PLoS medicine
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PLoS Med.
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In studying the genetics of suicide, should personality be used as an endophenotype (an intermediate trait lying somewhere on the developmental pathway from genes to phenotype)?
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Most regulatory agencies, says Mintzes, fail to treat regulation of drug promotion as a public health concern. Unless this changes, she says, the public can expect more unfettered disease mongering.
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Berhane discusses a new study in PLoS Medicine that evaluated the effect of improved water access in rural Ethiopia upon birth rate and child malnutrition.
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Historical Article
Female sexual dysfunction: a case study of disease mongering and activist resistance.
Tiefer highlights key steps in the "creation" of a new diagnosis, female sexual dysfunction, and of the campaign to challenge its reductionist approach to women's sexual problems.