| | Editorial Ich Weiss Nicht Was Soll Es Bedeuten: Language Matters in Medicine The PLoS Medicine Editors PMCID: PMC1388070 Synopses Minority Participation in Health Research—Facts and Fiction PMCID: PMC1298949 Death by Necrosis: The Early Stages of Type 1 Diabetes PMCID: PMC1316068 Endothelial Lipase: A New Risk Factor for Atherosclerosis? PMCID: PMC1316069 Toward a Better Understanding of Human Prion Diseases PMCID: PMC1316070 Measuring Mortality in Developing Countries PMCID: PMC1316071 Pathological Clues to How the SARS Virus Kills PMCID: PMC1324952 Variants in the DC-SIGN–Encoding Gene
CD209 and Susceptibility to Tuberculosis
PMCID: PMC1324953 The Cost of Screening Blood Donations for West Nile Virus PMCID: PMC1324954 Essays The Mental Health Risks of Adolescent Cannabis Use Wayne Hall PMCID: PMC1351917 Lung Infection—A Public Health Priority Joseph P Mizgerd PMCID: PMC1326257 Perspectives Why Are Ethnic Minorities Under-Represented in US Research Studies? Aziz Sheikh PMCID: PMC1322037 Screening the United States Blood Supply for West Nile Virus: A Question of Blood, Dollars, and Sense Bruce Y Lee and Brad J Biggerstaff PMCID: PMC1351156 The Million Death Study in India: Can It Help in Monitoring the Millennium Development Goals? Zulfiqar A Bhutta PMCID: PMC1361779 Health in Action The Battle to Reduce Maternal Deaths in Southern Lima Luis Vega PMCID: PMC1326263 Policy Forum Do We Need to Put Society First? The Potential for Tragedy in Antimicrobial Resistance Kevin R Foster and Hajo Grundmann PMCID: PMC1325265 Bioethical Implications of Globalization: An International Consortium Project of the European Commission Thomas E Novotny, Emilio Mordini, Ruth Chadwick, J. Martin Pedersen, Fabrizio Fabbri, Reidar Lie, Natapong Thanachaiboot, Elias Mossialos, and Govin Permanand PMCID: PMC1351155 Research in Translation How Do Viral and Host Factors Modulate the Sexual Transmission of HIV? Can Transmission Be Blocked? Kalpana Gupta and Per Johan Klasse PMCID: PMC1388058 Learning Forum Trachoma and the Need for a Coordinated Community-Wide Response: A Case-Based Study Heathcote R Wright, Jill E Keeffe, and Hugh R Taylor PMCID: PMC1388047 Research Articles Analysis of Prion Strains by PrPSc Profiling in Sporadic Creutzfeldt–Jakob Disease Gaby Schoch, Harald Seeger, Julien Bogousslavsky, Markus Tolnay, Robert Charles Janzer, Adriano Aguzzi, and Markus Glatzel PMCID: PMC1316067 Interleukin-1 Stimulates β-Cell Necrosis and Release of the Immunological Adjuvant HMGB1 Sarah A Steer, Anna L Scarim, Kari T Chambers, and John A Corbett PMCID: PMC1316065 Prospective Study of One Million Deaths in India: Rationale, Design, and Validation Results Prabhat Jha, Vendhan Gajalakshmi, Prakash C Gupta, Rajesh Kumar, Prem Mony, Neeraj Dhingra, Richard Peto, and RGI-CGHR Prospective Study Collaborators PMCID: PMC1316066 Are Racial and Ethnic Minorities Less Willing to Participate in Health Research? David Wendler, Raynard Kington, Jennifer Madans, Gretchen Van Wye, Heidi Christ-Schmidt, Laura A Pratt, Otis W Brawley, Cary P Gross, and Ezekiel Emanuel PMCID: PMC1298944 Promoter Variation in the DC-SIGN–Encoding Gene CD209 Is Associated with Tuberculosis Luis B Barreiro, Olivier Neyrolles, Chantal L Babb, Ludovic Tailleux, Hélène Quach, Ken McElreavey, Paul D. van Helden, Eileen G Hoal, Brigitte Gicquel, and Lluis Quintana-Murci PMCID: PMC1324949 Cost-Effectiveness of Alternative Blood-Screening Strategies for West Nile Virus in the United States Caroline T Korves, Sue J Goldie, and Megan B Murray PMCID: PMC1324950 Endothelial Lipase Concentrations Are Increased in Metabolic Syndrome and Associated with Coronary Atherosclerosis Karen O Badellino, Megan L Wolfe, Muredach P Reilly, and Daniel J Rader PMCID: PMC1316064 Time Course and Cellular Localization of SARS-CoV Nucleoprotein and RNA in Lungs from Fatal Cases of SARS John M Nicholls, Jagdish Butany, Leo L. M Poon, Kwok H Chan, Swan Lip Beh, Susan Poutanen, J. S. Malik Peiris, and Maria Wong PMCID: PMC1324951 Correspondence and Other Communications Authors' Reply Randall S Stafford, Veronica Monti, and Jun Ma PMCID: PMC1388061 Other Studies Show Aspirin Use Is High Jonathan Brown PMCID: PMC1388062 Does Genetic Testing Really Improve the Prediction of Future Type 2 Diabetes? A. Cecile J. W Janssens, Marta Gwinn, Subramony Subramonia-Iyer, and Muin J Khoury PMCID: PMC1388063 Community-Based Learning in a Time of Conflict Bishnu Giri and P. Ravi Shankar PMCID: PMC1388064 Authors' Reply Jeffrey R Lacasse and Jonathan Leo PMCID: PMC1388065 Why Did the FDA Approve These Advertisements? David Oaks PMCID: PMC1388066 Should Industry Speak the Loudest in Informing the Public on Medical Matters? Gordon McCarter PMCID: PMC1388067 Consumer Advertising Can Be Misleading Karl Rickels PMCID: PMC1388068 Evident Exception in Clinical Practice Not Sufficient to Break Traditional Hypothesis Milan Sarek PMCID: PMC1388069 Authors' Reply Valeriya Lyssenko, Dragi Anevski, Peter Almgren, and Leif Groop PMCID: PMC1388071 |
