. Published online 2006 September 26. doi: 10.1371/journal.pmed.0030410.
PMCID: PMC1576334
Are Nonhuman Primates Good Models for SARS?
Robert J Hogan
PLoS Med. 2006 September; 3(9): e411. Published online 2006 September 26. doi: 10.1371/journal.pmed.0030411.
PMCID: PMC1576335
Snakebite: Sociocultural Anthropological Bias
Arunachalam Kumar
PLoS Med. 2006 September; 3(9): e412. Published online 2006 September 26. doi: 10.1371/journal.pmed.0030412.
PMCID: PMC1576336
What Guidelines? Never Saw Them!
A. D Gowdy
PLoS Med. 2006 September; 3(9): e413. Published online 2006 September 26. doi: 10.1371/journal.pmed.0030413.
PMCID: PMC1576337
Authors' Response to Gowdy
Atle Fretheim and Andrew D Oxman
PLoS Med. 2006 September; 3(9): e414. Published online 2006 September 26. doi: 10.1371/journal.pmed.0030414.
PMCID: PMC1576338
Authors' Response to Hogan
Bart L Haagmans and Albert D. M. E Osterhaus
PLoS Med. 2006 September; 3(9): e415. Published online 2006 September 26. doi: 10.1371/journal.pmed.0030415.
PMCID: PMC1576339
Editorial
Access for Contributors: PLoS Expands Options for Publication of Research and Comment
The PLoS Medicine Editors
PLoS Med. 2006 September; 3(9): e416. Published online 2006 September 26. doi: 10.1371/journal.pmed.0030416.
PMCID: PMC1576340
The PLoS Medicine Debate
Was the “ABC” Approach (Abstinence, Being Faithful, Using Condoms) Responsible for Uganda's Decline in HIV?
Elaine M Murphy, Margaret E Greene, Alexandra Mihailovic, and Peter Olupot-Olupot
PLoS Med. 2006 September; 3(9): e379. Published online 2006 September 12. doi: 10.1371/journal.pmed.0030379.
PMCID: PMC1564179
Essay
Noncommunicable Diseases and Injuries in Latin America and the Caribbean: Time for Action
Pablo Perel, Juan P Casas, Zulma Ortiz, and J. Jaime Miranda
PLoS Med. 2006 September; 3(9): e344. Published online 2006 September 5. doi: 10.1371/journal.pmed.0030344.
PMCID: PMC1570186
Neglected Diseases
River Blindness: A Success Story under Threat?
María-Gloria Basáñez, Sébastien D. S Pion, Thomas S Churcher, Lutz P Breitling, Mark P Little, and Michel Boussinesq
PLoS Med. 2006 September; 3(9): e371. Published online 2006 September 26. doi: 10.1371/journal.pmed.0030371.
PMCID: PMC1576321
Perspectives
Does Academic Medicine Matter?
Jocalyn Clark and Peter Tugwell
PLoS Med. 2006 September; 3(9): e340. Published online 2006 September 12. doi: 10.1371/journal.pmed.0030340.
PMCID: PMC1564171
Is DOTS-Plus a Feasible and Cost-Effective Strategy?
Paul Garner, Marissa Alejandria, and Mary Ann Lansang
PLoS Med. 2006 September; 3(9): e350. Published online 2006 September 12. doi: 10.1371/journal.pmed.0030350.
PMCID: PMC1564173
Shigellosis: An Old Disease in New Clothes?
Philippe J Sansonetti
PLoS Med. 2006 September; 3(9): e354. Published online 2006 September 12. doi: 10.1371/journal.pmed.0030354.
PMCID: PMC1564175
Geographic Data on Health Inequities: Understanding Policy Implications
Gregory Pappas
PLoS Med. 2006 September; 3(9): e357. Published online 2006 September 12. doi: 10.1371/journal.pmed.0030357.
PMCID: PMC1564169
A Step Closer to Meeting the Threat of Avian Influenza
Stacey Schultz-Cherry and Jonathan A McCullers
PLoS Med. 2006 September; 3(9): e375. Published online 2006 September 12. doi: 10.1371/journal.pmed.0030375.
PMCID: PMC1564178
Harmful Waste Products as Novel Immune Modulators for Treating Inflammatory Arthritis?
Andrew P Cope
PLoS Med. 2006 September; 3(9): e385. Published online 2006 September 12. doi: 10.1371/journal.pmed.0030385.
PMCID: PMC1564181
Health in Action
The City Initiative for Newborn Health
Armida Fernandez and David Osrin
PLoS Med. 2006 September; 3(9): e339. Published online 2006 August 8. doi: 10.1371/journal.pmed.0030339.
PMCID: PMC1526771
Policy Forum
Is the Current Management of Severe Sepsis and Septic Shock Really Evidence Based?
Jean-Louis Vincent
PLoS Med. 2006 September; 3(9): e346. Published online 2006 August 22. doi: 10.1371/journal.pmed.0030346.
PMCID: PMC1550732
Antidepressants and Violence: Problems at the Interface of Medicine and Law
David Healy, Andrew Herxheimer, and David B Menkes
PLoS Med. 2006 September; 3(9): e372. Published online 2006 September 12. doi: 10.1371/journal.pmed.0030372.
PMCID: PMC1564177
Promoting Translational and Clinical Science: The Critical Role of Medical Schools and Teaching Hospitals
Howard B Dickler, David Korn, and Steven G Gabbe
PLoS Med. 2006 September; 3(9): e378. Published online 2006 September 5. doi: 10.1371/journal.pmed.0030378.
PMCID: PMC1570187
Regenerative Medicine and the Developing World
Heather L Greenwood, Peter A Singer, Gregory P Downey, Douglas K Martin, Halla Thorsteinsdóttir, and Abdallah S Daar
PLoS Med. 2006 September; 3(9): e381. Published online 2006 September 12. doi: 10.1371/journal.pmed.0030381.
PMCID: PMC1564180
Research in Translation
Which Topical Microbicides for Blocking HIV-1 Transmission Will Work in the Real World?
Per Johan Klasse, Robin J Shattock, and John P Moore
PLoS Med. 2006 September; 3(9): e351. Published online 2006 August 15. doi: 10.1371/journal.pmed.0030351.
PMCID: PMC1539095
Student Forum
Why Medical Students Should Be Trained in Disaster Management: Our Experience of the Kashmir Earthquake
Ahmad Ayaz Sabri and Muhammad Ahad Qayyum
PLoS Med. 2006 September; 3(9): e382. Published online 2006 September 26. doi: 10.1371/journal.pmed.0030382.
PMCID: PMC1576327
Learning Forum
A Gambian Infant with Fever and an Unexpected Blood Film
Stephen Howie, Malcolm Guy, Louise Fleming, Wendi Bailey, Harry Noyes, Joseph Axel Faye, Jacques Pepin, Brian Greenwood, Hilton Whittle, David Molyneux, and Tumani Corrah
PLoS Med. 2006 September; 3(9): e355. Published online 2006 September 26. doi: 10.1371/journal.pmed.0030355.
PMCID: PMC1576315
Research Articles
Eight Americas: Investigating Mortality Disparities across Races, Counties, and Race-Counties in the United States
Christopher J. L Murray, Sandeep C Kulkarni, Catherine Michaud, Niels Tomijima, Maria T Bulzacchelli, Terrell J Iandiorio, and Majid Ezzati
PLoS Med. 2006 September; 3(9): e260. Published online 2006 September 12. doi: 10.1371/journal.pmed.0030260.
PMCID: PMC1564165
Birth Outcome in Women with Previously Treated Breast Cancer—A Population-Based Cohort Study from Sweden
Kristina Dalberg, Johan Eriksson, and Lars Holmberg
PLoS Med. 2006 September; 3(9): e336. Published online 2006 September 12. doi: 10.1371/journal.pmed.0030336.
PMCID: PMC1564170
New Rapid Diagnostic Tests for Neisseria meningitidis Serogroups A, W135, C, and Y
Suzanne Chanteau, Sylvie Dartevelle, Ali Elhadj Mahamane, Saacou Djibo, Pascal Boisier, and Farida Nato
PLoS Med. 2006 September; 3(9): e337. Published online 2006 September 5. doi: 10.1371/journal.pmed.0030337.
PMCID: PMC1563501
Regulation of Peripheral Inflammation by Spinal p38 MAP Kinase in Rats
David L Boyle, Toni L Jones, Deepa Hammaker, Camille I Svensson, Sanna Rosengren, Salvatore Albani, Linda Sorkin, and Gary S Firestein
PLoS Med. 2006 September; 3(9): e338. Published online 2006 September 5. doi: 10.1371/journal.pmed.0030338.
PMCID: PMC1560929
Patient Outcomes with Teaching Versus Nonteaching Healthcare: A Systematic Review
Panagiotis N Papanikolaou, Georgia D Christidi, and John P. A Ioannidis
PLoS Med. 2006 September; 3(9): e341. Published online 2006 September 12. doi: 10.1371/journal.pmed.0030341.
PMCID: PMC1564172
SARS: Systematic Review of Treatment Effects
Lauren J Stockman, Richard Bellamy, and Paul Garner
PLoS Med. 2006 September; 3(9): e343. Published online 2006 September 12. doi: 10.1371/journal.pmed.0030343.
PMCID: PMC1564166
A New Arthritis Therapy with Oxidative Burst Inducers
Malin Hultqvist, Peter Olofsson, Kyra A Gelderman, Jens Holmberg, and Rikard Holmdahl
PLoS Med. 2006 September; 3(9): e348. Published online 2006 September 12. doi: 10.1371/journal.pmed.0030348.
PMCID: PMC1564167
Feasibility and Cost-Effectiveness of Treating Multidrug-Resistant Tuberculosis: A Cohort Study in the Philippines
Thelma E Tupasi, Rajesh Gupta, Ma Imelda D Quelapio, Ruth B Orillaza, Nona Rachel Mira, Nellie V Mangubat, Virgil Belen, Nida Arnisto, Lualhati Macalintal, Michael Arabit, Jaime Y Lagahid, Marcos Espinal, and Katherine Floyd
PLoS Med. 2006 September; 3(9): e352. Published online 2006 September 12. doi: 10.1371/journal.pmed.0030352.
PMCID: PMC1564168
A Multicentre Study of Shigella Diarrhoea in Six Asian Countries: Disease Burden, Clinical Manifestations, and Microbiology
Lorenz von Seidlein, Deok Ryun Kim, Mohammad Ali, Hyejon Lee, XuanYi Wang, Vu Dinh Thiem, Do Gia Canh, Wanpen Chaicumpa, Magdarina D Agtini, Anowar Hossain, Zulfiqar A Bhutta, Carl Mason, Ornthipa Sethabutr, Kaisar Talukder, G. B Nair, Jacqueline L Deen, Karen Kotloff, and John Clemens
PLoS Med. 2006 September; 3(9): e353. Published online 2006 September 12. doi: 10.1371/journal.pmed.0030353.
PMCID: PMC1564174
Emergence of Drug Resistance Is Associated with an Increased Risk of Death among Patients First Starting HAART
Robert S Hogg, David R Bangsberg, Viviane D Lima, Chris Alexander, Simon Bonner, Benita Yip, Evan Wood, Winnie W. Y Dong, Julio S. G Montaner, and P. Richard Harrigan
PLoS Med. 2006 September; 3(9): e356. Published online 2006 September 19. doi: 10.1371/journal.pmed.0030356.
PMCID: PMC1569883
In Celiac Disease, a Subset of Autoantibodies against Transglutaminase Binds Toll-Like Receptor 4 and Induces Activation of Monocytes
Giovanna Zanoni, Riccardo Navone, Claudio Lunardi, Giuseppe Tridente, Caterina Bason, Simona Sivori, Ruggero Beri, Marzia Dolcino, Enrico Valletta, Roberto Corrocher, and Antonio Puccetti
PLoS Med. 2006 September; 3(9): e358. Published online 2006 September 19. doi: 10.1371/journal.pmed.0030358.
PMCID: PMC1569884
Live, Attenuated Influenza A H5N1 Candidate Vaccines Provide Broad Cross-Protection in Mice and Ferrets
Amorsolo L Suguitan, Jr., Josephine McAuliffe, Kimberly L Mills, Hong Jin, Greg Duke, Bin Lu, Catherine J Luke, Brian Murphy, David E Swayne, George Kemble, and Kanta Subbarao
PLoS Med. 2006 September; 3(9): e360. Published online 2006 September 12. doi: 10.1371/journal.pmed.0030360.
PMCID: PMC1564176
Reducing the Impact of the Next Influenza Pandemic Using Household-Based Public Health Interventions
Joseph T Wu, Steven Riley, Christophe Fraser, and Gabriel M Leung
PLoS Med. 2006 September; 3(9): e361. Published online 2006 August 8. doi: 10.1371/journal.pmed.0030361.
PMCID: PMC1526768
Corrections
Correction: “Key to the Future”: British American Tobacco and Cigarette Smuggling in China
Kelley Lee and Jeff Collin
PLoS Med. 2006 September; 3(9): e390. Published online 2006 September 5. doi: 10.1371/journal.pmed.0030390.
PMCID: PMC1563502
Corrects: Kelley Lee, et al. “Key to the Future”: British American Tobacco and Cigarette Smuggling in China. PLoS Med. 2006 July; 3(7): e228.
Correction: Should Society Allow Research Ethics Boards to Be Run As For-Profit Enterprises?
Ezekiel J Emanuel, Trudo Lemmens, and Carl Elliott
PLoS Med. 2006 September; 3(9): e391. Published online 2006 September 12. doi: 10.1371/journal.pmed.0030391.
PMCID: PMC1564182
Corrects: Ezekiel J Emanuel, et al. Should Society Allow Research Ethics Boards to Be Run As For-Profit Enterprises?. PLoS Med. 2006 July; 3(7): e309.
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