| | Correspondence Research Ethics Committees in Africa: Building Capacity Solomon Benatar PLoS Med. 2007 March; 4(3): e135. Published online 2007 March 27. doi: 10.1371/journal.pmed.0040135.PMCID: PMC1831745 Research Ethics Committees in Africa: Authors' Reply Nancy E Kass, Adnan Ali Hyder, Ademola Ajuwon, John Appiah-Poku, Nicola Barsdorf, Dya Eldin Elsayed, Mantoa Mokhachane, Bavon Mupenda, Paul Ndebele, Godwin Ndossi, Bornwell Sikateyo, Godfrey Tangwa, and Paulina Tindana PLoS Med. 2007 March; 4(3): e136. Published online 2007 March 27. doi: 10.1371/journal.pmed.0040136.PMCID: PMC1831746 World Social Health Insurance: Strengthening Health Systems in Low-Income Countries Wim Van Damme PLoS Med. 2007 March; 4(3): e137. Published online 2007 March 27. doi: 10.1371/journal.pmed.0040137.PMCID: PMC1831747 Circumcision for HIV Prevention: Failure to Fully Account for Behavioral Risk Compensation Seth Kalichman, Lisa Eaton, and Steven Pinkerton PLoS Med. 2007 March; 4(3): e138. Published online 2007 March 27. doi: 10.1371/journal.pmed.0040138.PMCID: PMC1831748 Counterfeit Artemisinin Derivatives and Africa: Update from Authors Paul N Newton, Michael D Green, and Facundo Fernandez PLoS Med. 2007 March; 4(3): e139. Published online 2007 March 27. doi: 10.1371/journal.pmed.0040139.PMCID: PMC1831749 Children Born to HIV-Infected Mothers in Côte d'Ivoire: Methodological Clarifications Needed Moussa Sarr PLoS Med. 2007 March; 4(3): e140. Published online 2007 March 27. doi: 10.1371/journal.pmed.0040140.PMCID: PMC1831750 Placental Malaria: Hypertension, VEGF, and Prolactin Roy Douglas Pearson PLoS Med. 2007 March; 4(3): e141. Published online 2007 March 27. doi: 10.1371/journal.pmed.0040141.PMCID: PMC1831751 Pollution and Tuberculosis: Outdoor Sources Aaron Cohen and Sumi Mehta PLoS Med. 2007 March; 4(3): e142. Published online 2007 March 27. doi: 10.1371/journal.pmed.0040142.PMCID: PMC1831752 Training and Experience of Peer Reviewers: An Additional Variable to Consider Erik Kulstad PLoS Med. 2007 March; 4(3): e143. Published online 2007 March 27. doi: 10.1371/journal.pmed.0040143.PMCID: PMC1831753 Training and Experience of Peer Reviewers: Is Being a “Good Reviewer” a Persistent Quality? Ignacio García-Doval PLoS Med. 2007 March; 4(3): e144. Published online 2007 March 27. doi: 10.1371/journal.pmed.0040144.PMCID: PMC1831754 Training and Experience of Peer Reviewers: Authors' Reply Michael Callaham PLoS Med. 2007 March; 4(3): e145. Published online 2007 March 27. doi: 10.1371/journal.pmed.0040145.PMCID: PMC1831755 Circumcision for HIV Prevention: Authors' Reply James G Kahn, Elliot Marseille, and Bertran Auvert PLoS Med. 2007 March; 4(3): e146. Published online 2007 March 27. doi: 10.1371/journal.pmed.0040146.PMCID: PMC1831756 Editorial Many Reviews Are Systematic but Some Are More Transparent and Completely Reported than Others The PLoS Medicine Editors PLoS Med. 2007 March; 4(3): e147. Published online 2007 March 27. doi: 10.1371/journal.pmed.0040147.PMCID: PMC1831757 Essays Bone Quality: An Empty Term Harri Sievänen, Pekka Kannus, and Teppo L. N Järvinen PLoS Med. 2007 March; 4(3): e27. Published online 2007 March 6. doi: 10.1371/journal.pmed.0040027.PMCID: PMC1808066 Think Globally Act Locally: The Case for Symphysiotomy Douwe Arie Anne Verkuyl PLoS Med. 2007 March; 4(3): e71. Published online 2007 March 27. doi: 10.1371/journal.pmed.0040071.PMCID: PMC1831724 Perspectives Do CD4+ T Cell Functional Responses to Epstein–Barr Virus Provide Protective Immunity Against CNS Lymphoma in AIDS? Mark A Jacobson PLoS Med. 2007 March; 4(3): e110. Published online 2007 March 27. doi: 10.1371/journal.pmed.0040110.PMCID: PMC1831741 A Challenge for the Development of Malaria Vaccines: Polymorphic Target Antigens Colin Sutherland PLoS Med. 2007 March; 4(3): e116. Published online 2007 March 13. doi: 10.1371/journal.pmed.0040116.PMCID: PMC1820606 Medicines Prices and Malaysia—Untangling the Medicines Web Suzanne Hill PLoS Med. 2007 March; 4(3): e149. Published online 2007 March 27. doi: 10.1371/journal.pmed.0040149.PMCID: PMC1831758 Policy Forum How Should Treatment Decisions Be Made for Incapacitated Patients, and Why? David I Shalowitz, Elizabeth Garrett-Mayer, and David Wendler PLoS Med. 2007 March; 4(3): e35. Published online 2007 March 13. doi: 10.1371/journal.pmed.0040035.PMCID: PMC1820603 What Led to the Nigerian Boycott of the Polio Vaccination Campaign? Ayodele Samuel Jegede PLoS Med. 2007 March; 4(3): e73. Published online 2007 March 20. doi: 10.1371/journal.pmed.0040073.PMCID: PMC1831725 Research in Translation Clinical Xenotransplantation of Organs: Why Aren't We There Yet? Muhammad M Mohiuddin PLoS Med. 2007 March; 4(3): e75. Published online 2007 March 27. doi: 10.1371/journal.pmed.0040075.PMCID: PMC1831726 Why Is Long-Term Therapy Required to Cure Tuberculosis? Lynn E Connolly, Paul H Edelstein, and Lalita Ramakrishnan PLoS Med. 2007 March; 4(3): e120. Published online 2007 March 20. doi: 10.1371/journal.pmed.0040120.PMCID: PMC1831743 Learning Forum A 52-Year-Old Female with a Hoarse Voice and Tingling in the Hand Salman Razvi and Petros Perros PLoS Med. 2007 March; 4(3): e29. Published online 2007 March 6. doi: 10.1371/journal.pmed.0040029.PMCID: PMC1808067 Research Articles X-Linked G6PD Deficiency Protects Hemizygous Males but Not Heterozygous Females against Severe Malaria Aldiouma Guindo, Rick M Fairhurst, Ogobara K Doumbo, Thomas E Wellems, and Dapa A Diallo PLoS Med. 2007 March; 4(3): e66. Published online 2007 March 13. doi: 10.1371/journal.pmed.0040066.PMCID: PMC1820604 Calorie Restriction Increases Muscle Mitochondrial Biogenesis in Healthy Humans Anthony E Civitarese, Stacy Carling, Leonie K Heilbronn, Mathew H Hulver, Barbara Ukropcova, Walter A Deutsch, Steven R Smith, and Eric Ravussin PLoS Med. 2007 March; 4(3): e76. Published online 2007 March 6. doi: 10.1371/journal.pmed.0040076.PMCID: PMC1808482 Epidemiology and Reporting Characteristics of Systematic Reviews David Moher, Jennifer Tetzlaff, Andrea C Tricco, Margaret Sampson, and Douglas G Altman PLoS Med. 2007 March; 4(3): e78. Published online 2007 March 27. doi: 10.1371/journal.pmed.0040078.PMCID: PMC1831728 Selection in Reported Epidemiological Risks: An Empirical Assessment Fotini K Kavvoura, George Liberopoulos, and John P. A Ioannidis PLoS Med. 2007 March; 4(3): e79. Published online 2007 March 6. doi: 10.1371/journal.pmed.0040079.PMCID: PMC1808481 Evaluating Drug Prices, Availability, Affordability, and Price Components: Implications for Access to Drugs in Malaysia Zaheer Ud Din Babar, Mohamed Izham Mohamed Ibrahim, Harpal Singh, Nadeem Irfan Bukahri, and Andrew Creese PLoS Med. 2007 March; 4(3): e82. Published online 2007 March 27. doi: 10.1371/journal.pmed.0040082.PMCID: PMC1831730 Exquisite Sensitivity of TP53 Mutant and Basal Breast Cancers to a Dose-Dense Epirubicin−Cyclophosphamide Regimen Philippe Bertheau, Elisabeth Turpin, David S Rickman, Marc Espié, Aurélien de Reyniès, Jean-Paul Feugeas, Louis-François Plassa, Hany Soliman, Mariana Varna, Anne de Roquancourt, Jacqueline Lehmann-Che, Yves Beuzard, Michel Marty, Jean-Louis Misset, Anne Janin, and Hugues de Thé PLoS Med. 2007 March; 4(3): e90. Published online 2007 March 20. doi: 10.1371/journal.pmed.0040090.PMCID: PMC1831731 Dynamics of Polymorphism in a Malaria Vaccine Antigen at a Vaccine-Testing Site in Mali Shannon L Takala, Drissa Coulibaly, Mahamadou A Thera, Alassane Dicko, David L Smith, Ando B Guindo, Abdoulaye K Kone, Karim Traore, Amed Ouattara, Abdoulaye A Djimde, Paul S Sehdev, Kirsten E Lyke, Dapa A Diallo, Ogobara K Doumbo, and Christopher V Plowe PLoS Med. 2007 March; 4(3): e93. Published online 2007 March 13. doi: 10.1371/journal.pmed.0040093.PMCID: PMC1820605 HIV Patients Developing Primary CNS Lymphoma Lack EBV-Specific CD4+ T Cell Function Irrespective of Absolute CD4+ T Cell Counts Olivier Gasser, Florian K Bihl, Marcel Wolbers, Elisabetta Loggi, Ingrid Steffen, Hans H Hirsch, Huldrych F Günthard, Bruce D Walker, Christian Brander, Manuel Battegay, Christoph Hess, and for the Swiss HIV Cohort Study PLoS Med. 2007 March; 4(3): e96. Published online 2007 March 27. doi: 10.1371/journal.pmed.0040096.PMCID: PMC1831733 Objectively Measured Physical Activity and Fat Mass in a Large Cohort of Children Andy R Ness, Sam D Leary, Calum Mattocks, Steven N Blair, John J Reilly, Jonathan Wells, Sue Ingle, Kate Tilling, George Davey Smith, and Chris Riddoch PLoS Med. 2007 March; 4(3): e97. Published online 2007 March 20. doi: 10.1371/journal.pmed.0040097.PMCID: PMC1831734 Loperamide Therapy for Acute Diarrhea in Children: Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis Su-Ting T Li, David C Grossman, and Peter Cummings PLoS Med. 2007 March; 4(3): e98. Published online 2007 March 27. doi: 10.1371/journal.pmed.0040098.PMCID: PMC1831735 Clonal Waves of Neisseria Colonisation and Disease in the African Meningitis Belt: Eight- Year Longitudinal Study in Northern Ghana Julia Leimkugel, Abraham Hodgson, Abudulai Adams Forgor, Valentin Pflüger, Jean-Pierre Dangy, Tom Smith, Mark Achtman, Sébastien Gagneux, and Gerd Pluschke PLoS Med. 2007 March; 4(3): e101. Published online 2007 March 27. doi: 10.1371/journal.pmed.0040101.PMCID: PMC1831736 Impact and Process Evaluation of Integrated Community and Clinic-Based HIV-1 Control: A Cluster-Randomised Trial in Eastern Zimbabwe Simon Gregson, Saina Adamson, Spiwe Papaya, Jephias Mundondo, Constance A Nyamukapa, Peter R Mason, Geoffrey P Garnett, Stephen K Chandiwana, Geoff Foster, and Roy M Anderson PLoS Med. 2007 March; 4(3): e102. Published online 2007 March 27. doi: 10.1371/journal.pmed.0040102.PMCID: PMC1831737 A Prospective Study of Plasma Vitamin D Metabolites, Vitamin D Receptor Polymorphisms, and Prostate Cancer Haojie Li, Meir J Stampfer, J. Bruce W Hollis, Lorelei A Mucci, J. Michael Gaziano, David Hunter, Edward L Giovannucci, and Jing Ma PLoS Med. 2007 March; 4(3): e103. Published online 2007 March 20. doi: 10.1371/journal.pmed.0040103.PMCID: PMC1831738 Insecticide-Treated Nets for the Prevention of Malaria in Pregnancy: A Systematic Review of Randomised Controlled Trials Carol Gamble, Paul J Ekwaru, Paul Garner, and Feiko O. ter Kuile PLoS Med. 2007 March; 4(3): e107. Published online 2007 March 27. doi: 10.1371/journal.pmed.0040107.PMCID: PMC1831739 Aberrant DNA Methylation of OLIG1, a Novel Prognostic Factor in Non-Small Cell Lung Cancer Romulo M Brena, Carl Morrison, Sandya Liyanarachchi, David Jarjoura, Ramana V Davuluri, Gregory A Otterson, David Reisman, Selina Glaros, Laura J Rush, and Christoph Plass PLoS Med. 2007 March; 4(3): e108. Published online 2007 March 27. doi: 10.1371/journal.pmed.0040108.PMCID: PMC1831740 Correction Correction: Climate Cycles and Forecasts of Cutaneous Leishmaniasis, a Nonstationary Vector-Borne Disease Luis Fernando Chaves and Mercedes Pascual PLoS Med. 2007 March; 4(3): e123. Published online 2007 March 27. doi: 10.1371/journal.pmed.0040123.PMCID: PMC1831744 Corrects: Luis Fernando Chaves, et al. Correction: Climate Cycles and Forecasts of Cutaneous Leishmaniasis, a Nonstationary Vector-Borne Disease. PLoS Med. 2007 March; 4(3): e123. |