| | Correspondence Research Ethics Boards: Size, Not Money Joal Hill PMCID: PMC1626561 Research Ethics Boards: Error and Misconception Angela Bowen PMCID: PMC1626562 Research Ethics Boards: No Data on Quality of For-Profit or Non-Profit IRBs Adil E Shamoo and Elizabeth Woeckner PMCID: PMC1626563 Research Ethics Boards: Reply from Ezekiel Emanuel Ezekiel J Emanuel PMCID: PMC1626564 Novel Therapies for Tuberculosis: Tuberculosis Control and its Discontents Jose Luis Portero and Maria Rubio PMCID: PMC1626565 Preterm Birth: Effect of Corticosteroids or Immediate Cord Clamping? David Hutchon and Ben Ononeze PMCID: PMC1626566 Industry-Sponsored Research: A More Comprehensive Alternative Peter Mansfield PMCID: PMC1626567 Industry-Sponsored Research: Author's Reply Julio Sotelo PMCID: PMC1626568 Profiling of CSF: Author's Reply Sabine Bahn, F. Markus Leweke, and Jeffrey T.-J Huang PMCID: PMC1626569 Profiling of CSF: Reliability of Diagnosis Robert Matthews PMCID: PMC1626570 Profiling of CSF: Small Subgroups Dave Hambridge PMCID: PMC1626571 Research Ethics Boards: Reply from Trudo Lemmens and Carl Elliott Trudo Lemmens and Carl Elliott PMCID: PMC1626572 Research Ethics Boards: The Protection of Human Subjects Valia S Lestou, Nancy Ondrusek, and Morris A Blajchman PMCID: PMC1626573 The PLoS Medicine Debate Is It Ethical for Patients with Renal Disease to Purchase Kidneys from the World's Poor? Tarif Bakdash and Nancy Scheper-Hughes PMCID: PMC1621090 Editorial Social Medicine in the Twenty-First Century Scott Stonington, Seth M Holmes, and The PLoS Medicine Editors PMCID: PMC1621097 Essays Anthropology in the Clinic: The Problem of Cultural Competency and How to Fix It Arthur Kleinman and Peter Benson PMCID: PMC1621088 How Did Social Medicine Evolve, and Where Is It Heading? Dorothy Porter PMCID: PMC1621092 Ethnic Disparities in Health: The Public's Role in Working for Equality David Satcher PMCID: PMC1621093 Health Is Still Social: Contemporary Examples in the Age of the Genome Timothy H Holtz, Seth Holmes, Scott Stonington, and Leon Eisenberg PMCID: PMC1621094 “Anecdotal Evidence”: Why Narratives Matter to Medical Practice Rafael Campo PMCID: PMC1621095 Five Myths about the HIV Epidemic in Asia Peter Godwin, Nigel O'Farrell, Knut Fylkesnes, and Sujaya Misra PMCID: PMC1590036 HIV, Stigma, and Rates of Infection: A Rumour without Evidence Daniel D Reidpath and Kit Yee Chan PMCID: PMC1626558 Is There a Global Bioethics? End-of-Life in Thailand and the Case for Local Difference Scott Stonington and Pinit Ratanakul PMCID: PMC1621096 Perspectives The Migrainous Brain: What You See Is Not All You Get? Peter J Goadsby PMCID: PMC1609121 How Important Is Diabetes as a Risk Factor for Cardiovascular and Other Diseases in Older Adults? Andre Pascal Kengne and Anushka Patel PMCID: PMC1609122 Can We Prevent, Delay, or Shorten the Course of Dementia? Willem A Van Gool PMCID: PMC1626555 Complement Factor H Gene Abnormalities in Haemolytic Uraemic Syndrome: From Point Mutations to Hybrid Gene Marina Noris and Giuseppe Remuzzi PMCID: PMC1626557 Can the Severity of Normal Tissue Damage after Radiation Therapy Be Predicted? Adrian C Begg PMCID: PMC1626559 Policy Forum Responding to AIDS, Tuberculosis, Malaria, and Emerging Infectious Diseases in Burma: Dilemmas of Policy and Practice Chris Beyrer, Voravit Suwanvanichkij, Luke C Mullany, Adam K Richards, Nicole Franck, Aaron Samuels, and Thomas J Lee PMCID: PMC1592343 Time to Regenerate: Ecosystems and Health Promotion Colin D Butler and Sharon Friel PMCID: PMC1621091 Estimating the Demand for a Preventive HIV Vaccine: Why We Need to Do Better: Reliable estimates would help in achieving several policy and advocacy objectives Robert Hecht and Chutima Suraratdecha PMCID: PMC1560173 Priority Setting for Pandemic Influenza: An Analysis of National Preparedness Plans Lori Uscher-Pines, Saad B Omer, Daniel J Barnett, Thomas A Burke, and Ran D Balicer PMCID: PMC1609123 Structural Violence and Clinical Medicine Paul E Farmer, Bruce Nizeye, Sara Stulac, and Salmaan Keshavjee PMCID: PMC1621099 Research in Translation HIV-1 Viral Load Assays for Resource-Limited Settings Susan A Fiscus, Ben Cheng, Suzanne M Crowe, Lisa Demeter, Cheryl Jennings, Veronica Miller, Richard Respess, Wendy Stevens, and the Forum for Collaborative HIV Research Alternative Viral Load Assay Working Group
PMCID: PMC1592347 Best Practice Antidepressant Prevention of Postnatal Depression Louise M Howard, Elizabeth Boath, and Carol Henshaw PMCID: PMC1590037 Student Forum Why Should Medical Students Care about Health Policy? Rajesh Gupta PMCID: PMC1621087 Research Articles Insights into the Management of Emerging Infections: Regulating Variant Creutzfeldt-Jakob Disease Transfusion Risk in the UK and the US Maya L Ponte PMCID: PMC1621089 Lentiviral Gene Transfer of Rpe65 Rescues Survival and Function of Cones in a Mouse Model of Leber Congenital Amaurosis Alexis-Pierre Bemelmans, Corinne Kostic, Sylvain V Crippa, William W Hauswirth, Janis Lem, Francis L Munier, Mathias W Seeliger, Andreas Wenzel, and Yvan Arsenijevic PMCID: PMC1592340 Cost-Effectiveness Study of Three Antimalarial Drug Combinations in Tanzania Virginia Wiseman, Michelle Kim, Theonest K Mutabingwa, and Christopher J. M Whitty PMCID: PMC1592341 Combining Information from Common Type 2 Diabetes Risk Polymorphisms Improves Disease Prediction Michael N Weedon, Mark I McCarthy, Graham Hitman, Mark Walker, Christopher J Groves, Eleftheria Zeggini, N. William Rayner, Beverley Shields, Katharine R Owen, Andrew T Hattersley, and Timothy M Frayling PMCID: PMC1584415 Reconstructing Tuberculosis Services after Major Conflict: Experiences and Lessons Learned in East Timor Nelson Martins, Paul M Kelly, Jocelyn A Grace, and Anthony B Zwi PMCID: PMC1550733 Tuberculosis Recurrence and Mortality after Successful Treatment: Impact of Drug Resistance Helen Cox, Yared Kebede, Sholpan Allamuratova, Gabit Ismailov, Zamira Davletmuratova, Graham Byrnes, Christine Stone, Stefan Niemann, Sabine Rüsch-Gerdes, Lucie Blok, and Daribay Doshetov PMCID: PMC1584414 A Comparative Analysis of Influenza Vaccination Programs Shweta Bansal, Babak Pourbohloul, and Lauren Ancel Meyers PMCID: PMC1584413 A Population-Based Study on Alcohol and High-Risk Sexual Behaviors in Botswana Sheri D Weiser, Karen Leiter, Michele Heisler, Willi McFarland, Fiona Percy-de Korte, Sonya M DeMonner, Sheila Tlou, Nthabiseng Phaladze, Vincent Iacopino, and David R Bangsberg PMCID: PMC1592342 Time to Renal Disease and End-Stage Renal Disease in PROFILE: A Multiethnic Lupus Cohort Graciela S Alarcón, Gerald McGwin, Jr., Michelle Petri, Rosalind Ramsey-Goldman, Barri J Fessler, Luis M Vilá, Jeffrey C Edberg, John D Reveille, Robert P Kimberly, and for the PROFILE Study Group PMCID: PMC1626549 Dementia before Death in Ageing Societies— The Promise of Prevention and the Reality Carol Brayne, Lu Gao, Michael Dewey, Fiona E Matthews, and Medical Research Council Cognitive Function and Ageing Study Investigators PMCID: PMC1626550 Mortality in Pharmacologically Treated Older Adults with Diabetes: The Cardiovascular Health Study, 1989–2001 Richard A Kronmal, Joshua I Barzilay, Nicholas L Smith, Bruce M Psaty, Lewis H Kuller, Gregory L Burke, and Curt Furberg PMCID: PMC1609124 Empirical Evidence for the Effect of Airline Travel on Inter-Regional Influenza Spread in the United States John S Brownstein, Cecily J Wolfe, and Kenneth D Mandl PMCID: PMC1564183 Anatomical Alterations of the Visual Motion Processing Network in Migraine with and without Aura Cristina Granziera, Alexandre F. M DaSilva, Josh Snyder, David S Tuch, and Nouchine Hadjikhani PMCID: PMC1609120 HLA Alleles Associated with Delayed Progression to AIDS Contribute Strongly to the Initial CD8+ T Cell Response against HIV-1 Marcus Altfeld, Elizabeth T Kalife, Ying Qi, Hendrik Streeck, Mathias Lichterfeld, Mary N Johnston, Nicole Burgett, Martha E Swartz, Amy Yang, Galit Alter, Xu G Yu, Angela Meier, Juergen K Rockstroh, Todd M Allen, Heiko Jessen, Eric S Rosenberg, Mary Carrington, and Bruce D Walker PMCID: PMC1626551 Dysfunctional KEAP1–NRF2 Interaction in Non-Small-Cell Lung Cancer Anju Singh, Vikas Misra, Rajesh K Thimmulappa, Hannah Lee, Stephen Ames, Mohammad O Hoque, James G Herman, Stephen B Baylin, David Sidransky, Edward Gabrielson, Malcolm V Brock, and Shyam Biswal PMCID: PMC1584412 Indigenous Health and Socioeconomic Status in India S. V Subramanian, George Davey Smith, and Malavika Subramanyam PMCID: PMC1621109 Analysis of Gene Expression Using Gene Sets Discriminates Cancer Patients with and without Late Radiation Toxicity J. Peter Svensson, Lukas J. A Stalpers, Rebecca E. E. Esveldt–van Lange, Nicolaas A. P Franken, Jaap Haveman, Binie Klein, Ingela Turesson, Harry Vrieling, and Micheline Giphart-Gassler PMCID: PMC1626552 Methods of Blinding in Reports of Randomized Controlled Trials Assessing Pharmacologic Treatments: A Systematic Review Isabelle Boutron, Candice Estellat, Lydia Guittet, Agnes Dechartres, David L Sackett, Asbjørn Hróbjartsson, and Philippe Ravaud PMCID: PMC1626553 Atypical Haemolytic Uraemic Syndrome Associated with a Hybrid Complement Gene Julian P Venables, Lisa Strain, Danny Routledge, David Bourn, Helen M Powell, Paul Warwicker, Martha L Diaz-Torres, Anne Sampson, Paul Mead, Michelle Webb, Yves Pirson, Michael S Jackson, Anne Hughes, Katrina M Wood, Judith A Goodship, and Timothy H. J Goodship PMCID: PMC1626556 An Ethnographic Study of the Social Context of Migrant Health in the United States Seth M Holmes PMCID: PMC1621098 Reinterpreting Ethnic Patterns among White and African American Men Who Inject Heroin: A Social Science of Medicine Approach Philippe Bourgois, Alexis Martinez, Alex Kral, Brian R Edlin, Jeff Schonberg, and Dan Ciccarone PMCID: PMC1621100 Corrections Correction: 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: PMC1626548 Corrects: Sheri D Weiser, et al. Routine HIV Testing in Botswana: A Population-Based Study on Attitudes, Practices, and Human Rights Concerns. PLoS Med. 2006 July; 3(7): e261. Correction: Frequency of Adverse Events after Vaccination with Different Vaccinia Strains Mirjam Kretzschmar, Jacco Wallinga, Peter Teunis, Shuqin Xing, and Rafael Mikolajczyk PMCID: PMC1626554 Corrects: Mirjam Kretzschmar, et al. Frequency of Adverse Events after Vaccination with Different Vaccinia Strains. PLoS Med. 2006 August; 3(8): e272. Correction: Regulating the Market in Human Research Participants Trudo Lemmens and Paul B Miller PMCID: PMC1626560 Corrects: Trudo Lemmens, et al. Regulating the Market in Human Research Participants. PLoS Med. 2006 August; 3(8): e330. |
