| | The PLoS Medicine Debate Should Data from Demographic Surveillance Systems Be Made More Widely Available to Researchers? Daniel Chandramohan, Kenji Shibuya, Philip Setel, Sandy Cairncross, Alan D Lopez, Christopher J. L Murray, Basia Żaba, Robert W Snow, and Fred Binka PLoS Med. 2008 February; 5(2): e57. Published online 2008 February 26. doi: 10.1371/journal.pmed.0050057.PMCID: PMC2253613 Editorial The Neglected Diseases Section in PLoS Medicine: Moving Beyond Tropical Infections The PLoS Medicine Editors PLoS Med. 2008 February; 5(2): e59. Published online 2008 February 26. doi: 10.1371/journal.pmed.0050059.PMCID: PMC2253615 Neglected Diseases Eliminating Human African Trypanosomiasis: Where Do We Stand and What Comes Next> Pere P Simarro, Jean Jannin, and Pierre Cattand PLoS Med. 2008 February; 5(2): e55. Published online 2008 February 26. doi: 10.1371/journal.pmed.0050055.PMCID: PMC2253612 Perspectives Antiretroviral Therapy for Prevention of HIV Infection: New Clues From an Animal Model Myron S Cohen and Angela D. M Kashuba PLoS Med. 2008 February; 5(2): e30. Published online 2008 February 5. doi: 10.1371/journal.pmed.0050030.PMCID: PMC2225431 Does Preventing Obesity Lead to Reduced Health-Care Costs? Klim McPherson PLoS Med. 2008 February; 5(2): e37. Published online 2008 February 5. doi: 10.1371/journal.pmed.0050037.PMCID: PMC2225433 The Evolution of Norovirus, the “Gastric Flu” Ben Lopman, Maria Zambon, and David W Brown PLoS Med. 2008 February; 5(2): e42. Published online 2008 February 12. doi: 10.1371/journal.pmed.0050042.PMCID: PMC2235896 Maternal Death, Autopsy Studies, and Lessons from Pathology Sebastian Lucas PLoS Med. 2008 February; 5(2): e48. Published online 2008 February 19. doi: 10.1371/journal.pmed.0050048.PMCID: PMC2245983 New Formulation of Paraquat: A Step Forward but in the Wrong Direction? D. Nicholas Bateman PLoS Med. 2008 February; 5(2): e58. Published online 2008 February 26. doi: 10.1371/journal.pmed.0050058.PMCID: PMC2253614 Policy Forum Soft Targets: Nurses and the Pharmaceutical Industry Annemarie Jutel and David B Menkes PLoS Med. 2008 February; 5(2): e5. Published online 2008 February 5. doi: 10.1371/journal.pmed.0050005.PMCID: PMC2225434 Research in Translation Solving the Mystery of Myelodysplasia Jerald Radich PLoS Med. 2008 February; 5(2): e40. Published online 2008 February 12. doi: 10.1371/journal.pmed.0050040.PMCID: PMC2235895 Salivating for Knowledge: Potential Pharmacological Agents in Tick Saliva Joppe W. R Hovius, Marcel Levi, and Erol Fikrig PLoS Med. 2008 February; 5(2): e43. Published online 2008 February 12. doi: 10.1371/journal.pmed.0050043.PMCID: PMC2235897 Research Articles Prevention of Rectal SHIV Transmission in Macaques by Daily or Intermittent Prophylaxis with Emtricitabine and Tenofovir J. Gerardo García-Lerma, Ron A Otten, Shoukat H Qari, Eddie Jackson, Mian-er Cong, Silvina Masciotra, Wei Luo, Caryn Kim, Debra R Adams, Michael Monsour, Jonathan Lipscomb, Jeffrey A Johnson, David Delinsky, Raymond F Schinazi, Robert Janssen, Thomas M Folks, and Walid Heneine PLoS Med. 2008 February; 5(2): e28. Published online 2008 February 5. doi: 10.1371/journal.pmed.0050028.PMCID: PMC2225435 Lifetime Medical Costs of Obesity: Prevention No Cure for Increasing Health Expenditure Pieter H. M van Baal, Johan J Polder, G. Ardine de Wit, Rudolf T Hoogenveen, Talitha L Feenstra, Hendriek C Boshuizen, Peter M Engelfriet, and Werner B. F Brouwer PLoS Med. 2008 February; 5(2): e29. Published online 2008 February 5. doi: 10.1371/journal.pmed.0050029.PMCID: PMC2225430 Mechanisms of GII.4 Norovirus Persistence in Human Populations Lisa C Lindesmith, Eric F Donaldson, Anna D LoBue, Jennifer L Cannon, Du-Ping Zheng, Jan Vinje, and Ralph S Baric PLoS Med. 2008 February; 5(2): e31. Published online 2008 February 12. doi: 10.1371/journal.pmed.0050031.PMCID: PMC2235898 A Collaborative Epidemiological Investigation into the Criminal Fake Artesunate Trade in South East Asia Paul N Newton, Facundo M Fernández, Aline Plançon, Dallas C Mildenhall, Michael D Green, Li Ziyong, Eva Maria Christophel, Souly Phanouvong, Stephen Howells, Eric McIntosh, Paul Laurin, Nancy Blum, Christina Y Hampton, Kevin Faure, Leonard Nyadong, C. W. Ray Soong, Budiono Santoso, Wang Zhiguang, John Newton, and Kevin Palmer PLoS Med. 2008 February; 5(2): e32. Published online 2008 February 12. doi: 10.1371/journal.pmed.0050032.PMCID: PMC2235893 An Erythroid Differentiation Signature Predicts Response to Lenalidomide in Myelodysplastic Syndrome Benjamin L Ebert, Naomi Galili, Pablo Tamayo, Jocelyn Bosco, Raymond Mak, Jennifer Pretz, Shyam Tanguturi, Christine Ladd-Acosta, Richard Stone, Todd R Golub, and Azra Raza PLoS Med. 2008 February; 5(2): e35. Published online 2008 February 12. doi: 10.1371/journal.pmed.0050035.PMCID: PMC2235894 The Limits and Intensity of Plasmodium falciparum Transmission: Implications for Malaria Control and Elimination Worldwide Carlos A Guerra, Priscilla W Gikandi, Andrew J Tatem, Abdisalan M Noor, Dave L Smith, Simon I Hay, and Robert W Snow PLoS Med. 2008 February; 5(2): e38. Published online 2008 February 26. doi: 10.1371/journal.pmed.0050038.PMCID: PMC2253602 CD36 Deficiency Leads to Choroidal Involution via COX2 Down-Regulation in Rodents Marianne Houssier, William Raoul, Sophie Lavalette, Nicole Keller, Xavier Guillonneau, Barbara Baragatti, Laurent Jonet, Jean-Claude Jeanny, Francine Behar-Cohen, Flavio Coceani, Daniel Scherman, Pierre Lachapelle, Huy Ong, Sylvain Chemtob, and Florian Sennlaub PLoS Med. 2008 February; 5(2): e39. Published online 2008 February 19. doi: 10.1371/journal.pmed.0050039.PMCID: PMC2245984 An Autopsy Study of Maternal Mortality in Mozambique: The Contribution of Infectious Diseases Clara Menéndez, Cleofé Romagosa, Mamudo R Ismail, Carla Carrilho, Francisco Saute, Nafissa Osman, Fernanda Machungo, Azucena Bardaji, Llorenç Quintó, Alfredo Mayor, Denise Naniche, Carlota Dobaño, Pedro L Alonso, and Jaume Ordi PLoS Med. 2008 February; 5(2): e44. Published online 2008 February 19. doi: 10.1371/journal.pmed.0050044.PMCID: PMC2245982 Initial Severity and Antidepressant Benefits: A Meta-Analysis of Data Submitted to the Food and Drug Administration Irving Kirsch, Brett J Deacon, Tania B Huedo-Medina, Alan Scoboria, Thomas J Moore, and Blair T Johnson PLoS Med. 2008 February; 5(2): e45. Published online 2008 February 26. doi: 10.1371/journal.pmed.0050045.PMCID: PMC2253608 The Fall and Rise of US Inequities in Premature Mortality: 1960–2002 Nancy Krieger, David H Rehkopf, Jarvis T Chen, Pamela D Waterman, Enrico Marcelli, and Malinda Kennedy PLoS Med. 2008 February; 5(2): e46. Published online 2008 February 26. doi: 10.1371/journal.pmed.0050046.PMCID: PMC2253609 Improvement in Survival after Paraquat Ingestion Following Introduction of a New Formulation in Sri Lanka Martin F Wilks, Ravindra Fernando, P. L Ariyananda, Michael Eddleston, David J Berry, John A Tomenson, Nicholas A Buckley, Shaluka Jayamanne, David Gunnell, and Andrew Dawson PLoS Med. 2008 February; 5(2): e49. Published online 2008 February 26. doi: 10.1371/journal.pmed.0050049.PMCID: PMC2253611 Correction Correction: What Are the Benefits and Risks of Fitting Patients with Radiofrequency Identification Devices? Mark Levine, Ben Adida, Kenneth Mandl, Isaac Kohane, and John Halamka PLoS Med. 2008 February; 5(2): e36. Published online 2008 February 5. doi: 10.1371/journal.pmed.0050036.PMCID: PMC2225432 Corrects: Mark Levine, et al. What Are the Benefits and Risks of Fitting Patients with Radiofrequency Identification Devices. PLoS Med. 2007 November; 4(11): e322. |