| | 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. 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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. 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