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Volume 4(11);  November 2007
The PLoS Medicine Debate
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. 2007 November; 4(11): e322. Published online 2007 November 27. doi: 10.1371/journal.pmed.0040322.
PMCID: PMC2082639
Editorial
How Can We Draw the Line between Clinical Care and Medical Research
The PLoS Medicine Editors
PLoS Med. 2007 November; 4(11): e340. Published online 2007 November 27. doi: 10.1371/journal.pmed.0040340.
PMCID: PMC2082650
Essay
Sharing H5N1 Viruses to Stop a Global Influenza Pandemic
Laurie Garrett and David P Fidler
PLoS Med. 2007 November; 4(11): e330. Published online 2007 November 20. doi: 10.1371/journal.pmed.0040330.
PMCID: PMC2080649
Perspectives
Understanding Health Care Workers' Anxieties in a Diversifying World
Karen Daniels and Leslie Swartz
PLoS Med. 2007 November; 4(11): e319. Published online 2007 November 13. doi: 10.1371/journal.pmed.0040319.
PMCID: PMC2071937
Vaccines for Cholera Control: Does Herd Immunity Play a Role
Lorenz von Seidlein
PLoS Med. 2007 November; 4(11): e331. Published online 2007 November 27. doi: 10.1371/journal.pmed.0040331.
PMCID: PMC2082646
Who Needs Cause-of-Death Data?
Peter Byass
PLoS Med. 2007 November; 4(11): e333. Published online 2007 November 20. doi: 10.1371/journal.pmed.0040333.
PMCID: PMC2082647
Policy Forum
Randomized Trials to Optimize Treatment of Multidrug-Resistant Tuberculosis: The time for action is now
Carole D Mitnick, Kenneth G Castro, Mark Harrington, Leonard V Sacks, and William Burman
PLoS Med. 2007 November; 4(11): e292. Published online 2007 November 6. doi: 10.1371/journal.pmed.0040292.
PMCID: PMC2062482
New Approaches to Filling the Gap in Tuberculosis Drug Discovery
Martina Casenghi, Stewart T Cole, and Carl F Nathan
PLoS Med. 2007 November; 4(11): e293. Published online 2007 November 6. doi: 10.1371/journal.pmed.0040293.
PMCID: PMC2062479
Building Clinical Trials Capacity for Tuberculosis Drugs in High-Burden Countries
Neil Schluger, Unni Karunakara, Christian Lienhardt, Thomas Nyirenda, and Richard Chaisson
PLoS Med. 2007 November; 4(11): e302. Published online 2007 November 6. doi: 10.1371/journal.pmed.0040302.
PMCID: PMC2062480
Clinical Trials and Medical Care: Defining the Therapeutic Misconception
Gail E Henderson, Larry R Churchill, Arlene M Davis, Michele M Easter, Christine Grady, Steven Joffe, Nancy Kass, Nancy M. P King, Charles W Lidz, Franklin G Miller, Daniel K Nelson, Jeffrey Peppercorn, Barbra Bluestone Rothschild, Pamela Sankar, Benjamin S Wilfond, and Catherine R Zimmer
PLoS Med. 2007 November; 4(11): e324. Published online 2007 November 27. doi: 10.1371/journal.pmed.0040324.
PMCID: PMC2082641
Research Articles
Evolution of Antiretroviral Drug Costs in Brazil in the Context of Free and Universal Access to AIDS Treatment
Amy S Nunn, Elize M Fonseca, Francisco I Bastos, Sofia Gruskin, and Joshua A Salomon
PLoS Med. 2007 November; 4(11): e305. Published online 2007 November 13. doi: 10.1371/journal.pmed.0040305.
PMCID: PMC2071936
Impact of Artemisinin-Based Combination Therapy and Insecticide-Treated Nets on Malaria Burden in Zanzibar
Achuyt Bhattarai, Abdullah S Ali, S. Patrick Kachur, Andreas Mårtensson, Ali K Abbas, Rashid Khatib, Abdul-wahiyd Al-mafazy, Mahdi Ramsan, Guida Rotllant, Jan F Gerstenmaier, Fabrizio Molteni, Salim Abdulla, Scott M Montgomery, Akira Kaneko, and Anders Björkman
PLoS Med. 2007 November; 4(11): e309. Published online 2007 November 6. doi: 10.1371/journal.pmed.0040309.
PMCID: PMC2062481
Long-Term Clinical Protection from Falciparum Malaria Is Strongly Associated with IgG3 Antibodies to Merozoite Surface Protein 3
Christian Roussilhon, Claude Oeuvray, Christine Müller-Graf, Adama Tall, Christophe Rogier, Jean-François Trape, Michael Theisen, Aissatou Balde, Jean-Louis Pérignon, and Pierre Druilhe
PLoS Med. 2007 November; 4(11): e320. Published online 2007 November 13. doi: 10.1371/journal.pmed.0040320.
PMCID: PMC2071934
Professional Uncertainty and Disempowerment Responding to Ethnic Diversity in Health Care: A Qualitative Study
Joe Kai, Jackie Beavan, Christina Faull, Lynne Dodson, Paramjit Gill, and Angela Beighton
PLoS Med. 2007 November; 4(11): e323. Published online 2007 November 13. doi: 10.1371/journal.pmed.0040323.
PMCID: PMC2071935
Estimating Population Cause-Specific Mortality Fractions from in-Hospital Mortality: Validation of a New Method
Christopher J. L Murray, Alan D Lopez, Jeremy T Barofsky, Chloe Bryson-Cahn, and Rafael Lozano
PLoS Med. 2007 November; 4(11): e326. Published online 2007 November 20. doi: 10.1371/journal.pmed.0040326.
PMCID: PMC2080647
Validation of the Symptom Pattern Method for Analyzing Verbal Autopsy Data
Christopher J. L Murray, Alan D Lopez, Dennis M Feehan, Shanon T Peter, and Gonghuan Yang
PLoS Med. 2007 November; 4(11): e327. Published online 2007 November 20. doi: 10.1371/journal.pmed.0040327.
PMCID: PMC2080648
An LRP5 Receptor with Internal Deletion in Hyperparathyroid Tumors with Implications for Deregulated WNT/β-Catenin Signaling
Peyman Björklund, Göran Åkerström, and Gunnar Westin
PLoS Med. 2007 November; 4(11): e328. Published online 2007 November 27. doi: 10.1371/journal.pmed.0040328.
PMCID: PMC2082644
Controlling Endemic Cholera with Oral Vaccines
Ira M Longini, Jr., Azhar Nizam, Mohammad Ali, Mohammad Yunus, Neeta Shenvi, and John D Clemens
PLoS Med. 2007 November; 4(11): e336. Published online 2007 November 27. doi: 10.1371/journal.pmed.0040336.
PMCID: PMC2082648
Cholinesterase Inhibitors in Mild Cognitive Impairment: A Systematic Review of Randomised Trials
Roberto Raschetti, Emiliano Albanese, Nicola Vanacore, and Marina Maggini
PLoS Med. 2007 November; 4(11): e338. Published online 2007 November 27. doi: 10.1371/journal.pmed.0040338.
PMCID: PMC2082649
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