| | Editorial Why PLoS Sponsored a Roundtable of Medical Whistleblowers The PLoS Medicine Editors PMCID: PMC1140677 Synopses Twins' Health and Adult Socioeconomic Status PMCID: PMC1181891 Which Combination Therapy for Uncomplicated Malaria in Africa? PMCID: PMC1181892 Targeting of a Host Protein to Suppress Hepatitis B Virus Replication PMCID: PMC1181893 Which Treatment for Postherpetic Neuralgia? PMCID: PMC1181894 Appropriate Modeling of Infectious Diseases PMCID: PMC1181895 Towards a Cheap and Easy Way to Monitor HIV/AIDS PMCID: PMC1176238 The PLoS Medicine Debate What Are the Roles and Responsibilities of the Media in Disseminating Health Information? Gary Schwitzer, Ganapati Mudur, David Henry, Amanda Wilson, Merrill Goozner, Maria Simbra, Melissa Sweet, and Katherine A Baverstock PMCID: PMC1181881 Essays Global Health Challenges: The Need for an Expanded Discourse on Bioethics Solomon R Benatar, Abdallah S Daar, and Peter A Singer PMCID: PMC1181869 What Can We Learn from Medical Whistleblowers? Jeanne Lenzer PMCID: PMC1140678 Neglected Diseases Visceral Leishmaniasis: New Health Tools Are Needed Asrat Hailu, Ahmed Mudawi Musa, Catherine Royce, and Monique Wasunna PMCID: PMC1181879 Perspectives CD4 Measurements in Patients with HIV: Are They Feasible for Poor Settings? Zvi Bentwich PMCID: PMC1176234 Health in Action The Global Fight against the Stigma of Schizophrenia Nadia Kadri and Norman Sartorius PMCID: PMC1181868 Policy Forum Pathways to “Evidence-Informed” Policy and Practice: A Framework for Action Shelley Bowen and Anthony B Zwi PMCID: PMC1140676 Five Futures for Academic Medicine Shally Awasthi, Jil Beardmore, Jocalyn Clark, Philip Hadridge, Hardi Madani, Ana Marusic, Gretchen Purcell, Margaret Rhoads, Karen Sliwa-Hähnle, Richard Smith, Tessa Tan-Torres Edejer, Peter Tugwell, Tim Underwood, and Robyn Ward on behalf of the International Campaign to Revitalise Academic Medicine PMCID: PMC1168885 Research in Translation The Genetics of Schizophrenia Patrick F Sullivan PMCID: PMC1181880 Case Report Pulmonary Embolism in a Woman Taking Oral Contraceptives and Valdecoxib Elizabeth J Westgate and Garret A FitzGerald PMCID: PMC1181877 Research Articles Lifetime Socioeconomic Position and Twins' Health: An Analysis of 308 Pairs of United States Women Twins Nancy Krieger, Jarvis T Chen, Brent A Coull, and Joe V Selby PMCID: PMC1181870 Host Heterogeneous Ribonucleoprotein K (hnRNP K) as a Potential Target to Suppress Hepatitis B Virus Replication Lisa F. P Ng, Marieta Chan, Soh-Ha Chan, Paul Chung-Pui Cheng, Eastwood Hon-Chiu Leung, Wei-Ning Chen, and Ee-Chee Ren PMCID: PMC1181871 Analgesic Therapy in Postherpetic Neuralgia: A Quantitative Systematic Review Kathleen Hempenstall, Turo J Nurmikko, Robert W Johnson, Roger P A'Hern, and Andrew S.C Rice PMCID: PMC1181872 Appropriate Models for the Management of Infectious Diseases Helen J Wearing, Pejman Rohani, and Matt J Keeling PMCID: PMC1181873 A Microchip CD4 Counting Method for HIV Monitoring in Resource-Poor Settings William R Rodriguez, Nicolaos Christodoulides, Pierre N Floriano, Susan Graham, Sanghamitra Mohanty, Meredith Dixon, Mina Hsiang, Trevor Peter, Shabnam Zavahir, Ibou Thior, Dwight Romanovicz, Bruce Bernard, Adrian P Goodey, Bruce D Walker, and John T McDevitt PMCID: PMC1176233 Artemisinin versus Nonartemisinin Combination Therapy for Uncomplicated Malaria: Randomized Clinical Trials from Four Sites in Uganda Adoke Yeka, Kristin Banek, Nathan Bakyaita, Sarah G Staedke, Moses R Kamya, Ambrose Talisuna, Fred Kironde, Samuel L Nsobya, Albert Kilian, Madeline Slater, Arthur Reingold, Philip J Rosenthal, Fred Wabwire-Mangen, and Grant Dorsey PMCID: PMC1181876 Correspondence and Other Communications Sustainable Super-Sprinkle: Powdered Local Foods Stacia Nordin PMCID: PMC1181874 A Further Response to Shah Ebrahim Michael Makover PMCID: PMC1181875 Authors' Reply: Sprinkles as a Home Fortification Strategy to Improve the Quality of Complementary Foods Stanley H Zlotkin, Claudia Schauer, Anna Christofides, Waseem Sharieff, Mélody C Tondeur, and S. M. Ziauddin Hyder PMCID: PMC1181878 Medical Journals, Academia, and Industry-Sponsored Clinical Trials Valeria Frighi PMCID: PMC1181882 Bitter Pills and Puffed Trials Stephen Senn PMCID: PMC1181883 Might Banning Trial Publication Do More Harm Than Good? David Sackett PMCID: PMC1181884 Little Fish Are Less Likely to Take the Bait Harvey Marcovitch PMCID: PMC1181885 Focus on the Funding and Production of Evidence Rather Than Its Publication Trevor Sheldon PMCID: PMC1181886 Applause to PLoS Medicine for Initiating Student Forum C. Jairaj Kumar and Abhizith Deoker PMCID: PMC1181887 Author's Reply Shah Ebrahim PMCID: PMC1181888 Editors' Reply Virginia Barbour, Barbara Cohen, and Gavin Yamey PMCID: PMC1181889 Bold Suggestion by Smith David Cohen PMCID: PMC1181890 |
