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Volume 2(4);  April 2005
Editorial
Engaging Students in PLoS Medicine
The PLoS Medicine Editors
PLoS Med. 2005 April; 2(4): e118. Published online 2005 April 26. doi: 10.1371/journal.pmed.0020118.
PMCID: PMC1087211
Synopses
Trends in the Prescribing of Thiazides for Hypertension
PLoS Med. 2005 April; 2(4): e113. Published online 2005 April 26. doi: 10.1371/journal.pmed.0020113.
PMCID: PMC1087203
Reducing Malaria Transmission in Africa
PLoS Med. 2005 April; 2(4): e114. Published online 2005 April 26. doi: 10.1371/journal.pmed.0020114.
PMCID: PMC1087210
Producing Insulin from Neural Cells
PLoS Med. 2005 April; 2(4): e115. Published online 2005 April 26. doi: 10.1371/journal.pmed.0020115.
PMCID: PMC1087216
The Complicated Art of Tracking Dengue
PLoS Med. 2005 April; 2(4): e116. Published online 2005 April 26. doi: 10.1371/journal.pmed.0020116.
PMCID: PMC1087221
Monitoring HIV-1 Resistance across the Globe
PLoS Med. 2005 April; 2(4): e117. Published online 2005 April 26. doi: 10.1371/journal.pmed.0020117.
PMCID: PMC1087204
The PLoS Medicine Debate
What Is the Best Strategy for Reducing Deaths from Heart Disease?
Michael E Makover and Shah Ebrahim
PLoS Med. 2005 April; 2(4): e98. Published online 2005 April 26. doi: 10.1371/journal.pmed.0020098.
PMCID: PMC1087207
Essay
The Problem with Academic Medicine: Engineering Our Way into and out of the Mess
Jonathan Rees
PLoS Med. 2005 April; 2(4): e111. Published online 2005 April 26. doi: 10.1371/journal.pmed.0020111.
PMCID: PMC1087215
Neglected Diseases
Buruli Ulcer (M. ulcerans Infection): New Insights, New Hope for Disease Control
Paul D. R Johnson, Timothy Stinear, Pamela L. C Small, Gerd Pluschke, Richard W Merritt, Francoise Portaels, Kris Huygen, John A Hayman, and Kingsley Asiedu
PLoS Med. 2005 April; 2(4): e108. Published online 2005 April 26. doi: 10.1371/journal.pmed.0020108.
PMCID: PMC1087202
Perspectives
The Benefits of Artemisinin Combination Therapy for Malaria Extend Beyond the Individual Patient
Paul Garner and Patricia M Graves
PLoS Med. 2005 April; 2(4): e105. Published online 2005 April 26. doi: 10.1371/journal.pmed.0020105.
PMCID: PMC1087214
The Annotated Genome of Wolbachia from the Filarial Nematode Brugia malayi: What It Means for Progress in Antifilarial Medicine
Kenneth Pfarr and Achim Hoerauf
PLoS Med. 2005 April; 2(4): e110. Published online 2005 April 26. doi: 10.1371/journal.pmed.0020110.
PMCID: PMC1087209
Health in Action
telederm.org: Freely Available Online Consultations in Dermatology
H. Peter Soyer, Rainer Hofmann-Wellenhof, Cesare Massone, Gerald Gabler, Huiting Dong, Fezal Ozdemir, and Giuseppe Argenziano
PLoS Med. 2005 April; 2(4): e87. Published online 2005 April 26. doi: 10.1371/journal.pmed.0020087.
PMCID: PMC1087218
Policy Forum
Out of the Shadows: Using Human Rights Approaches to Secure Dignity and Well-Being for People with Mental Disabilities
Alicia Ely Yamin and Eric Rosenthal
PLoS Med. 2005 April; 2(4): e71. Published online 2005 April 26. doi: 10.1371/journal.pmed.0020071.
PMCID: PMC1087199
The Global Threat of Counterfeit Drugs: Why Industry and Governments Must Communicate the Dangers
Robert Cockburn, Paul N Newton, E. Kyeremateng Agyarko, Dora Akunyili, and Nicholas J White
PLoS Med. 2005 April; 2(4): e100. Published online 2005 March 14. doi: 10.1371/journal.pmed.0020100.
PMCID: PMC1062889
Integrating Equity into Health Information Systems: A Human Rights Approach to Health and Information
Lexi Bambas
PLoS Med. 2005 April; 2(4): e102. Published online 2005 April 26. doi: 10.1371/journal.pmed.0020102.
PMCID: PMC1087201
Student Forum
Hearing the Voice of Medical Students Worldwide
Brian A Palmer, Amanda Wong, and Mohit Singla
PLoS Med. 2005 April; 2(4): e99. Published online 2005 April 26. doi: 10.1371/journal.pmed.0020099.
PMCID: PMC1087213
Learning Forum
A 75-Year-Old Woman with a Hemispheric Stroke
Stavros K Kakkos and George Geroulakos
PLoS Med. 2005 April; 2(4): e79. Published online 2005 April 26. doi: 10.1371/journal.pmed.0020079.
PMCID: PMC1087206
Research Articles
First-Line First? Trends in Thiazide Prescribing for Hypertensive Seniors
Steve Morgan, Kenneth L Bassett, James M Wright, and Lixiang Yan
PLoS Med. 2005 April; 2(4): e80. Published online 2005 April 26. doi: 10.1371/journal.pmed.0020080.
PMCID: PMC1087212
Reduction of Malaria Transmission to Anopheles Mosquitoes with a Six-Dose Regimen of Co-Artemether
Colin J Sutherland, Rosalynn Ord, Sam Dunyo, Musa Jawara, Christopher J Drakeley, Neal Alexander, Rosalind Coleman, Margaret Pinder, Gijs Walraven, and Geoffrey A. T Targett
PLoS Med. 2005 April; 2(4): e92. Published online 2005 April 26. doi: 10.1371/journal.pmed.0020092.
PMCID: PMC1087200
Differentiation of Insulin-Producing Cells from Human Neural Progenitor Cells
Yuichi Hori, Xueying Gu, Xiaodong Xie, and Seung K Kim
PLoS Med. 2005 April; 2(4): e103. Published online 2005 April 26. doi: 10.1371/journal.pmed.0020103.
PMCID: PMC1087208
Nonstationary Influence of El Niño on the Synchronous Dengue Epidemics in Thailand
Bernard Cazelles, Mario Chavez, Anthony J McMichael, and Simon Hales
PLoS Med. 2005 April; 2(4): e106. Published online 2005 April 26. doi: 10.1371/journal.pmed.0020106.
PMCID: PMC1087219
Impact of HIV-1 Subtype and Antiretroviral Therapy on Protease and Reverse Transcriptase Genotype: Results of a Global Collaboration
Rami Kantor, David A Katzenstein, Brad Efron, Ana Patricia Carvalho, Brian Wynhoven, Patricia Cane, John Clarke, Sunee Sirivichayakul, Marcelo A Soares, Joke Snoeck, Candice Pillay, Hagit Rudich, Rosangela Rodrigues, Africa Holguin, Koya Ariyoshi, Maria Belen Bouzas, Pedro Cahn, Wataru Sugiura, Vincent Soriano, Luis F Brigido, Zehava Grossman, Lynn Morris, Anne-Mieke Vandamme, Amilcar Tanuri, Praphan Phanuphak, Jonathan N Weber, Deenan Pillay, P. Richard Harrigan, Ricardo Camacho, Jonathan M Schapiro, and Robert W Shafer
PLoS Med. 2005 April; 2(4): e112. Published online 2005 April 26. doi: 10.1371/journal.pmed.0020112.
PMCID: PMC1087220
Correspondence and Other Communications
Developing an HIV Vaccine: The Role of Efficacy Studies in Nonhuman Primates
Klaus Überla
PLoS Med. 2005 April; 2(4): e119. Published online 2005 April 26. doi: 10.1371/journal.pmed.0020119.
PMCID: PMC1087217
Enophthalmos Is Not Present in Horner Syndrome
Robert Daroff
PLoS Med. 2005 April; 2(4): e120. Published online 2005 April 26. doi: 10.1371/journal.pmed.0020120.
PMCID: PMC1087222
Is American Bioethics Lost in the Woods?
Michael Cook
PLoS Med. 2005 April; 2(4): e121. Published online 2005 April 26. doi: 10.1371/journal.pmed.0020121.
PMCID: PMC1087205
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