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Volume 6, issue 12, 2009

The Severity of Pandemic H1N1 Influenza in the United States, from April to July 2009: A Bayesian Analysis pp. 1-12

Anne M Presanis, Daniela De Angelis, The New York City Swine Flu Investigation Team 3 ¶, Angela Hagy, Carrie Reed, Steven Riley, Ben S Cooper, Lyn Finelli, Paul Biedrzycki and Marc Lipsitch

The APPLe Study: A Randomized, Community-Based, Placebo-Controlled Trial of Azithromycin for the Prevention of Preterm Birth, with Meta-Analysis pp. 1-8

Nynke R van den Broek, Sarah A White, Mark Goodall, Chikondi Ntonya, Edith Kayira, George Kafulafula and James P Neilson

A Comparison of Cost Effectiveness Using Data from Randomized Trials or Actual Clinical Practice: Selective Cox-2 Inhibitors as an Example pp. 1-10

Tjeerd-Pieter van Staa, Hubert G Leufkens, Bill Zhang and Liam Smeeth

Global Health Delivery 2.0: Using Open-Access Technologies for Transparency and Operations Research pp. 1-5

Duncan Smith-Rohrberg Maru, Aditya Sharma, Jason Andrews, Sanjay Basu, Jhapat Thapa, Shefali Oza, Chhitij Bashyal, Bibhav Acharya and Ryan Schwarz

Rape with Extreme Violence: The New Pathology in South Kivu, Democratic Republic of Congo pp. 1-5

Denis Mukengere Mukwege and Cathy Nangini

A New Year's Wish List for Authors, Reviewers, Readers—and Ourselves pp. 1-2

The PLoS Medicine Editors

Volume 6, issue 11, 2009

How Can We Support the Use of Systematic Reviews in Policymaking? pp. 1-6

John N Lavis

Mandatory Disclosure of Pharmaceutical Industry-Funded Events for Health Professionals pp. 1-5

Jane Robertson, Ray Moynihan, Emily Walkom, Lisa Bero and David Henry

Evaluating eHealth: How to Make Evaluation More Methodologically Robust pp. 1-5

Richard James Lilford, Jo Foster and Mike Pringle

Ethical Data Release in Genome-Wide Association Studies in Developing Countries pp. 1-4

Michael Parker, Susan J Bull, Jantina de Vries, Tsiri Agbenyega, Ogobara K Doumbo and Dominic P Kwiatkowski

The Unequal World of Health Data pp. 1-3

Peter Byass

Time for a “Third Wave” of Malaria Activism to Tackle the Drug Stock-out Crisis pp. 1-3

The PLoS Medicine Editors

Multiyear Climate Variability and Dengue—El Niño Southern Oscillation, Weather, and Dengue Incidence in Puerto Rico, Mexico, and Thailand: A Longitudinal Data Analysis pp. 1-9

Michael A Johansson, Derek A T Cummings and Gregory E Glass

Packages of Care for Dementia in Low- and Middle-Income Countries pp. 1-9

Martin J Prince, Daisy Acosta, Erico Castro-Costa, Jim Jackson and K S Shaji

Impact Monitoring of the National Scale Up of Zinc Treatment for Childhood Diarrhea in Bangladesh: Repeat Ecologic Surveys pp. 1-10

Charles P Larson, Unnati Rani Saha and Hazera Nazrul

Volume 6, issue 10, 2009

Packages of Care for Schizophrenia in Low- and Middle-Income Countries pp. 1-8

Jair de Jesus Mari, Denise Razzouk, Rangaswamy Thara, Julian Eaton and Graham Thornicroft

Five Years of Access and Activism pp. 1-2

The PLoS Medicine Editors

Lost but Not Forgotten—The Economics of Improving Patient Retention in AIDS Treatment Programs pp. 1-2

Gregory P Bisson and Jeffrey S A Stringer

Task Shifting for Scale-up of HIV Care: Evaluation of Nurse-Centered Antiretroviral Treatment at Rural Health Centers in Rwanda pp. 1-12

Fabienne Shumbusho, Johan van Griensven, David Lowrance, Innocent Turate, Mark A Weaver, Jessica Price and Agnes Binagwaho

A Prospective Nested Case-Control Study of Dengue in Infants: Rethinking and Refining the Antibody-Dependent Enhancement Dengue Hemorrhagic Fever Model pp. 1-11

Daniel H Libraty, Luz P Acosta, Veronica Tallo, Edelwisa Segubre-Mercado, Analisa Bautista, James A Potts, Richard G Jarman, In-Kyu Yoon, Robert V Gibbons, Job D Brion and Rosario Z Capeding

Cost-Effectiveness of Preventing Loss to Follow-up in HIV Treatment Programs: A Côte d'Ivoire Appraisal pp. 1-11

Elena Losina, Hapsatou Touré, Lauren M Uhler, Xavier Anglaret, A David Paltiel, Eric Balestre, Rochelle P Walensky, Eugène Messou, Milton C Weinstein, François Dabis, Kenneth A Freedberg, for the ART-LINC Collaboration of International Epidemiological Databases to Evaluate AIDS (IeDEA) and and the CEPAC International investigators

Packages of Care for Depression in Low- and Middle-Income Countries pp. 1-7

Vikram Patel, Gregory Simon, Neerja Chowdhary, Sylvia Kaaya and Ricardo Araya

Packages of Care for Epilepsy in Low- and Middle-Income Countries pp. 1-7

Caroline K Mbuba and Charles R Newton

Packages of Care for Alcohol Use Disorders in Low- And Middle-Income Countries pp. 1-7

Vivek Benegal, Prabhat K Chand and Isidore S Obot

Volume 6, issue 9, 2009

Trial Publication after Registration in ClinicalTrials.Gov: A Cross-Sectional Analysis pp. 1-9

Joseph S Ross, Gregory K Mulvey, Elizabeth M Hines, Steven E Nissen and Harlan M Krumholz

Grading Quality of Evidence and Strength of Recommendations: A Perspective pp. 1-3

Mohammed T Ansari, Alexander Tsertsvadze and David Moher

Considering Usual Medical Care in Clinical Trial Design pp. 1-6

Liza Dawson, Deborah A Zarin, Ezekiel J Emanuel, Lawrence M Friedman, Bimal Chaudhari and Steven N Goodman

Inflammatory Markers and Outcomes in Cardiovascular Disease pp. 1-2

Leonard Kritharides

Ensuring Integrity in Comparative Effectiveness Research: Accentuate the Negative pp. 1-2

The PLoS Medicine Editors

Ghostwriting: The Dirty Little Secret of Medical Publishing That Just Got Bigger pp. 1-2

The PLoS Medicine Editors

Standardized Treatment of Active Tuberculosis in Patients with Previous Treatment and/or with Mono-resistance to Isoniazid: A Systematic Review and Meta-analysis pp. 1-14

Dick Menzies, Andrea Benedetti, Anita Paydar, Sarah Royce, Madhukar Pai, William Burman, Andrew Vernon and Christian Lienhardt

Volume 6, issue 8, 2009

Sleep-Disordered Breathing and Mortality: A Prospective Cohort Study pp. 1-9

Naresh M Punjabi, Brian S Caffo, James L Goodwin, Daniel J Gottlieb, Anne B Newman, George T O'Connor, David M Rapoport, Susan Redline, Helaine E Resnick, John A Robbins, Eyal Shahar, Mark L Unruh and Jonathan M Samet

Can We Systematically Review Studies That Evaluate Complex Interventions? pp. 1-8

Sasha Shepperd, Simon Lewin, Sharon Straus, Mike Clarke, Martin P Eccles, Ray Fitzpatrick, Geoff Wong and Aziz Sheikh

Twenty-Five Years of Convoluted Health Reforms in Mexico pp. 1-8

Núria Homedes and Antonio Ugalde

Evaluating eHealth Interventions: The Need for Continuous Systemic Evaluation pp. 1-6

Lorraine Catwell and Aziz Sheikh

Consequences of Ongoing Civil Conflict in Somalia: Evidence for Public Health Responses pp. 1-5

Debarati Guha-Sapir and Ruwan Ratnayake

Schizophrenia and Violence: Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis pp. 1-15

Seena Fazel, Gautam Gulati, Louise Linsell, John R Geddes and Martin Grann

Making the “Right” Health Care Decisions: Why Values Matter pp. 1-2

The PLoS Medicine Editors

The Effect of Alternative Summary Statistics for Communicating Risk Reduction on Decisions about Taking Statins: A Randomized Trial pp. 1-10

Cheryl L L Carling, Doris Tove Kristoffersen, Victor M Montori, Jeph Herrin, Holger J Schünemann, Shaun Treweek, Elie A Akl and Andrew D Oxman

Prolonged Grief Disorder: Psychometric Validation of Criteria Proposed for DSM-V and ICD-11 pp. 1-12

Holly G Prigerson, Mardi J Horowitz, Selby C Jacobs, Colin M Parkes, Mihaela Aslan, Karl Goodkin, Beverley Raphael, Samuel J Marwit, Camille Wortman, Robert A Neimeyer, George Bonanno, Susan D Block, David Kissane, Paul Boelen, Andreas Maercker, Brett T Litz, Jeffrey G Johnson, Michael B First and Paul K Maciejewski

Volume 6, issue 7, 2009

Cost-Effectiveness of Interventions to Promote Physical Activity: A Modelling Study pp. 1-11

Linda J Cobiac, Theo Vos and Jan J Barendregt

The Preclinical Natural History of Serous Ovarian Cancer: Defining the Target for Early Detection pp. 1-14

Patrick O Brown and Chana Palmer

Ethics Without Borders pp. 1-2

The PLoS Medicine Editors

Focusing on Quality Patient Care in the New Global Subsidy for Malaria Medicines pp. 1-5

Suerie Moon, Carmen Pérez Casas, Jean-Marie Kindermans, Martin de Smet and Tido von Schoen-Angerer

Conflict, Crisis, and Abuse in Dharavi, Mumbai: Experiences from Six Years at a Centre for Vulnerable Women and Children pp. 1-6

Nayreen Daruwalla, Armida Fernandez, Jenny Salam, Nikhat Shaikh and David Osrin

Preferred Reporting Items for Systematic Reviews and Meta-Analyses: The PRISMA Statement pp. 1-6

David Moher, Alessandro Liberati, Jennifer Tetzlaff, Douglas G Altman and The PRISMA Group

Research Ethics Review in Humanitarian Contexts: The Experience of the Independent Ethics Review Board of Médecins Sans Frontières pp. 1-6

Doris Schopper, Ross Upshur, Francine Matthys, Jerome Amir Singh, Sunita Sheel Bandewar, Aasim Ahmad and Els van Dongen

The PRISMA Statement for Reporting Systematic Reviews and Meta-Analyses of Studies That Evaluate Health Care Interventions: Explanation and Elaboration pp. 1-28

Alessandro Liberati, Douglas G Altman, Jennifer Tetzlaff, Cynthia Mulrow, Peter C Gøtzsche, John P A Ioannidis, Mike Clarke, P J Devereaux, Jos Kleijnen and David Moher

Can the Relationship between Doctors and Drug Companies Ever Be a Healthy One? pp. 1-4

Emma D'Arcy and Ray Moynihan

Volume 6, issue 6, 2009

Seasonal Hunger: A Neglected Problem with Proven Solutions pp. 1-4

Bapu Vaitla, Stephen Devereux and Samuel Hauenstein Swan

Tracking Official Development Assistance for Reproductive Health in Conflict-Affected Countries pp. 1-13

Preeti Patel, Bayard Roberts, Samantha Guy, Louise Lee-Jones and Lesong Conteh

Funding for Reproductive Health in Conflict and Post-Conflict Countries: A Familiar Story of Inequity and Insufficient Data pp. 1-3

Paul B Spiegel, Nadine Cornier and Marian Schilperoord

Can We “Hedge” against the Development of Antiviral Resistance among Pandemic Influenza Viruses? pp. 1-2

David K Shay and Benjamin J Ridenhour

Will the Public's Health Fall Victim to the Home Foreclosure Epidemic? pp. 1-5

Gary G Bennett, Melissa Scharoun-Lee and Reginald Tucker-Seeley

Volume 6, issue 5, 2009

Evaluation and Recommendations on Good Clinical Laboratory Practice Guidelines for Phase I–III Clinical Trials pp. 1-5

Marcella Sarzotti-Kelsoe, Josephine Cox, Naana Cleland, Thomas Denny, John Hural, Leila Needham, Daniel Ozaki, Isaac R Rodriguez-Chavez, Gwynneth Stevens, Timothy Stiles, Tony Tarragona-Fiol and Anita Simkins

Preventing Bias in Cluster Randomised Trials pp. 1-6

Bruno Giraudeau and Philippe Ravaud

Hedging against Antiviral Resistance during the Next Influenza Pandemic Using Small Stockpiles of an Alternative Chemotherapy pp. 1-11

Joseph T Wu, Gabriel M Leung, Marc Lipsitch, Ben S Cooper and Steven Riley

Pneumococcal Serotypes and Mortality following Invasive Pneumococcal Disease: A Population-Based Cohort Study pp. 1-13

Zitta B Harboe, Reimar W Thomsen, Anders Riis, Palle Valentiner-Branth, Jens Jørgen Christensen, Lotte Lambertsen, Karen A Krogfelt, Helle B Konradsen and Thomas L Benfield

Volume 6, issue 4, 2009

The Preventable Causes of Death in the United States: Comparative Risk Assessment of Dietary, Lifestyle, and Metabolic Risk Factors pp. 1-23

Goodarz Danaei, Eric L Ding, Dariush Mozaffarian, Ben Taylor, Jürgen Rehm, Christopher J L Murray and Majid Ezzati

Global Health Actors Claim To Support Health System Strengthening—Is This Reality or Rhetoric? pp. 1-5

Bruno Marchal, Anna Cavalli and Guy Kegels

A Medical Journal for the World's Health Priorities pp. 1-2

The PLoS Medicine Editors

Volume 6, issue 3, 2009

Advanced Paternal Age Is Associated with Impaired Neurocognitive Outcomes during Infancy and Childhood pp. 1-9

Sukanta Saha, Adrian G Barnett, Claire Foldi, Thomas H Burne, Darryl W Eyles, Stephen L Buka and John J McGrath

Setting Research Priorities To Reduce Global Mortality from Childhood Diarrhoea by 2015 pp. 1-6

Olivier Fontaine, Margaret Kosek, Shinjini Bhatnagar, Cynthia Boschi-Pinto, Kit Yee Chan, Christopher Duggan, Homero Martinez, Hugo Ribeiro, Nigel C Rollins, Mohammed A Salam, Mathuram Santosham, John D Snyder, Alexander C Tsai, Beth Vargas and Igor Rudan

The Need for Outreach in Preventing Suicide among Young Veterans pp. 1-2

Jitender Sareen and Shay-Lee Belik

Contrasting Effects of Maternal and Paternal Age on Offspring Intelligence pp. 1-2

Mary Cannon

Media Portrayals of Suicide pp. 1-2

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A World Malaria Map: Plasmodium falciparum Endemicity in 2007 pp. 1-17

Simon I Hay, Carlos A Guerra, Peter W Gething, Anand P Patil, Andrew J Tatem, Abdisalan M Noor, Caroline W Kabaria, Bui H Manh, Iqbal R F Elyazar, Simon Brooker, David L Smith, Rana A Moyeed and Robert W Snow

Systematic Reviews of Genetic Association Studies pp. 1-7

Gurdeep S Sagoo, Julian Little and Julian P T Higgins

Volume 6, issue 2, 2009

Inadequate Dissemination of Phase I Trials: A Retrospective Cohort Study pp. 1-8

Evelyne Decullier, An-Wen Chan and François Chapuis

An Unbiased Scientific Record Should Be Everyone's Agenda pp. 1-3

The PLoS Medicine Editors

What Should Be Done To Tackle Ghostwriting in the Medical Literature? pp. 1-4

Peter C Gøtzsche, Jerome P Kassirer, Karen L Woolley, Elizabeth Wager, Adam Jacobs, Art Gertel and Cindy Hamilton

How Do Courts Set Health Policy? The Case of the Colombian Constitutional Court pp. 1-4

Alicia Ely Yamin and Oscar Parra-Vera

Neglected Disease Research and Development: How Much Are We Really Spending? pp. 1-10

Mary Moran, Javier Guzman, Anne-Laure Ropars, Alina McDonald, Nicole Jameson, Brenda Omune, Sam Ryan and Lindsey Wu

STrengthening the REporting of Genetic Association Studies (STREGA)— An Extension of the STROBE Statement pp. 1-13

Julian Little, Julian PT Higgins, John PA Ioannidis, David Moher, France Gagnon, Erik von Elm, Muin J Khoury, Barbara Cohen, George Davey-Smith, Jeremy Grimshaw, Paul Scheet, Marta Gwinn, Robin E Williamson, Guang Yong Zou, Kim Hutchings, Candice Y Johnson, Valerie Tait, Miriam Wiens, Jean Golding, Cornelia van Duijn, John McLaughlin, Andrew Paterson, George Wells, Isabel Fortier, Matthew Freedman, Maja Zecevic, Richard King, Claire Infante-Rivard, Alex Stewart and Nick Birkett

Volume 6, issue 1, 2009

Data Sources for Improving Estimates of the Global Burden of Injuries: Call for Contributors pp. 1-3

Kavi Bhalla, James Harrison, Jerry Abraham, Nagesh N Borse, Ronan Lyons, Soufiane Boufous, Limor Aharonson-Daniel and on behalf of the Global Burden of Disease Injury Expert Group

Abolishing User Fees in Africa pp. 1-3

Valéry Ridde and Slim Haddad

Explaining Adherence Success in Sub-Saharan Africa: An Ethnographic Study pp. 1-7

Norma C Ware, John Idoko, Sylvia Kaaya, Irene Andia Biraro, Monique A Wyatt, Oche Agbaji, Guerino Chalamilla and David R Bangsberg

Improving Maternal and Child Health in Difficult Environments: The Case For “Cross-Border” Health Care pp. 1-5

Gijs Walraven, Semira Manaseki-Holland, Abid Hussain and John B Tomaro

Condom Access in South African Schools: Law, Policy, and Practice pp. 1-5

Juliana Han and Michael L Bennish

Effect of Removing Direct Payment for Health Care on Utilisation and Health Outcomes in Ghanaian Children: A Randomised Controlled Trial pp. 1-1

Evelyn Korkor Ansah, Solomon Narh-Bana, Sabina Asiamah, Vivian Dzordzordzi, Kingsley Biantey, Kakra Dickson, John Owusu Gyapong, Kwadwo Ansah Koram, Brian M Greenwood, Anne Mills and Christopher J M Whitty