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Volume 9, issue 12, 2012

Food Pricing Strategies, Population Diets, and Non-Communicable Disease: A Systematic Review of Simulation Studies pp. 1-22

Helen Eyles, Cliona Ni Mhurchu, Nhung Nghiem and Tony Blakely

Progress toward Global Reduction in Under-Five Mortality: A Bootstrap Analysis of Uncertainty in Millennium Development Goal 4 Estimates pp. 1-12

Leontine Alkema and Jin Rou New

Uptake of Home-Based Voluntary HIV Testing in Sub-Saharan Africa: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis pp. 1-14

Kalpana Sabapathy, Rafael Van den Bergh, Sarah Fidler, Richard Hayes and Nathan Ford

Research on Implementation of Interventions in Tuberculosis Control in Low- and Middle-Income Countries: A Systematic Review pp. 1-17

Frank Cobelens, Sanne van Kampen, Eleanor Ochodo, Rifat Atun and Christian Lienhardt

Addressing Global Disparities in the Burden of Noncommunicable Diseases: Call for Papers pp. 1-2

The PLOS Medicine Editors

PRIME: A Programme to Reduce the Treatment Gap for Mental Disorders in Five Low- and Middle-Income Countries pp. 1-6

Crick Lund, Mark Tomlinson, Mary De Silva, Abebaw Fekadu, Rahul Shidhaye, Mark Jordans, Inge Petersen, Arvin Bhana, Fred Kigozi, Martin Prince, Graham Thornicroft, Charlotte Hanlon, Ritsuko Kakuma, David McDaid, Shekhar Saxena, Dan Chisholm, Shoba Raja, Sarah Kippen-Wood, Simone Honikman, Lara Fairall and Vikram Patel

Effect of Flexible Sigmoidoscopy-Based Screening on Incidence and Mortality of Colorectal Cancer: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis of Randomized Controlled Trials pp. 1-9

B Joseph Elmunzer, Rodney A Hayward, Philip S Schoenfeld, Sameer D Saini, Amar Deshpande and Akbar K Waljee

Preventing Pandemics Via International Development: A Systems Approach pp. 1-4

Tiffany L Bogich, Rumi Chunara, David Scales, Emily Chan, Laura C Pinheiro, Aleksei A Chmura, Dennis Carroll, Peter Daszak and John S Brownstein

Volume 9, issue 11, 2012

The Long-Term Health Consequences of Child Physical Abuse, Emotional Abuse, and Neglect: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis pp. 1-31

Rosana E Norman, Munkhtsetseg Byambaa, Rumna De, Alexander Butchart, James Scott and Theo Vos

The Brazil SimSmoke Policy Simulation Model: The Effect of Strong Tobacco Control Policies on Smoking Prevalence and Smoking-Attributable Deaths in a Middle Income Nation pp. 1-12

David Levy, Liz Maria de Almeida and Andre Szklo

Population Health Impact and Cost-Effectiveness of Tuberculosis Diagnosis with Xpert MTB/RIF: A Dynamic Simulation and Economic Evaluation pp. 1-17

Nicolas A Menzies, Ted Cohen, Hsien-Ho Lin, Megan Murray and Joshua A Salomon

Risk Models to Predict Chronic Kidney Disease and Its Progression: A Systematic Review pp. 1-18

Justin B Echouffo-Tcheugui and Andre P Kengne

Maternal Health Is Women's Health: A Call for Papers for Year 2 of the Maternal Health Task Force–PLOS Collection pp. 1-3

Samantha R Lattof, Mary Nell Wegner, Ana Langer and the PLOS Medicine Editors

Chinese-Style Decentralization and Health System Reform pp. 1-4

David Hipgrave, Sufang Guo, Yan Mu, Yan Guo, Fei Yan, Robert Scherpbier and Hana Brixi

Screening and Rapid Molecular Diagnosis of Tuberculosis in Prisons in Russia and Eastern Europe: A Cost-Effectiveness Analysis pp. 1-16

Daniel E Winetsky, Diana M Negoescu, Emilia H DeMarchis, Olga Almukhamedova, Aizhan Dooronbekova, Dilshod Pulatov, Natalia Vezhnina, Douglas K Owens and Jeremy D Goldhaber-Fiebert

The Case for a Smoker's License pp. 1-5

Simon Chapman

The Case against a Smoker's License pp. 1-2

Jeff Collin

Screening for Chronic Kidney Disease: Preventing Harm or Harming the Healthy? pp. 1-2

Maarten W Taal

The Ottawa Statement on the Ethical Design and Conduct of Cluster Randomized Trials pp. 1-9

Charles Weijer, Jeremy M Grimshaw, Martin P Eccles, Andrew D McRae, Angela White, Jamie C Brehaut, Monica Taljaard and Ottawa Ethics of Cluster Randomized Trials Consensus Group

Volume 9, issue 10, 2012

Serious and Life-Threatening Pregnancy-Related Infections: Opportunities to Reduce the Global Burden pp. 1-7

Courtney A Gravett, Michael G Gravett, Emily T Martin, Jeffrey D Bernson, Sadaf Khan, David S Boyle, Sophia M R Lannon, Janna Patterson, Craig E Rubens and Matthew S Steele

PRISMA-Equity 2012 Extension: Reporting Guidelines for Systematic Reviews with a Focus on Health Equity pp. 1-7

Vivian Welch, Mark Petticrew, Peter Tugwell, David Moher, Jennifer O'Neill, Elizabeth Waters, Howard White and the PRISMA-Equity Bellagio Group

Donor Funding for Newborn Survival: An Analysis of Donor-Reported Data, 2002–2010 pp. 1-17

Catherine Pitt, Joy E Lawn, Meghna Ranganathan, Anne Mills and Kara Hanson

Genetic Predictors of Response to Serotonergic and Noradrenergic Antidepressants in Major Depressive Disorder: A Genome-Wide Analysis of Individual-Level Data and a Meta-Analysis pp. 1-10

Katherine E Tansey, Michel Guipponi, Nader Perroud, Guido Bondolfi, Enrico Domenici, David Evans, Stephanie K Hall, Joanna Hauser, Neven Henigsberg, Xiaolan Hu, Borut Jerman, Wolfgang Maier, Ole Mors, Michael O'Donovan, Tim J Peters, Anna Placentino, Marcella Rietschel, Daniel Souery, Katherine J Aitchison, Ian Craig, Anne Farmer, Jens R Wendland, Alain Malafosse, Peter Holmans, Glyn Lewis, Cathryn M Lewis, Tine Bryan Stensbøl, Shitij Kapur, Peter McGuffin and Rudolf Uher

Associations between Mode of HIV Testing and Consent, Confidentiality, and Referral: A Comparative Analysis in Four African Countries pp. 1-10

Carla Makhlouf Obermeyer, Melissa Neuman, Alice Desclaux, Rhoda Wanyenze, Odette Ky-Zerbo, Peter Cherutich, Ireen Namakhoma and Anita Hardon

Bringing Clarity to the Reporting of Health Equity pp. 1-2

The PLOS Medicine Editors

Psychosocial Factors That Shape Patient and Carer Experiences of Dementia Diagnosis and Treatment: A Systematic Review of Qualitative Studies pp. 1-1

Frances Bunn, Claire Goodman, Katie Sworn, Greta Rait, Carol Brayne, Louise Robinson, Elaine McNeilly and Steve Iliffe

The Potential Impact of Pre-Exposure Prophylaxis for HIV Prevention among Men Who Have Sex with Men and Transwomen in Lima, Peru: A Mathematical Modelling Study pp. 1-15

Gabriela B Gomez, Annick Borquez, Carlos F Caceres, Eddy R Segura, Robert M Grant, Geoff P Garnett and Timothy B Hallett

Developing a National Mental Health Policy: A Case Study from Uganda pp. 1-4

Joshua Ssebunnya, Fred Kigozi and Sheila Ndyanabangi

Volume 9, issue 9, 2012

Misrepresentation of Randomized Controlled Trials in Press Releases and News Coverage: A Cohort Study pp. 1-11

Amélie Yavchitz, Isabelle Boutron, Aida Bafeta, Ibrahim Marroun, Pierre Charles, Jean Mantz and Philippe Ravaud

The Effect of Adding Ready-to-Use Supplementary Food to a General Food Distribution on Child Nutritional Status and Morbidity: A Cluster-Randomized Controlled Trial pp. 1-11

Lieven Huybregts, Freddy Houngbé, Cécile Salpéteur, Rebecca Brown, Dominique Roberfroid, Myriam Ait-Aissa and Patrick Kolsteren

Effect of Statins on Venous Thromboembolic Events: A Meta-analysis of Published and Unpublished Evidence from Randomised Controlled Trials pp. 1-13

Kazem Rahimi, Neeraj Bhala, Pieter Kamphuisen, Jonathan Emberson, Sara Biere-Rafi, Vera Krane, Michele Robertson, John Wikstrand and John McMurray

A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis of Utility-Based Quality of Life in Chronic Kidney Disease Treatments pp. 1-10

Melanie Wyld, Rachael Lisa Morton, Andrew Hayen, Kirsten Howard and Angela Claire Webster

Cryptococcal Meningitis Treatment Strategies in Resource-Limited Settings: A Cost-Effectiveness Analysis pp. 1-10

Radha Rajasingham, Melissa A Rolfes, Kate E Birkenkamp, David B Meya and David R Boulware

Who Sets the Global Health Research Agenda? The Challenge of Multi-Bi Financing pp. 1-5

Devi Sridhar

Statins and Venous Thrombosis: A Story Too Good to Be True? pp. 1-2

Frits R Rosendaal

Lipid-Based Nutrient Supplements: How Can They Combat Child Malnutrition? pp. 1-2

Kathryn G Dewey and Mary Arimond

The Challenges and Possibilities of Reducing Deaths from Cryptococcal Meningitis in Sub-Saharan Africa pp. 1-2

Andrew W K Farlow

Volume 9, issue 8, 2012

Effects of Intensive Blood Pressure Lowering on Cardiovascular and Renal Outcomes: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis pp. 1-14

Jicheng Lv, Bruce Neal, Parya Ehteshami, Toshiharu Ninomiya, Mark Woodward, Anthony Rodgers, Haiyan Wang, Stephen MacMahon, Fiona Turnbull, Graham Hillis, John Chalmers and Vlado Perkovic

Child Mortality Estimation: Consistency of Under-Five Mortality Rate Estimates Using Full Birth Histories and Summary Birth Histories pp. 1-14

Romesh Silva

Child Mortality Estimation: Appropriate Time Periods for Child Mortality Estimates from Full Birth Histories pp. 1-13

Jon Pedersen and Jing Liu

Neonatal Mortality Risk Associated with Preterm Birth in East Africa, Adjusted by Weight for Gestational Age: Individual Participant Level Meta-Analysis pp. 1-13

Tanya Marchant, Barbara Willey, Joanne Katz, Siân Clarke, Simon Kariuki, Feiko ter Kuile, John Lusingu, Richard Ndyomugyenyi, Christentze Schmiegelow, Deborah Watson-Jones and Joanna Armstrong Schellenberg

Multidrug Resistant Pulmonary Tuberculosis Treatment Regimens and Patient Outcomes: An Individual Patient Data Meta-analysis of 9,153 Patients pp. 1-16

Shama D Ahuja, David Ashkin, Monika Avendano, Rita Banerjee, Melissa Bauer, Jamie N Bayona, Mercedes C Becerra, Andrea Benedetti, Marcos Burgos, Rosella Centis, Eward D Chan, Chen-Yuan Chiang, Helen Cox, Lia D'Ambrosio, Kathy DeRiemer, Nguyen Huy Dung, Donald Enarson, Dennis Falzon, Katherine Flanagan, Jennifer Flood, Maria L Garcia-Garcia, Neel Gandhi, Reuben M Granich, Maria G Hollm-Delgado, Timothy H Holtz, Michael D Iseman, Leah G Jarlsberg, Salmaan Keshavjee, Hye-Ryoun Kim, Won-Jung Koh, Joey Lancaster, Christophe Lange, Wiel C M de Lange, Vaira Leimane, Chi Chiu Leung, Jiehui Li, Dick Menzies, Giovanni B Migliori, Sergey P Mishustin, Carole D Mitnick, Masa Narita, Philly O'Riordan, Madhukar Pai, Domingo Palmero, Seung-kyu Park, Geoffrey Pasvol, Jose Peña, Carlos Pérez-Guzmán, Maria I D Quelapio, Alfredo Ponce- de-Leon, Vija Riekstina, Jerome Robert, Sarah Royce, H Simon Schaaf, Kwonjune J Seung, Lena Shah, Tae Sun Shim, Sonya S Shin, Yuji Shiraishi, José Sifuentes-Osornio, Giovanni Sotgiu, Matthew J Strand, Payam Tabarsi, Thelma E Tupasi, Robert van Altena, Martie Van der Walt, Tjip S Van der Werf, Mario H Vargas, Pirett Viiklepp, Janice Westenhouse, Wing Wai Yew, Jae-Joon Yim and Collaborative Group for Meta-Analysis of Individual Patient Data in Mdr-Tb

Developing and Costing Local Strategies to Improve Maternal and Child Health: The Investment Case Framework pp. 1-5

Eliana Jimenez Soto, Sophie La Vincente, Andrew Clark, Sonja Firth, Alison Morgan, Zoe Dettrick, Prarthna Dayal, Bernardino M Aldaba, Beena Varghese, Laksono Trisnantoro, Yogendra Prasai and Investment Case Team for India, Indonesia, Nepal, Papua New Guinea and the Philippines

The Air That We Breathe: Addressing the Risks of Global Urbanization on Health pp. 1-2

The PLOS Medicine Editors

Why We Need Urban Health Equity Indicators: Integrating Science, Policy, and Community pp. 1-6

Jason Corburn and Alison K Cohen

An Alternative Framework for Analyzing Financial Protection in Health pp. 1-6

Jennifer Prah Ruger

Conflict of Interest Reporting by Authors Involved in Promotion of Off-Label Drug Use: An Analysis of Journal Disclosures pp. 1-9

Aaron S Kesselheim, Bo Wang, David M Studdert and Jerry Avorn

Child Mortality Estimation: A Global Overview of Infant and Child Mortality Age Patterns in Light of New Empirical Data pp. 1-15

Michel Guillot, Patrick Gerland, François Pelletier and Ameed Saabneh

Child Mortality Estimation: A Comparison of UN IGME and IHME Estimates of Levels and Trends in Under-Five Mortality Rates and Deaths pp. 1-18

Leontine Alkema and Danzhen You

What Is the Relationship of Medical Humanitarian Organisations with Mining and Other Extractive Industries? pp. 1-4

Philippe Calain

Volume 9, issue 7, 2012

Antiretroviral Therapy for Prevention of Tuberculosis in Adults with HIV: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis pp. 1-15

Amitabh B Suthar, Stephen D Lawn, Julia del Amo, Haileyesus Getahun, Christopher Dye, Delphine Sculier, Timothy R Sterling, Richard E Chaisson, Brian G Williams, Anthony D Harries and Reuben M Granich

The Co-Management of Tuberculosis and Diabetes: Challenges and Opportunities in the Developing World pp. 1-4

Timothy Sullivan and Yanis Ben Amor

Researching New Methods of Screening for Adverse Pregnancy Outcome: Lessons from Pre-eclampsia pp. 1-3

Gordon C S Smith

HIV Treatment as Prevention: Principles of Good HIV Epidemiology Modelling for Public Health Decision-Making in All Modes of Prevention and Evaluation pp. 1-7

Wim Delva, David P Wilson, Laith Abu-Raddad, Marelize Gorgens, David Wilson, Timothy B Hallett and Alex Welte

Integrating Mental Health and Development: A Case Study of the BasicNeeds Model in Nepal pp. 1-7

Shoba Raja, Chris Underhill, Padam Shrestha, Uma Sunder, Saju Mannarath, Sarah Kippen Wood and Vikram Patel

HIV Treatment as Prevention: Modelling the Cost of Antiretroviral Treatment—State of the Art and Future Directions pp. 1-10

Gesine Meyer-Rath and Mead Over

HIV Treatment as Prevention: Considerations in the Design, Conduct, and Analysis of Cluster Randomized Controlled Trials of Combination HIV Prevention pp. 1-10

Marie-Claude Boily, Benoît Mâsse, Ramzi Alsallaq, Nancy S Padian, Jeffrey W Eaton, Juan F Vesga and Timothy B Hallett

How Does Medical Device Regulation Perform in the United States and the European Union? A Systematic Review pp. 1-10

Daniel B Kramer, Shuai Xu and Aaron S Kesselheim

HIV Treatment as Prevention: Systematic Comparison of Mathematical Models of the Potential Impact of Antiretroviral Therapy on HIV Incidence in South Africa pp. 1-20

Jeffrey W Eaton, Leigh F Johnson, Joshua A Salomon, Till Bärnighausen, Eran Bendavid, Anna Bershteyn, David E Bloom, Valentina Cambiano, Christophe Fraser, Jan A C Hontelez, Salal Humair, Daniel J Klein, Elisa F Long, Andrew N Phillips, Carel Pretorius, John Stover, Edward A Wenger, Brian G Williams and Timothy B Hallett

Risk of Venous Thromboembolism in Patients with Cancer: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis pp. 1-19

Freesia Horsted, Joe West and Matthew J Grainge

Social Entrepreneurship for Sexual Health (SESH): A New Approach for Enabling Delivery of Sexual Health Services among Most-at-Risk Populations pp. 1-6

Joseph D Tucker, Kevin A Fenton, Robert Peckham and Rosanna W Peeling

Treatment of Young Children with HIV Infection: Using Evidence to Inform Policymakers pp. 1-6

Andrew J Prendergast, Martina Penazzato, Mark Cotton, Philippa Musoke, Veronica Mulenga, Elaine J Abrams and Diana M Gibb

Thinking Forward: The Quicksand of Appeasing the Food Industry pp. 1-2

Kelly D Brownell

Medical Device Regulation: Time to Improve Performance pp. 1-2

Sanket S Dhruva and Rita F Redberg

The Impact of Transnational “Big Food” Companies on the South: A View from Brazil pp. 1-5

Carlos A Monteiro and Geoffrey Cannon

HIV Treatment as Prevention: Issues in Economic Evaluation pp. 1-5

Till Bärnighausen, Joshua A Salomon and Nalinee Sangrujee

HIV Treatment as Prevention: Models, Data, and Questions—Towards Evidence-Based Decision-Making pp. 1-8

The HIV Modelling Consortium Treatment as Prevention Editorial Writing Group

United States Private-Sector Physicians and Pharmaceutical Contract Research: A Qualitative Study pp. 1-8

Jill A Fisher and Corey A Kalbaugh

Reduction in Clostridium difficile Infection Rates after Mandatory Hospital Public Reporting: Findings from a Longitudinal Cohort Study in Canada pp. 1-11

Nick Daneman, Therese A Stukel, Xiaomu Ma, Marian Vermeulen and Astrid Guttmann

Effect of a Community-Based Nursing Intervention on Mortality in Chronically Ill Older Adults: A Randomized Controlled Trial pp. 1-14

Kenneth D Coburn, Sherry Marcantonio, Robert Lazansky, Maryellen Keller and Nancy Davis

Volume 9, issue 6, 2012

Analysing Recent Socioeconomic Trends in Coronary Heart Disease Mortality in England, 2000–2007: A Population Modelling Study pp. 1-14

Madhavi Bajekal, Shaun Scholes, Hande Love, Nathaniel Hawkins, Martin O'Flaherty, Rosalind Raine and Simon Capewell

Comparative Performance of Private and Public Healthcare Systems in Low- and Middle-Income Countries: A Systematic Review pp. 1-14

Sanjay Basu, Jason Andrews, Sandeep Kishore, Rajesh Panjabi and David Stuckler

Global Health Governance and the Commercial Sector: A Documentary Analysis of Tobacco Company Strategies to Influence the WHO Framework Convention on Tobacco Control pp. 1-14

Heide Weishaar, Jeff Collin, Katherine Smith, Thilo Grüning, Sema Mandal and Anna Gilmore

A Multifaceted Intervention to Improve the Quality of Care of Children in District Hospitals in Kenya: A Cost-Effectiveness Analysis pp. 1-11

Edwine W Barasa, Philip Ayieko, Susan Cleary and Mike English

Long-Term Risk of Incident Type 2 Diabetes and Measures of Overall and Regional Obesity: The EPIC-InterAct Case-Cohort Study pp. 1-16

The InterAct Consortium

Tobacco Industry Manipulation of Tobacco Excise and Tobacco Advertising Policies in the Czech Republic: An Analysis of Tobacco Industry Documents pp. 1-16

Risako Shirane, Katherine Smith, Hana Ross, Karin E Silver, Simon Williams and Anna Gilmore

Manufacturing Epidemics: The Role of Global Producers in Increased Consumption of Unhealthy Commodities Including Processed Foods, Alcohol, and Tobacco pp. 1-8

David Stuckler, Martin McKee, Shah Ebrahim and Sanjay Basu

Food Sovereignty: Power, Gender, and the Right to Food pp. 1-4

Rajeev C Patel

Protecting Clinical Trial Participants and Protecting Data Integrity: Are We Meeting the Challenges? pp. 1-4

Susan S Ellenberg

Why Human Health and Health Ethics Must Be Central to Climate Change Deliberations pp. 1-5

Jerome Amir Singh

PLoS Medicine Series on Big Food: The Food Industry Is Ripe for Scrutiny pp. 1-2

The PLoS Medicine Editors

Volume 9, issue 5, 2012

Reporting Recommendations for Tumor Marker Prognostic Studies (REMARK): Explanation and Elaboration pp. 1-32

Douglas G Altman, Lisa M McShane, Willi Sauerbrei and Sheila E Taube

Innovation and Access to Medicines for Neglected Populations: Could a Treaty Address a Broken Pharmaceutical R&D System? pp. 1-5

Suerie Moon, Jorge Bermudez and Ellen 't Hoen

A New Deal for Global Health R&D? The Recommendations of the Consultative Expert Working Group on Research and Development (CEWG) pp. 1-2

John-Arne Røttingen and Claudia Chamas

Does Development Assistance for Health Really Displace Government Health Spending? Reassessing the Evidence pp. 1-7

Rajaie Batniji and Eran Bendavid

The Effect of Elevated Body Mass Index on Ischemic Heart Disease Risk: Causal Estimates from a Mendelian Randomisation Approach pp. 1-13

Børge G Nordestgaard, Tom M Palmer, Marianne Benn, Jeppe Zacho, Anne Tybjærg-Hansen, George Davey Smith and Nicholas J Timpson

Reporting and Methods in Clinical Prediction Research: A Systematic Review pp. 1-13

Walter Bouwmeester, Nicolaas P A Zuithoff, Susan Mallett, Mirjam I Geerlings, Yvonne Vergouwe, Ewout W Steyerberg, Douglas G Altman and Karel G M Moons

Prevalence and Risk of Violence and the Physical, Mental, and Sexual Health Problems Associated with Human Trafficking: Systematic Review pp. 1-13

Siân Oram, Heidi Stöckl, Joanna Busza, Louise M Howard and Cathy Zimmerman

Volume 9, issue 4, 2012

Where There Is No Health Research: What Can Be Done to Fill the Global Gaps in Health Research? pp. 1-7

Martin McKee, David Stuckler and Sanjay Basu

Long-Term Exposure to Silica Dust and Risk of Total and Cause-Specific Mortality in Chinese Workers: A Cohort Study pp. 1-11

Weihong Chen, Yuewei Liu, Haijiao Wang, Eva Hnizdo, Yi Sun, Liangping Su, Xiaokang Zhang, Shaofan Weng, Frank Bochmann, Frank J Hearl, Jingqiong Chen and Tangchun Wu

Prioritizing CD4 Count Monitoring in Response to ART in Resource-Constrained Settings: A Retrospective Application of Prediction-Based Classification pp. 1-11

Livio Azzoni, Andrea S Foulkes, Yan Liu, Xiaohong Li, Margaret Johnson, Collette Smith, Adeeba bte Kamarulzaman, Julio Montaner, Karam Mounzer, Michael Saag, Pedro Cahn, Carina Cesar, Alejandro Krolewiecki, Ian Sanne and Luis J Montaner

Reappraisal of Metformin Efficacy in the Treatment of Type 2 Diabetes: A Meta-Analysis of Randomised Controlled Trials pp. 1-10

Rémy Boussageon, Irène Supper, Theodora Bejan-Angoulvant, Nadir Kellou, Michel Cucherat, Jean-Pierre Boissel, Behrouz Kassai, Alain Moreau, François Gueyffier and Catherine Cornu

Induction of Labor versus Expectant Management in Women with Preterm Prelabor Rupture of Membranes between 34 and 37 Weeks: A Randomized Controlled Trial pp. 1-16

David P van der Ham, Sylvia M C Vijgen, Jan G Nijhuis, Johannes J van Beek, Brent C Opmeer, Antonius L M Mulder, Rob Moonen, Mariët Groenewout, Mariëlle G van Pampus, Gerald D Mantel, Kitty W M Bloemenkamp, Wim J van Wijngaarden, Marko Sikkema, Monique C Haak, Paula J M Pernet, Martina Porath, Jan F M Molkenboer, Simone Kuppens, Anneke Kwee, Michael E Kars, Mallory Woiski, Martin J N Weinans, Hajo I J Wildschut, Bettina M C Akerboom, Ben W J Mol, Christine Willekes and on behalf of the PPROMEXIL trial Group

Open Clinical Trial Data for All? A View from Regulators pp. 1-2

Hans-Georg Eichler, Eric Abadie, Alasdair Breckenridge, Hubert Leufkens and Guido Rasi

Does Conflict of Interest Disclosure Worsen Bias? pp. 1-2

The PLoS Medicine Editors

The Imperative to Share Clinical Study Reports: Recommendations from the Tamiflu Experience pp. 1-6

Peter Doshi, Tom Jefferson and Chris Del Mar

Volume 9, issue 3, 2012

Care Seeking for Neonatal Illness in Low- and Middle-Income Countries: A Systematic Review pp. 1-15

Hadley K Herbert, Anne CC Lee, Aruna Chandran, Igor Rudan and Abdullah H Baqui

Improving Ethical Review of Research Involving Incentives for Health Promotion pp. 1-5

Alex John London, David A Borasky, Anant Bhan and for the Ethics Working Group of the HIV Prevention Trials Network

A Comparison of DSM-IV and DSM-5 Panel Members' Financial Associations with Industry: A Pernicious Problem Persists pp. 1-4

Lisa Cosgrove and Sheldon Krimsky

Guidance for Evidence-Informed Policies about Health Systems: Rationale for and Challenges of Guidance Development pp. 1-8

Xavier Bosch-Capblanch, John N Lavis, Simon Lewin, Rifat Atun, John-Arne Røttingen, Daniel Dröschel, Lise Beck, Edgardo Abalos, Fadi El-Jardali, Lucy Gilson, Sandy Oliver, Kaspar Wyss, Peter Tugwell, Regina Kulier, Tikki Pang and Andy Haines

Guidance for Evidence-Informed Policies about Health Systems: Assessing How Much Confidence to Place in the Research Evidence pp. 1-8

Simon Lewin, Xavier Bosch-Capblanch, Sandy Oliver, Elie A Akl, Gunn E Vist, John N Lavis, Davina Ghersi, John-Arne Røttingen, Peter Steinmann, Metin Gulmezoglu, Peter Tugwell, Fadi El-Jardali and Andy Haines

Better Guidance Is Welcome, but without Blinders pp. 1-3

David H Peters and Sara Bennett

To VBAC or Not to VBAC pp. 1-3

Catherine Y Spong

Publication Bias in Antipsychotic Trials: An Analysis of Efficacy Comparing the Published Literature to the US Food and Drug Administration Database pp. 1-17

Erick H Turner, Daniel Knoepflmacher and Lee Shapley

Volume 9, issue 2, 2012

Why Does Mental Health Not Get the Attention It Deserves? An Application of the Shiffman and Smith Framework pp. 1-4

Mark Tomlinson and Crick Lund

Homocysteine and Coronary Heart Disease: Meta-analysis of MTHFR Case-Control Studies, Avoiding Publication Bias pp. 1-12

Robert Clarke, Derrick A Bennett, Sarah Parish, Petra Verhoef, Mariska Dötsch-Klerk, Mark Lathrop, Peng Xu, Børge G Nordestgaard, Hilma Holm, Jemma C Hopewell, Danish Saleheen, Toshihiro Tanaka, Sonia S Anand, John C Chambers, Marcus E Kleber, Willem H Ouwehand, Yoshiji Yamada, Clara Elbers, Bas Peters, Alexandre F R Stewart, Muredach M Reilly, Barbara Thorand, Salim Yusuf, James C Engert, Themistocles L Assimes, Jaspal Kooner, John Danesh, Hugh Watkins, Nilesh J Samani, Rory Collins, Richard Peto and for the MTHFR Studies Collaborative Group

Socioeconomic Factors and All Cause and Cause-Specific Mortality among Older People in Latin America, India, and China: A Population-Based Cohort Study pp. 1-14

Cleusa P Ferri, Daisy Acosta, Mariella Guerra, Yueqin Huang, Juan J Llibre-Rodriguez, Aquiles Salas, Ana Luisa Sosa, Joseph D Williams, Ciro Gaona, Zhaorui Liu, Lisseth Noriega-Fernandez, A T Jotheeswaran and Martin J Prince

The Evolving Landscape of the Economics of HIV Treatment and Prevention pp. 1-2

Bohdan Nosyk and Julio S G Montaner

Volume 9, issue 1, 2012

Effect of Sanitation on Soil-Transmitted Helminth Infection: Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis pp. 1-17

Kathrin Ziegelbauer, Benjamin Speich, Daniel Mäusezahl, Robert Bos, Jennifer Keiser and Jürg Utzinger

The Role of Health Systems Factors in Facilitating Access to Psychotropic Medicines: A Cross-Sectional Analysis of the WHO-AIMS in 63 Low- and Middle-Income Countries pp. 1-13

Ryan McBain, Daniel J Norton, Jodi Morris, M Taghi Yasamy and Theresa S Betancourt

Ensemble Modeling of the Likely Public Health Impact of a Pre-Erythrocytic Malaria Vaccine pp. 1-20

Thomas Smith, Amanda Ross, Nicolas Maire, Nakul Chitnis, Alain Studer, Diggory Hardy, Alan Brooks, Melissa Penny and Marcel Tanner

A United Nations General Assembly Special Session for Mental, Neurological, and Substance Use Disorders: The Time Has Come pp. 1-3

Judith K Bass, Thomas H Bornemann, Matthew Burkey, Sonia Chehil, Lenis Chen, John R M Copeland, William W Eaton, Vijay Ganju, Erin Hayward, Rebecca S Hock, Rubeena Kidwai, Kavitha Kolappa, Patrick T Lee, Harry Minas, Flora Or, Giuseppe J Raviola, Benedetto Saraceno and Vikram Patel

Trends in Compulsory Licensing of Pharmaceuticals Since the Doha Declaration: A Database Analysis pp. 1-9

Reed Beall and Randall Kuhn