PLoS medicine
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Anna Lena Lopez and colleagues give an overview of the cholera situation in Vietnam and discuss how an oral cholera vaccine was developed and used as a component of a public health strategy against the disease. Please see later in the article for the Editors' Summary
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Richard Steketee discusses the two studies by Clara Menendez and colleagues that describe using mefloquine for the intermittent preventative therapy of malaria in both HIV positive and HIV negative pregnant women and outlines the next steps. Please see later in the article for the Editors' Summary
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Randomized Controlled Trial
Proton pump inhibitors and hospitalization with hypomagnesemia: a population-based case-control study.
Some evidence suggests that proton pump inhibitors (PPIs) are an under-appreciated risk factor for hypomagnesemia. Whether hospitalization with hypomagnesemia is associated with use of PPIs is unknown. ⋯ PPIs are associated with a small increased risk of hospitalization with hypomagnesemia among patients also receiving diuretics. Physicians should be aware of this association, particularly for patients with hypomagnesemia. Please see later in the article for the Editors' Summary.