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Volume 5, issue 12, 2008

Mental Disorders among Homeless People in Western Countries pp. 1-2

Helen Herrman

The Disconnect between China's Public Health and Public Security Responses to Injection Drug Use, and the Consequences for Human Rights pp. 1-2

Stephen Koester

Poverty and Cataract—A Deeper Look at a Complex Issue pp. 1-2

Susan Lewallen

The Dirty War Index: Statistical Issues, Feasibility, and Interpretation pp. 1-2

Nathan Taback

The Prevalence of Mental Disorders among the Homeless in Western Countries: Systematic Review and Meta-Regression Analysis pp. 1-1

Seena Fazel, Vivek Khosla, Helen Doll and John Geddes

Ovarian Carcinoma Subtypes Are Different Diseases: Implications for Biomarker Studies pp. 1-1

Martin Köbel, Steve E Kalloger, Niki Boyd, Steven McKinney, Erika Mehl, Chana Palmer, Samuel Leung, Nathan J Bowen, Diana N Ionescu, Ashish Rajput, Leah M Prentice, Dianne Miller, Jennifer Santos, Kenneth Swenerton, C Blake Gilks and David Huntsman

A Case-Control Study to Assess the Relationship between Poverty and Visual Impairment from Cataract in Kenya, the Philippines, and Bangladesh pp. 1-13

Hannah Kuper, Sarah Polack, Cristina Eusebio, Wanjiku Mathenge, Zakia Wadud and Allen Foster

Volume 5, issue 11, 2008

Is Private Health Care the Answer to the Health Problems of the World's Poor? pp. 1-5

Kara Hanson, Lucy Gilson, Catherine Goodman, Anne Mills, Richard Smith, Richard Feachem, Neelam Sekhri Feachem, Tracey Perez Koehlmoos and Heather Kinlaw

Bias, Spin, and Misreporting: Time for Full Access to Trial Protocols and Results pp. 1-3

An-Wen Chan

The Long-Term Effects of a Peer-Led Sex Education Programme (RIPPLE): A Cluster Randomised Trial in Schools in England pp. 1-12

Judith Stephenson, Vicki Strange, Elizabeth Allen, Andrew Copas, Anne Johnson, Chris Bonell, Abdel Babiker, Ann Oakley and the RIPPLE Study Team

The Chilling Effect: How Do Researchers React to Controversy? pp. 1-8

Joanna Kempner

Reporting Bias in Drug Trials Submitted to the Food and Drug Administration: Review of Publication and Presentation pp. 1-10

Kristin Rising, Peter Bacchetti and Lisa Bero

Mathematical Models for a New Era of Malaria Eradication pp. 1-2

Maciej F Boni, Caroline O Buckee and Nicholas J White

Volume 5, issue 10, 2008

Why Current Publication Practices May Distort Science pp. 1-5

Neal S Young, John P A Ioannidis and Omar Al-Ubaydli

Vitamin K Supplementation in Postmenopausal Women with Osteopenia (ECKO Trial): A Randomized Controlled Trial pp. 1-12

Angela M Cheung, Lianne Tile, Yuna Lee, George Tomlinson, Gillian Hawker, Judy Scher, Hanxian Hu, Reinhold Vieth, Lilian Thompson, Sophie Jamal and Robert Josse

The Relationship between Proteinuria and Coronary Risk: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis pp. 1-10

Vlado Perkovic, Christine Verdon, Toshiharu Ninomiya, Federica Barzi, Alan Cass, Anushka Patel, Meg Jardine, Martin Gallagher, Fiona Turnbull, John Chalmers, Jonathan Craig and Rachel Huxley

Reform Should Make Health the First Item of Business pp. 1-2

The PLoS Medicine Editors

Volume 5, issue 9, 2008

Lung Cancer Occurrence in Never-Smokers: An Analysis of 13 Cohorts and 22 Cancer Registry Studies pp. 1-15

Michael J Thun, Lindsay M Hannan, Lucile L Adams-Campbell, Paolo Boffetta, Julie E Buring, Diane Feskanich, W Dana Flanders, Sun Ha Jee, Kota Katanoda, Laurence N Kolonel, I-Min Lee, Tomomi Marugame, Julie R Palmer, Elio Riboli, Tomotaka Sobue, Erika Avila-Tang, Lynne R Wilkens and Jon M Samet

Birth Size and Breast Cancer Risk: Re-analysis of Individual Participant Data from 32 Studies pp. 1-15

Isabel dos Santos Silva, Bianca De Stavola, Valerie McCormack and Collaborative Group on Pre-Natal Risk Factors and Subsequent Risk of Breast Cancer

Tobacco Control Yields Clear Dividends for Health and Wealth pp. 1-2

Kelley Lee

Key Issues in Conducting a Meta-Analysis of Gene Expression Microarray Datasets pp. 1-13

Adaikalavan Ramasamy, Adrian Mondry, Chris C Holmes and Douglas G Altman

Making Sense of Non-Financial Competing Interests pp. 1-3

The PLoS Medicine Editors

Towards a Data Sharing Culture: Recommendations for Leadership from Academic Health Centers pp. 1-5

Heather A Piwowar, Michael J Becich, Howard Bilofsky, Rebecca S Crowley and on behalf of the caBIG Data Sharing and Intellectual Capital Workspace

Ethical and Practical Issues Associated with Aggregating Databases pp. 1-5

David R Karp, Shelley Carlin, Robert Cook-Deegan, Daniel E Ford, Gail Geller, David N Glass, Hank Greely, Joel Guthridge, Jeffrey Kahn, Richard Kaslow, Cheryl Kraft, Kathleen MacQueen, Bradley Malin, Richard H Scheuerman and Jeremy Sugarman

Volume 5, issue 8, 2008

Developing a Prognostic Model for Traumatic Brain Injury—A Missed Opportunity? pp. 1-3

Neil H Young and Peter J D Andrews

Children Are Not Just Small Adults: The Urgent Need for High-Quality Trial Evidence in Children pp. 1-3

Terry P Klassen, Lisa Hartling, Jonathan C Craig and Martin Offringa

Cancer Screening: A Mathematical Model Relating Secreted Blood Biomarker Levels to Tumor Sizes pp. 1-11

Amelie M Lutz, Juergen K Willmann, Frank V Cochran, Pritha Ray and Sanjiv S Gambhir

Mendelian Randomisation and Causal Inference in Observational Epidemiology pp. 1-6

Nuala A Sheehan, Vanessa Didelez, Paul R Burton and Martin D Tobin

Two Faces of Chondroitin Sulfate Proteoglycan in Spinal Cord Repair: A Role in Microglia/Macrophage Activation pp. 1-16

Asya Rolls, Ravid Shechter, Anat London, Yifat Segev, Jasmin Jacob-Hirsch, Ninette Amariglio, Gidon Rechavi and Michal Schwartz

Inflammation, Insulin Resistance, and Diabetes—Mendelian Randomization Using CRP Haplotypes Points Upstream pp. 1-9

Eric J Brunner, Mika Kivimäki, Daniel R Witte, Debbie A Lawlor, George Davey Smith, Jackie A Cooper, Michelle Miller, Gordon D O Lowe, Ann Rumley, Juan P Casas, Tina Shah, Steve E Humphries, Aroon D Hingorani, Michael G Marmot, Nicholas J Timpson and Meena Kumari

Assessing Antimalarial Efficacy in a Time of Change to Artemisinin-Based Combination Therapies: The Role of Médecins Sans Frontières pp. 1-9

Jean-Paul Guthmann, Francesco Checchi, Ingrid van den Broek, Suna Balkan, Michel van Herp, Eric Comte, Oscar Bernal, Jean-Marie Kindermans, Sarah Venis, Dominique Legros and Philippe J Guerin

Effect of the California Tobacco Control Program on Personal Health Care Expenditures pp. 1-9

James M Lightwood, Alexis Dinno and Stanton A Glantz

Greater Response to Placebo in Children Than in Adults: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis in Drug-Resistant Partial Epilepsy pp. 1-15

Sylvain Rheims, Michel Cucherat, Alexis Arzimanoglou and Philippe Ryvlin

Volume 5, issue 7, 2008

Divergent Goals and Commitments in Global Malaria Intervention pp. 1-2

Anthony E Kiszewski

Next Stop, Don't Block the Doors: Opening Up Access to Clinical Trials Results pp. 1-2

The PLoS Medicine Editors

Evidence-Based Tuberculosis Diagnosis pp. 1-7

Madhukar Pai, Andrew Ramsay and Richard O'Brien

International Monetary Fund Programs and Tuberculosis Outcomes in Post-Communist Countries pp. 1-12

David Stuckler, Lawrence P King and Sanjay Basu

Documenting Mortality in Crises: What Keeps Us from Doing Better? pp. 1-8

Francesco Checchi and Les Roberts

International Funding for Malaria Control in Relation to Populations at Risk of Stable Plasmodium falciparum Transmission pp. 1-11

Robert W Snow, Carlos A Guerra, Juliette J Mutheu and Simon I Hay

Diabetes Mellitus Increases the Risk of Active Tuberculosis: A Systematic Review of 13 Observational Studies pp. 1-11

Christie Y Jeon and Megan B Murray

The Effects of International Monetary Fund Loans on Health Outcomes pp. 1-3

Megan Murray and Gary King

Scaling Up Programmatic Management of Drug-Resistant Tuberculosis: A Prioritized Research Agenda pp. 1-6

Frank G J Cobelens, Einar Heldal, Michael E Kimerling, Carole D Mitnick, Laura J Podewils, Rajeswari Ramachandran, Hans L Rieder, Karin Weyer, Matteo Zignol and on behalf of the Working Group on MDR-TB of the Stop TB Partnership

Volume 5, issue 6, 2008

Guidelines for Reporting Health Research: The EQUATOR Network's Survey of Guideline Authors pp. 1-6

Iveta Simera, Douglas G Altman, David Moher, Kenneth F Schulz and John Hoey

Gene-Environment Interaction in the Onset of Eczema in Infancy: Filaggrin Loss-of-Function Mutations Enhanced by Neonatal Cat Exposure pp. 1-7

Hans Bisgaard, Angela Simpson, Colin NA Palmer, Klaus Bønnelykke, Irwin Mclean, Somnath Mukhopadhyay, Christian B Pipper, Liselotte B Halkjaer, Brian Lipworth, Jenny Hankinson, Ashley Woodcock and Adnan Custovic

Volume 5, issue 5, 2008

Communicating the Results of Clinical Research to Participants: Attitudes, Practices, and Future Directions pp. 1-7

David I Shalowitz and Franklin G Miller

Expectations for Recovery Important in the Prognosis of Whiplash Injuries pp. 1-8

Lena W Holm, Linda J Carroll, J David Cassidy, Eva Skillgate and Anders Ahlbom

Disease Mongering Is Now Part of the Global Health Debate pp. 1-3

Ray Moynihan, Evan Doran and David Henry

Retail Sales of Alcohol and the Risk of Being a Victim of Assault pp. 1-3

Russell Bennetts and Rachel Seabrook

How Do US Journalists Cover Treatments, Tests, Products, and Procedures? An Evaluation of 500 Stories pp. 1-5

Gary Schwitzer

A Paradigm Shift to Prevent HIV Drug Resistance pp. 1-2

David R Bangsberg

Volume 5, issue 4, 2008

A Systematic Review of Studies That Aim to Determine Which Outcomes to Measure in Clinical Trials in Children pp. 1-10

Ian Sinha, Leanne Jones, Rosalind L Smyth and Paula R Williamson

Better Reporting, Better Research: Guidelines and Guidance in PLoS Medicine pp. 1-2

The PLoS Medicine Editors

Standardising Outcomes in Paediatric Clinical Trials pp. 1-2

Mike Clarke

The Reversal of Fortunes: Trends in County Mortality and Cross-County Mortality Disparities in the United States pp. 1-12

Majid Ezzati, Ari B Friedman, Sandeep C Kulkarni and Christopher J L Murray

Estimating Incidence from Prevalence in Generalised HIV Epidemics: Methods and Validation pp. 1-12

Timothy B Hallett, Basia Zaba, Jim Todd, Ben Lopman, Wambura Mwita, Sam Biraro, Simon Gregson, J Ties Boerma and on behalf of the ALPHA Network

Progress in Vaccination against Haemophilus influenzae type b in the Americas pp. 1-7

M Carolina Danovaro-Holliday, Salvador Garcia, Ciro de Quadros, Gina Tambini and Jon K Andrus

Chile's Neoliberal Health Reform: An Assessment and a Critique pp. 1-6

Jean-Pierre Unger, Pierre De Paepe, Giorgio Solimano Cantuarias and Oscar Arteaga Herrera

Long-Term Interleukin-6 Levels and Subsequent Risk of Coronary Heart Disease: Two New Prospective Studies and a Systematic Review pp. 1-11

John Danesh, Stephen Kaptoge, Andrea G Mann, Nadeem Sarwar, Angela Wood, Sara B Angleman, Frances Wensley, Julian P T Higgins, Lucy Lennon, Gudny Eiriksdottir, Ann Rumley, Peter H Whincup, Gordon D O Lowe and Vilmundur Gudnason

Volume 5, issue 3, 2008

Could an Open-Source Clinical Trial Data-Management System Be What We Have All Been Looking For? pp. 1-3

Greg W Fegan and Trudie A Lang

Determining Origins and Causes of Childhood Obesity via Mendelian Randomization Analysis pp. 1-3

Eric L Ding and Frank B Hu

Alcohol Intake and Blood Pressure: A Systematic Review Implementing a Mendelian Randomization Approach pp. 1-11

Lina Chen, George Davey Smith, Roger M Harbord and Sarah J Lewis

Observational Research, Randomised Trials, and Two Views of Medical Science pp. 1-5

Jan P Vandenbroucke

Social Contacts and Mixing Patterns Relevant to the Spread of Infectious Diseases pp. 1-1

Joël Mossong, Niel Hens, Mark Jit, Philippe Beutels, Kari Auranen, Rafael Mikolajczyk, Marco Massari, Stefania Salmaso, Gianpaolo Scalia Tomba, Jacco Wallinga, Janneke Heijne, Malgorzata Sadkowska-Todys, Magdalena Rosinska and W John Edmunds

Exploring the Developmental Overnutrition Hypothesis Using Parental–Offspring Associations and FTO as an Instrumental Variable pp. 1-10

Debbie A Lawlor, Nicholas J Timpson, Roger M Harbord, Sam Leary, Andy Ness, Mark I McCarthy, Timothy M Frayling, Andrew T Hattersley and George Davey Smith

Volume 5, issue 2, 2008

Lifetime Medical Costs of Obesity: Prevention No Cure for Increasing Health Expenditure pp. 1-8

Pieter H M van Baal, Johan J Polder, G Ardine de Wit, Rudolf T Hoogenveen, Talitha L Feenstra, Hendriek C Boshuizen, Peter M Engelfriet and Werner Brouwer

Does Preventing Obesity Lead to Reduced Health-Care Costs? pp. 1-2

Klim McPherson

The Neglected Diseases Section in PLoS Medicine: Moving Beyond Tropical Infections pp. 1-2

The PLoS Medicine Editors

Initial Severity and Antidepressant Benefits: A Meta-Analysis of Data Submitted to the Food and Drug Administration pp. 1-9

Irving Kirsch, Brett J Deacon, Tania B Huedo-Medina, Alan Scoboria, Thomas J Moore and Blair T Johnson

The Fall and Rise of US Inequities in Premature Mortality: 1960–2002 pp. 1-15

Nancy Krieger, David H Rehkopf, Jarvis T Chen, Pamela D Waterman, Enrico Marcelli and Malinda Kennedy

Volume 5, issue 1, 2008

The Cost of Pushing Pills: A New Estimate of Pharmaceutical Promotion Expenditures in the United States pp. 1-5

Marc-André Gagnon and Joel Lexchin

Why Pakistani Medical Graduates Must Remain Free to Emigrate pp. 1-3

Zarmeneh Aly and Fawad Taj

In the Era of Systematic Reviews, Does the Size of an Individual Trial Still Matter? pp. 1-3

Gordon H Guyatt, Edward J Mills and Diana Elbourne

From Theory to Practice: Translating Research into Health Outcomes pp. 1-2

The PLoS Medicine Editors

Model-Based Insights into Multi-Host Transmission and Control of Schistosomiasis pp. 1-2

Song Liang and Robert C Spear

CONSORT for Reporting Randomized Controlled Trials in Journal and Conference Abstracts: Explanation and Elaboration pp. 1-9

Sally Hopewell, Mike Clarke, David Moher, Elizabeth Wager, Philippa Middleton, Douglas G Altman, Kenneth F Schulz and and the CONSORT Group