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Volume 13, issue 11, 2016

Minimally Invasive Autopsy: A New Paradigm for Understanding Global Health? pp. 1-4

Peter Byass

Genetic Predisposition to an Impaired Metabolism of the Branched-Chain Amino Acids and Risk of Type 2 Diabetes: A Mendelian Randomisation Analysis pp. 1-22

Luca A Lotta, Robert A Scott, Stephen J Sharp, Stephen Burgess, Jian’an Luan, Therese Tillin, Amand F Schmidt, Fumiaki Imamura, Isobel D Stewart, John R B Perry, Luke Marney, Albert Koulman, Edward D Karoly, Nita G Forouhi, Rasmus J O Sjögren, Erik Näslund, Juleen R Zierath, Anna Krook, David B Savage, Julian L Griffin, Nishi Chaturvedi, Aroon D Hingorani, Kay-Tee Khaw, Inês Barroso, Mark I McCarthy, Stephen O’Rahilly, Nicholas J Wareham and Claudia Langenberg

Volume 13, issue 10, 2016

The Tuberculosis Cascade of Care in India’s Public Sector: A Systematic Review and Meta-analysis pp. 1-38

Ramnath Subbaraman, Ruvandhi R Nathavitharana, Srinath Satyanarayana, Madhukar Pai, Beena E Thomas, Vineet K Chadha, Kiran Rade, Soumya Swaminathan and Kenneth H Mayer

A Holistic, Person-Centred Care Model for Victims of Sexual Violence in Democratic Republic of Congo: The Panzi Hospital One-Stop Centre Model of Care pp. 1-9

Denis Mukwege and Marie Berg

Volume 13, issue 9, 2016

Reporting of Adverse Events in Published and Unpublished Studies of Health Care Interventions: A Systematic Review pp. 1-22

Susan Golder, Yoon K Loke, Kath Wright and Gill Norman

The Policy Dystopia Model: An Interpretive Analysis of Tobacco Industry Political Activity pp. 1-21

Selda Ulucanlar, Gary J Fooks and Anna B Gilmore

International Criteria for Acute Kidney Injury: Advantages and Remaining Challenges pp. 1-8

Nicholas M Selby, Richard J Fluck, Nitin V Kolhe and Maarten W Taal

"The Policy Dystopia Model": Implications for Health Advocates and Democratic Governance pp. 1-3

Elizabeth A Smith and Patricia A McDaniel

Associations between Extending Access to Primary Care and Emergency Department Visits: A Difference-In-Differences Analysis pp. 1-19

William Whittaker, Laura Anselmi, Søren Kristensen, Yiu-Shing Lau, Simon Bailey, Peter Bower, Katherine Checkland, Rebecca Elvey, Katy Rothwell, Jonathan Stokes and Damian Hodgson

Association between Adult Height and Risk of Colorectal, Lung, and Prostate Cancer: Results from Meta-analyses of Prospective Studies and Mendelian Randomization Analyses pp. 1-19

Nikhil K Khankari, Xiao-Ou Shu, Wanqing Wen, Peter Kraft, Sara Lindström, Ulrike Peters, Joellen Schildkraut, Fredrick Schumacher, Paolo Bofetta, Angela Risch, Heike Bickeböller, Christopher I Amos, Douglas Easton, Rosalind A Eeles, Stephen B Gruber, Christopher A Haiman, David J Hunter, Stephen J Chanock, Brandon L Pierce, Wei Zheng, on behalf of the Colorectal Transdisciplinary Study (corect), Discovery, Biology, and Risk of Inherited Variants in Breast Cancer (DRIVE), Elucidating Loci Involved in Prostate Cancer Susceptibility (ellipse) and Transdisciplinary Research in Cancer of the Lung (tricl)

Volume 13, issue 8, 2016

Accelerating the Uptake and Timing of Antiretroviral Therapy Initiation in Sub-Saharan Africa: An Operations Research Agenda pp. 1-13

Sydney Rosen, Matthew P Fox, Bruce A Larson, Papa Salif Sow, Peter D Ehrenkranz, Francois Venter, Yukari C Manabe, Jonathan Kaplan and Models for Accelerating Treatment Initiation (MATI) Technical Consultation

Progress and Challenges in Scaling Up Laboratory Monitoring of HIV Treatment pp. 1-3

Peter H Kilmarx and Raiva Simbi

Comparison of Outcomes before and after Ohio's Law Mandating Use of the FDA-Approved Protocol for Medication Abortion: A Retrospective Cohort Study pp. 1-23

Ushma D Upadhyay, Nicole E Johns, Sarah L Combellick, Julia E Kohn, Lisa M Keder and Sarah C M Roberts

Adjuvant Trastuzumab in HER2-Positive Early Breast Cancer by Age and Hormone Receptor Status: A Cost-Utility Analysis pp. 1-19

William Leung, Giorgi Kvizhinadze, Nisha Nair and Tony Blakely

On Risk Estimation versus Risk Stratification in Early Prostate Cancer pp. 1-4

Sigrid V Carlsson and Michael W Kattan

Building from the HIV Response toward Universal Health Coverage pp. 1-8

Jonathan Jay, Kent Buse, Marielle Hart, David Wilson, Robert Marten, Scott Kellerman, Morolake Odetoyinbo, Jonathan D Quick, Timothy Evans, Peter Piot, Mark Dybul and Agnes Binagwaho

Glycemic Control and the Risk of Tuberculosis: A Cohort Study pp. 1-15

Pin-Hui Lee, Han Fu, Ting-Chun Lai, Chen-Yuan Chiang, Chang-Chuan Chan and Hsien-Ho Lin

Volume 13, issue 7, 2016

The Clinical and Public Health Challenges of Diabetes Prevention: A Search for Sustainable Solutions pp. 1-3

Nicholas J Wareham and William H Herman

Effects of Saturated Fat, Polyunsaturated Fat, Monounsaturated Fat, and Carbohydrate on Glucose-Insulin Homeostasis: A Systematic Review and Meta-analysis of Randomised Controlled Feeding Trials pp. 1-18

Fumiaki Imamura, Renata Micha, Jason H Y Wu, Marcia C de Oliveira Otto, Fadar O Otite, Ajibola I Abioye and Dariush Mozaffarian

Population Approaches to Prevention of Type 2 Diabetes pp. 1-4

Martin White

Cardiometabolic Risk Factor Changes Observed in Diabetes Prevention Programs in US Settings: A Systematic Review and Meta-analysis pp. 1-19

Uma Mudaliar, Azadeh Zabetian, Michael Goodman, Justin B Echouffo-Tcheugui, Ann L Albright, Edward W Gregg and Mohammed K Ali

Screening for Dysglycemia: Connecting Supply and Demand to Slow Growth in Diabetes Incidence pp. 1-5

Mohammed K Ali and K M Venkat Narayan

Association of Plasma Phospholipid n-3 and n-6 Polyunsaturated Fatty Acids with Type 2 Diabetes: The EPIC-InterAct Case-Cohort Study pp. 1-17

Nita G Forouhi, Fumiaki Imamura, Stephen J Sharp, Albert Koulman, Matthias B Schulze, Jusheng Zheng, Zheng Ye, Ivonne Sluijs, Marcela Guevara, José María Huerta, Janine Kröger, Laura Yun Wang, Keith Summerhill, Julian L Griffin, Edith J M Feskens, Aurélie Affret, Pilar Amiano, Heiner Boeing, Courtney Dow, Guy Fagherazzi, Paul W Franks, Carlos Gonzalez, Rudolf Kaaks, Timothy J Key, Kay Tee Khaw, Tilman Kühn, Lotte Maxild Mortensen, Peter M Nilsson, Kim Overvad, Valeria Pala, Domenico Palli, Salvatore Panico, J Ramón Quirós, Miguel Rodriguez-Barranco, Olov Rolandsson, Carlotta Sacerdote, Augustin Scalbert, Nadia Slimani, Annemieke M W Spijkerman, Anne Tjonneland, Maria-Jose Tormo, Rosario Tumino, Daphne L van der A, Yvonne T van der Schouw, Claudia Langenberg, Elio Riboli and Nicholas J Wareham

Volume 13, issue 6, 2016

Guidelines for Accurate and Transparent Health Estimates Reporting: the GATHER statement pp. 1-8

Gretchen A Stevens, Leontine Alkema, Robert E Black, J Ties Boerma, Gary S Collins, Majid Ezzati, John T Grove, Daniel R Hogan, Margaret C Hogan, Richard Horton, Joy E Lawn, Ana Marušić, Colin D Mathers, Christopher J L Murray, Igor Rudan, Joshua A Salomon, Paul J Simpson, Theo Vos, Vivian Welch and The GATHER Working Group

Delinking Investment in Antibiotic Research and Development from Sales Revenues: The Challenges of Transforming a Promising Idea into Reality pp. 1-7

Kevin Outterson, Unni Gopinathan, Charles Clift, Anthony D So, Chantal M Morel and John-Arne Røttingen

Prediction of Bladder Outcomes after Traumatic Spinal Cord Injury: A Longitudinal Cohort Study pp. 1-16

Chiara Pavese, Marc P Schneider, Martin Schubert, Armin Curt, Giorgio Scivoletto, Enrico Finazzi-Agrò, Ulrich Mehnert, Doris Maier, Rainer Abel, Frank Röhrich, Norbert Weidner, Rüdiger Rupp, Alfons G Kessels, Lucas M Bachmann and Thomas M Kessler

Early Childhood Developmental Status in Low- and Middle-Income Countries: National, Regional, and Global Prevalence Estimates Using Predictive Modeling pp. 1-18

Dana Charles McCoy, Evan D Peet, Majid Ezzati, Goodarz Danaei, Maureen M Black, Christopher R Sudfeld, Wafaie Fawzi and Günther Fink

Direct-to-consumer Marketing to People with Hemophilia pp. 1-10

Philip Kucab, Katelyn Dow Stepanyan and Adriane Fugh-Berman

Volume 13, issue 5, 2016

Toward a Common Secure Future: Four Global Commissions in the Wake of Ebola pp. 1-15

Lawrence O Gostin, Oyewale Tomori, Suwit Wibulpolprasert, Ashish K Jha, Julio Frenk, Suerie Moon, Joy Phumaphi, Peter Piot, Barbara Stocking, Victor J Dzau and Gabriel M Leung

Prioritizing Surgical Care on National Health Agendas: A Qualitative Case Study of Papua New Guinea, Uganda, and Sierra Leone pp. 1-25

Anna J Dare, Katherine C Lee, Josh Bleicher, Alex E Elobu, Thaim B Kamara, Osborne Liko, Samuel Luboga, Akule Danlop, Gabriel Kune, Lars Hagander, Andrew J M Leather and Gavin Yamey

Prices, Costs, and Affordability of New Medicines for Hepatitis C in 30 Countries: An Economic Analysis pp. 1-22

Swathi Iyengar, Kiu Tay-Teo, Sabine Vogler, Peter Beyer, Stefan Wiktor, Kees de Joncheere and Suzanne Hill

Effectiveness of and Financial Returns to Voluntary Medical Male Circumcision for HIV Prevention in South Africa: An Incremental Cost-Effectiveness Analysis pp. 1-19

Markus Haacker, Nicole Fraser-Hurt and Marelize Gorgens

Epidemiology and Reporting Characteristics of Systematic Reviews of Biomedical Research: A Cross-Sectional Study pp. 1-30

Matthew J Page, Larissa Shamseer, Douglas G Altman, Jennifer Tetzlaff, Margaret Sampson, Andrea C Tricco, Ferrán Catalá-López, Lun Li, Emma K Reid, Rafael Sarkis-Onofre and David Moher

How Much Can the USA Reduce Health Care Costs by Reducing Smoking? pp. 1-3

Wayne Hall and Chris Doran

Health Research and the World Humanitarian Summit—Not a Thousand Miles Apart pp. 1-3

The PLOS Medicine Editors

Nondisclosure of Financial Interest in Clinical Practice Guideline Development: An Intractable Problem? pp. 1-3

Hilda Bastian

A Revolution in Treatment for Hepatitis C Infection: Mitigating the Budgetary Impact pp. 1-3

Elliot Marseille and James G Kahn

Smoking Behavior and Healthcare Expenditure in the United States, 1992–2009: Panel Data Estimates pp. 1-18

James Lightwood and Stanton A Glantz

Financial Relationships between Organizations That Produce Clinical Practice Guidelines and the Biomedical Industry: A Cross-Sectional Study pp. 1-16

Paul Campsall, Kate Colizza, Sharon Straus and Henry T Stelfox

Volume 13, issue 4, 2016

The Association between Sulfonylurea Use and All-Cause and Cardiovascular Mortality: A Meta-Analysis with Trial Sequential Analysis of Randomized Clinical Trials pp. 1-22

Dimitris Varvaki Rados, Lana Catani Pinto, Luciana Reck Remonti, Cristiane Bauermann Leitão and Jorge Luiz Gross

Why Are Some Population Interventions for Diet and Obesity More Equitable and Effective Than Others? The Role of Individual Agency pp. 1-7

Jean Adams, Oliver Mytton, Martin White and Pablo Monsivais

Observational Evidence of For-Profit Delivery and Inferior Nursing Home Care: When Is There Enough Evidence for Policy Change? pp. 1-12

Lisa A Ronald, Margaret J McGregor, Charlene Harrington, Allyson Pollock and Joel Lexchin

Building Learning Health Systems to Accelerate Research and Improve Outcomes of Clinical Care in Low- and Middle-Income Countries pp. 1-8

Mike English, Grace Irimu, Ambrose Agweyu, David Gathara, Jacquie Oliwa, Philip Ayieko, Fred Were, Chris Paton, Sean Tunis and Christopher B Forrest

Risk of Bias in Systematic Reviews of Non-Randomized Studies of Adverse Cardiovascular Effects of Thiazolidinediones and Cyclooxygenase-2 Inhibitors: Application of a New Cochrane Risk of Bias Tool pp. 1-20

Anja Bilandzic, Tiffany Fitzpatrick, Laura Rosella and David Henry

Volume 13, issue 3, 2016

Length of Stay After Childbirth in 92 Countries and Associated Factors in 30 Low- and Middle-Income Countries: Compilation of Reported Data and a Cross-sectional Analysis from Nationally Representative Surveys pp. 1-24

Oona M R Campbell, Luca Cegolon, David Macleod and Lenka Benova

Routine Pediatric Enterovirus 71 Vaccination in China: a Cost-Effectiveness Analysis pp. 1-24

Joseph T Wu, Mark Jit, Yaming Zheng, Kathy Leung, Weijia Xing, Juan Yang, Qiaohong Liao, Benjamin J Cowling, Bingyi Yang, Eric H Y Lau, Saki Takahashi, Jeremy J Farrar, Bryan T Grenfell, Gabriel M Leung and Hongjie Yu

Increased Duration of Paid Maternity Leave Lowers Infant Mortality in Low- and Middle-Income Countries: A Quasi-Experimental Study pp. 1-18

Arijit Nandi, Mohammad Hajizadeh, Sam Harper, Alissa Koski, Erin Strumpf and Jody Heymann

Cardiovascular and Renal Outcomes of Renin–Angiotensin System Blockade in Adult Patients with Diabetes Mellitus: A Systematic Review with Network Meta-Analyses pp. 1-30

Ferrán Catalá-López, Diego Macías Saint-Gerons, Diana González-Bermejo, Giuseppe M Rosano, Barry R Davis, Manuel Ridao, Abel Zaragoza, Dolores Montero-Corominas, Aurelio Tobías, César de la Fuente-Honrubia, Rafael Tabarés-Seisdedos and Brian Hutton

Trans-Pacific Partnership Provisions in Intellectual Property, Transparency, and Investment Chapters Threaten Access to Medicines in the US and Elsewhere pp. 1-7

Brook K Baker

Transformative Innovations in Reproductive, Maternal, Newborn, and Child Health over the Next 20 Years pp. 1-14

Cyril M Engmann, Sadaf Khan, Cheryl A Moyer, Patricia S Coffey and Zulfiqar A Bhutta

Volume 13, issue 2, 2016

Transforming Living Kidney Donation with a Comprehensive Strategy pp. 1-6

Matthew B Allen and Peter P Reese

Estimated Effects of Different Alcohol Taxation and Price Policies on Health Inequalities: A Mathematical Modelling Study pp. 1-27

Petra S Meier, John Holmes, Colin Angus, Abdallah K Ally, Yang Meng and Alan Brennan

A Time for Global Action: Addressing Girls’ Menstrual Hygiene Management Needs in Schools pp. 1-9

Marni Sommer, Bethany A Caruso, Murat Sahin, Teresa Calderon, Sue Cavill, Therese Mahon and Penelope A Phillips-Howard

Volume 13, issue 1, 2016

Can Data Sharing Become the Path of Least Resistance? pp. 1-4

The PLOS Medicine Editors

Resuscitating the Dying Autopsy pp. 1-5

Quique Bassat, Paola Castillo, Pedro L Alonso, Jaume Ordi and Clara Menéndez

Evidence for Community Transmission of Community-Associated but Not Health-Care-Associated Methicillin-Resistant Staphylococcus Aureus Strains Linked to Social and Material Deprivation: Spatial Analysis of Cross-sectional Data pp. 1-24

Olga Tosas Auguet, Jason R Betley, Richard A Stabler, Amita Patel, Avgousta Ioannou, Helene Marbach, Pasco Hearn, Anna Aryee, Simon D Goldenberg, Jonathan A Otter, Nergish Desai, Tacim Karadag, Chris Grundy, Michael W Gaunt, Ben S Cooper, Jonathan D Edgeworth and Theodore Kypraios