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Volume 2(1);  January 2005
Editorial
A Strategy for Developing an HIV Vaccine
The PLoS Medicine Editors
PLoS Med. 2005 January; 2(1): e35. Published online 2005 January 18. doi: 10.1371/journal.pmed.0020035.
PMCID: PMC544554
Synopses
Rethinking Immunity against Pneumococcal Disease
PLoS Med. 2005 January; 2(1): e20. Published online 2005 January 25. doi: 10.1371/journal.pmed.0020020.
PMCID: PMC545209
Predicting Tumor Responses to Gefitinib and Erlotinib
PLoS Med. 2005 January; 2(1): e21. Published online 2005 January 25. doi: 10.1371/journal.pmed.0020021.
PMCID: PMC545210
How Statins May Protect against Alzheimer Disease
PLoS Med. 2005 January; 2(1): e22. Published online 2005 January 11. doi: 10.1371/journal.pmed.0020022.
PMCID: PMC543464
Modeling the HIV Epidemic in Africa
PLoS Med. 2005 January; 2(1): e23. Published online 2005 January 11. doi: 10.1371/journal.pmed.0020023.
PMCID: PMC543465
Meningitis and Climate in West Africa
PLoS Med. 2005 January; 2(1): e24. Published online 2005 January 25. doi: 10.1371/journal.pmed.0020024.
PMCID: PMC545211
The PLoS Medicine Debate
Should an Institution That Has Commercial Rights in a New Drug or Device Be Allowed to Evaluate the Technology?
Ross McKinney and David Korn
PLoS Med. 2005 January; 2(1): e9. Published online 2005 January 25. doi: 10.1371/journal.pmed.0020009.
PMCID: PMC545202
Essays
Deadly Alliances: Death, Disease, and the Global Politics of Public Health
Matthew Gandy
PLoS Med. 2005 January; 2(1): e4. Published online 2005 January 25. doi: 10.1371/journal.pmed.0020004.
PMCID: PMC545197
Trade and Health: Is the Health Community Ready for Action?
Kelley Lee and Meri Koivusalo
PLoS Med. 2005 January; 2(1): e8. Published online 2005 January 25. doi: 10.1371/journal.pmed.0020008.
PMCID: PMC545201
Neglected Diseases
Coccidioidomycosis—A Fungal Disease of the Americas
Richard F Hector and Rafael Laniado-Laborin
PLoS Med. 2005 January; 2(1): e2. Published online 2005 January 25. doi: 10.1371/journal.pmed.0020002.
PMCID: PMC545195
Perspectives
Seasonal Patterns of Infectious Diseases
Mercedes Pascual and Andy Dobson
PLoS Med. 2005 January; 2(1): e5. Published online 2005 January 25. doi: 10.1371/journal.pmed.0020005.
PMCID: PMC545198
Integration of Retroviruses: A Fine Balance between Efficiency and Danger
Alain Fischer and Marina Cavazzana-Calvo
PLoS Med. 2005 January; 2(1): e10. Published online 2005 January 25. doi: 10.1371/journal.pmed.0020010.
PMCID: PMC545203
Gene Mutations in Lung Cancer: Promising Predictive Factors for the Success of Molecular Therapy
Akira Inoue and Toshihiro Nukiwa
PLoS Med. 2005 January; 2(1): e13. Published online 2005 January 25. doi: 10.1371/journal.pmed.0020013.
PMCID: PMC545205
Health in Action
Micronutrient Sprinkles to Control Childhood Anaemia
Stanley H Zlotkin, Claudia Schauer, Anna Christofides, Waseem Sharieff, Mélody C Tondeur, and S. M. Ziauddin Hyder
PLoS Med. 2005 January; 2(1): e1. Published online 2005 January 25. doi: 10.1371/journal.pmed.0020001.
PMCID: PMC545194
Policy Forum
Intermittent Presumptive Treatment for Malaria
Nicholas J White
PLoS Med. 2005 January; 2(1): e3. Published online 2005 January 25. doi: 10.1371/journal.pmed.0020003.
PMCID: PMC545196
Research in Translation
Retinoic Acid and Arsenic for Treating Acute Promyelocytic Leukemia
Guang-Biao Zhou, Wei-Li Zhao, Zhen-Yi Wang, Sai-Juan Chen, and Zhu Chen
PLoS Med. 2005 January; 2(1): e12. Published online 2005 January 25. doi: 10.1371/journal.pmed.0020012.
PMCID: PMC545204
Best Practice
Educating the Brain to Avoid Dementia: Can Mental Exercise Prevent Alzheimer Disease?
Margaret Gatz
PLoS Med. 2005 January; 2(1): e7. Published online 2005 January 25. doi: 10.1371/journal.pmed.0020007.
PMCID: PMC545200
Case Report
Painful Horner Syndrome as a Harbinger of Silent Carotid Dissection
Amit Nautiyal, Sonal Singh, Michael DiSalle, and John O'Sullivan
PLoS Med. 2005 January; 2(1): e19. Published online 2005 January 25. doi: 10.1371/journal.pmed.0020019.
PMCID: PMC545208
Research Articles
Climate Drives the Meningitis Epidemics Onset in West Africa
Benjamin Sultan, Karima Labadi, Jean-François Guégan, and Serge Janicot
PLoS Med. 2005 January; 2(1): e6. Published online 2005 January 25. doi: 10.1371/journal.pmed.0020006.
PMCID: PMC545199
Are Anticapsular Antibodies the Primary Mechanism of Protection against Invasive Pneumococcal Disease?
Marc Lipsitch, Cynthia G Whitney, Elizabeth Zell, Tarja Kaijalainen, Ron Dagan, and Richard Malley
PLoS Med. 2005 January; 2(1): e15. Published online 2005 January 25. doi: 10.1371/journal.pmed.0020015.
PMCID: PMC545206
Integrating HIV Prevention and Treatment: From Slogans to Impact
Joshua A Salomon, Daniel R Hogan, John Stover, Karen A Stanecki, Neff Walker, Peter D Ghys, and Bernhard Schwartländer
PLoS Med. 2005 January; 2(1): e16. Published online 2005 January 11. doi: 10.1371/journal.pmed.0020016.
PMCID: PMC543462
KRAS Mutations and Primary Resistance of Lung Adenocarcinomas to Gefitinib or Erlotinib
William Pao, Theresa Y Wang, Gregory J Riely, Vincent A Miller, Qiulu Pan, Marc Ladanyi, Maureen F Zakowski, Robert T Heelan, Mark G Kris, and Harold E Varmus
PLoS Med. 2005 January; 2(1): e17. Published online 2005 January 25. doi: 10.1371/journal.pmed.0020017.
PMCID: PMC545207
Modulation of Statin-Activated Shedding of Alzheimer APP Ectodomain by ROCK
Steve Pedrini, Troy L Carter, George Prendergast, Suzana Petanceska, Michelle E Ehrlich, and Sam Gandy
PLoS Med. 2005 January; 2(1): e18. Published online 2005 January 11. doi: 10.1371/journal.pmed.0020018.
PMCID: PMC543463
Correspondence and Other Communications
Volume Status in Severe Malaria: No Evidence Provided for the Degree of Filling of the Intravascular Compartment
Kathryn Maitland, Charles Newton, Kevin Marsh, and Mike Levin
PLoS Med. 2005 January; 2(1): e27. Published online 2005 January 25. doi: 10.1371/journal.pmed.0020027.
PMCID: PMC545212
Completing the Public Health HIV/AIDS Alphabet
Arthur Ammann
PLoS Med. 2005 January; 2(1): e28. Published online 2005 January 25. doi: 10.1371/journal.pmed.0020028.
PMCID: PMC545213
Nepal's War and Conflict-Sensitive Development
Sonal Singh
PLoS Med. 2005 January; 2(1): e29. Published online 2005 January 25. doi: 10.1371/journal.pmed.0020029.
PMCID: PMC545214
Three More Learning Points
Ignacio Garcia-Doval
PLoS Med. 2005 January; 2(1): e30. Published online 2005 January 25. doi: 10.1371/journal.pmed.0020030.
PMCID: PMC545215
Authors' Reply
Sanjeev Krishna and Timothy Planche
PLoS Med. 2005 January; 2(1): e32. Published online 2005 January 25. doi: 10.1371/journal.pmed.0020032.
PMCID: PMC545216
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