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Table of Contents | June 2007

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Occupational Medicine: From the Factory to the Film Industry.

This 1941 image of factory workers assembling storage batteries takes its theme from this month's editorial, "The Changing Face of Occupational Medicine." The editorial topic was suggested by the Policy Forum by Corita Grudzen and Peter Kerndt (Grudzen CR, Kerndt PR [2007] The adult film industry: Time to regulate? PLoS Med 4: e126 doi:10.1371/journal.pmed.0040126) on the need for the adult film industry to self-regulate to protect workers' rights and for occupational medicine to adapt to the requirements of workers today.

Image Credit: Image provided by the US Centers for Disease Control, from the Public Health Bulletin No. 262, 1941

Editorial

The Changing Face of Occupational Medicine

The PLoS Medicine Debate

What Is the Best Approach to Treating Schizophrenia in Developing Countries?

Vikram Patel, Saeed Farooq, R Thara

Essay

Road Traffic Injury Is an Escalating Burden in Africa and Deserves Proportionate Research Efforts

Emmanuel Lagarde

Perspectives

Late HIV Diagnosis: Bad Medicine and Worse Public Health

Ronald O Valdiserri

Influenza Pandemic Vaccines: Spread Them Thin?

Christophe Fraser

Serial Testing for Tuberculosis: Can We Make Sense of T Cell Assay Conversions and Reversions?

Madhukar Pai, Richard O'Brien

Can Pay-for-Performance Improve Quality and Reduce Health Disparities?

Katie Coleman, Richard Hamblin

Physical Activity Reduces the Risk of Fragility Fracture

Harri Sievänen, Pekka Kannus

Health in Action

HIV Prevention, Care, and Treatment in Two Prisons in Thailand

David Wilson, Nathan Ford, Verapun Ngammee, Arlene Chua, Moe Kyaw Kyaw

Policy Forums

The Adult Film Industry: Time to Regulate?

Corita R Grudzen, Peter R Kerndt

The Great Failure of Malaria Control in Africa: A District Perspective from Burkina Faso

Bocar Kouyaté, Ali Sie, Maurice Yé, Manuela De Allegri, Olaf Müller

Student Forum

Teaching Global Health at the Frontlines

Javier Villafuerte-Galvez, Walter H Curioso

Research Articles

Factors Associated with Findings of Published Trials of Drug–Drug Comparisons: Why Some Statins Appear More Efficacious than Others

Lisa Bero, Fieke Oostvogel, Peter Bacchetti, Kirby Lee

Costs and Consequences of the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention's Recommendations for Opt-Out HIV Testing

David R Holtgrave

An Epidemiological Network Model for Disease Outbreak Detection

Ben Y Reis, Isaac S Kohane, Kenneth D Mandl

Optimizing the Dose of Pre-Pandemic Influenza Vaccines to Reduce the Infection Attack Rate

Steven Riley, Joseph T Wu, Gabriel M Leung

Commercial Serological Antibody Detection Tests for the Diagnosis of Pulmonary Tuberculosis: A Systematic Review

Karen R Steingart, Megan Henry, Suman Laal, Philip C Hopewell, Andrew Ramsay, Dick Menzies, Jane Cunningham, Karin Weldingh, Madhukar Pai

Longitudinal Assessment of an ELISPOT Test for Mycobacterium tuberculosis Infection

Philip C Hill, Roger H Brookes, Annette Fox, Dolly Jackson-Sillah, David J Jeffries, Moses D Lugos, Simon A Donkor, Ifedayo M Adetifa, Bouke C de Jong, Alex M Aiken, Richard A Adegbola, Keith P McAdam

Thioredoxin Glutathione Reductase from Schistosoma mansoni: An Essential Parasite Enzyme and a Key Drug Target

Angela N Kuntz, Elisabeth Davioud-Charvet, Ahmed A Sayed, Lindsay L Califf, Jean Dessolin, Elias S. J Arnér, David L Williams

Ethnic Disparities in Diabetes Management and Pay-for-Performance in the UK: The Wandsworth Prospective Diabetes Study

Christopher Millett, Jeremy Gray, Sonia Saxena, Gopalakrishnan Netuveli, Kamlesh Khunti, Azeem Majeed

Leisure Physical Activity and the Risk of Fracture in Men

Karl Michaëlsson, Helena Olofsson, Karin Jensevik, Sune Larsson, Hans Mallmin, Lars Berglund, Bengt Vessby, Håkan Melhus

Vascular Endothelial Growth Factor Mediates Intracrine Survival in Human Breast Carcinoma Cells through Internally Expressed VEGFR1/FLT1

Tae-Hee Lee, Seyha Seng, Masayuki Sekine, Cimona Hinton, Yigong Fu, Hava Karsenty Avraham, Shalom Avraham

Canine and Human Visual Cortex Intact and Responsive Despite Early Retinal Blindness from RPE65 Mutation

Geoffrey K Aguirre, András M Komáromy, Artur V Cideciyan, David H Brainard, Tomas S Aleman, Alejandro J Roman, Brian B Avants, James C Gee, Marc Korczykowski, William W Hauswirth, Gregory M Acland, Gustavo D Aguirre, Geoffrey K Aguirre

Correspondence

Reporting of Systematic Reviews: The Challenge of Genetic Association Studies

Muin J Khoury, Julian Little, Julian Higgins, John P. A Ioannidis, Marta Gwinn

Neuraminidase Antibodies and H5N1: Geographic-Dependent Influenza Epidemiology Could Determine Cross-Protection against Emerging Strains

Jesus F Bermejo-Martin, David J Kelvin, Yi Guan, Honglin Chen, Pilar Perez-Breña, Inmaculada Casas, Eduardo Arranz, Raul O de Lejarazu