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Volume 12, issue 12, 2015

Risks and Benefits of Nalmefene in the Treatment of Adult Alcohol Dependence: A Systematic Literature Review and Meta-Analysis of Published and Unpublished Double-Blind Randomized Controlled Trials pp. 1-17

Clément Palpacuer, Bruno Laviolle, Rémy Boussageon, Jean Michel Reymann, Eric Bellissant and Florian Naudet

Moving Beyond “Food Deserts”: Reorienting United States Policies to Reduce Disparities in Diet Quality pp. 1-9

Jason P Block and S V Subramanian

Diversity in Clinical and Biomedical Research: A Promise Yet to Be Fulfilled pp. 1-9

Sam S Oh, Joshua Galanter, Neeta Thakur, Maria Pino-Yanes, Nicolas E Barcelo, Marquitta J White, Danielle M de Bruin, Ruth M Greenblatt, Kirsten Bibbins-Domingo, Alan H B Wu, Luisa N Borrell, Chris Gunter, Neil R Powe and Esteban G Burchard

Inequalities in Alcohol-Related Mortality in 17 European Countries: A Retrospective Analysis of Mortality Registers pp. 1-31

Johan P Mackenbach, Ivana Kulhánová, Matthias Bopp, Carme Borrell, Patrick Deboosere, Katalin Kovács, Caspar W N Looman, Mall Leinsalu, Pia Mäkelä, Pekka Martikainen, Gwenn Menvielle, Maica Rodríguez-Sanz, Jitka Rychtaříková and Rianne de Gelder

Self-Administered Outpatient Antimicrobial Infusion by Uninsured Patients Discharged from a Safety-Net Hospital: A Propensity-Score-Balanced Retrospective Cohort Study pp. 1-18

Kavita P Bhavan, L Steven Brown and Robert W Haley

Acute Cardiovascular Events after Herpes Zoster: A Self-Controlled Case Series Analysis in Vaccinated and Unvaccinated Older Residents of the United States pp. 1-15

Caroline Minassian, Sara L Thomas, Liam Smeeth, Ian Douglas, Ruth Brauer and Sinéad M Langan

Volume 12, issue 11, 2015

Venous Thrombosis Risk after Cast Immobilization of the Lower Extremity: Derivation and Validation of a Clinical Prediction Score, L-TRiP(cast), in Three Population-Based Case–Control Studies pp. 1-20

Banne Nemeth, Raymond A van Adrichem, Astrid van Hylckama Vlieg, Paolo Bucciarelli, Ida Martinelli, Trevor Baglin, Frits R Rosendaal, Saskia le Cessie and Suzanne C Cannegieter

The First Use of the Global Oral Cholera Vaccine Emergency Stockpile: Lessons from South Sudan pp. 1-8

Abdinasir Abubakar, Andrew S Azman, John Rumunu, Iza Ciglenecki, Trina Helderman, Haley West, Justin Lessler, David A Sack, Stephen Martin, William Perea, Dominique Legros and Francisco J Luquero

Care that Matters: Quality Measurement and Health Care pp. 1-10

Barry G Saver, Stephen A Martin, Ronald N Adler, Lucy M Candib, Konstantinos E Deligiannidis, Jeremy Golding, Daniel J Mullin, Michele Roberts and Stefan Topolski

The HIV Treatment Gap: Estimates of the Financial Resources Needed versus Available for Scale-Up of Antiretroviral Therapy in 97 Countries from 2015 to 2020 pp. 1-43

Arin Dutta, Catherine Barker and Ashley Kallarakal

Volume 12, issue 10, 2015

Using Qualitative Evidence in Decision Making for Health and Social Interventions: An Approach to Assess Confidence in Findings from Qualitative Evidence Syntheses (GRADE-CERQual) pp. 1-18

Simon Lewin, Claire Glenton, Heather Munthe-Kaas, Benedicte Carlsen, Christopher J Colvin, Metin Gülmezoglu, Jane Noyes, Andrew Booth, Ruth Garside and Arash Rashidian

Monitoring Mortality in Forced Migrants—Can Bayesian Methods Help Us to Do Better with the (Little) Data We Have? pp. 1-7

Peter Heudtlass, Niko Speybroeck and Debarati Guha-Sapir

Individual Participant Data (IPD) Meta-analyses of Diagnostic and Prognostic Modeling Studies: Guidance on Their Use pp. 1-12

Thomas P A Debray, Richard D Riley, Maroeska M Rovers, Johannes B Reitsma, Karel G M Moons and Cochrane IPD Meta-analysis Methods Group

Volume 12, issue 9, 2015

The Impact of Company-Level ART Provision to a Mining Workforce in South Africa: A Cost–Benefit Analysis pp. 1-26

Gesine Meyer-Rath, Jan Pienaar, Brian Brink, Andrew van Zyl, Debbie Muirhead, Alison Grant, Gavin Churchyard, Charlotte Watts and Peter Vickerman

Equity and Noncommunicable Disease Reduction under the Sustainable Development Goals pp. 1-7

Harald Schmidt and Anne Barnhill

Value of Information: A Tool to Improve Research Prioritization and Reduce Waste pp. 1-5

Cosetta Minelli and Gianluca Baio

Volume 12, issue 8, 2015

Vitamin D and Risk of Multiple Sclerosis: A Mendelian Randomization Study pp. 1-20

Lauren E Mokry, Stephanie Ross, Omar S Ahmad, Vincenzo Forgetta, George Davey Smith, Aaron Leong, Celia M T Greenwood, George Thanassoulis and J Brent Richards

The Cost-Effectiveness of Low-Cost Essential Antihypertensive Medicines for Hypertension Control in China: A Modelling Study pp. 1-19

Dongfeng Gu, Jiang He, Pamela G Coxson, Petra W Rasmussen, Chen Huang, Anusorn Thanataveerat, Keane Y Tzong, Juyang Xiong, Miao Wang, Dong Zhao, Lee Goldman and Andrew E Moran

Antipsychotic Maintenance Treatment: Time to Rethink? pp. 1-7

Joanna Moncrieff

Volume 12, issue 7, 2015

Health, Health Inequality, and Cost Impacts of Annual Increases in Tobacco Tax: Multistate Life Table Modeling in New Zealand pp. 1-21

Tony Blakely, Linda J Cobiac, Christine L Cleghorn, Amber L Pearson, Frederieke S van der Deen, Giorgi Kvizhinadze, Nhung Nghiem, Melissa McLeod and Nick Wilson

Risk of Adverse Pregnancy Outcomes among Women Practicing Poor Sanitation in Rural India: A Population-Based Prospective Cohort Study pp. 1-18

Bijaya K Padhi, Kelly K Baker, Ambarish Dutta, Oliver Cumming, Matthew C Freeman, Radhanatha Satpathy, Bhabani S Das and Pinaki Panigrahi

Searching for Public Health Law’s Sweet Spot: The Regulation of Sugar-Sweetened Beverages pp. 1-10

David M Studdert, Jordan Flanders and Michelle M Mello

Individual Participant Data (IPD) Meta-analyses of Randomised Controlled Trials: Guidance on Their Use pp. 1-16

Jayne F Tierney, Claire Vale, Richard Riley, Catrin Tudur Smith, Lesley Stewart, Mike Clarke and Maroeska Rovers

Noncommunicable Diseases: A Globalization of Disparity? pp. 1-4

Peter J Hotez and Larry Peiperl

Volume 12, issue 6, 2015

Exposure to Second-Hand Smoke and the Risk of Tuberculosis in Children and Adults: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis of 18 Observational Studies pp. 1-21

Jayadeep Patra, Mehak Bhatia, Wilson Suraweera, Shaun K Morris, Cyril Patra, Prakash C Gupta and Prabhat Jha

HIV Programs for Sex Workers: Lessons and Challenges for Developing and Delivering Programs pp. 1-11

David Wilson

Assessing Development Assistance for Mental Health in Developing Countries: 2007–2013 pp. 1-10

Barnabas J Gilbert, Vikram Patel, Paul E Farmer and Chunling Lu

Achieving Systemic and Scalable Private Sector Engagement in Tuberculosis Care and Prevention in Asia pp. 1-10

William A Wells, Mukund Uplekar and Madhukar Pai

Inequitable and Ineffective: Exclusion of Mental Health from the Post-2015 Development Agenda pp. 1-4

Alexander C Tsai and Mark Tomlinson

The Mistreatment of Women during Childbirth in Health Facilities Globally: A Mixed-Methods Systematic Review pp. 1-32

Meghan A Bohren, Joshua P Vogel, Erin C Hunter, Olha Lutsiv, Suprita K Makh, João Paulo Souza, Carolina Aguiar, Fernando Saraiva Coneglian, Alex Luíz Araújo Diniz, Özge Tunçalp, Dena Javadi, Olufemi T Oladapo, Rajat Khosla, Michelle J Hindin and A Metin Gülmezoglu

Volume 12, issue 5, 2015

Healthy Eating and Risks of Total and Cause-Specific Death among Low-Income Populations of African-Americans and Other Adults in the Southeastern United States: A Prospective Cohort Study pp. 1-17

Danxia Yu, Jennifer Sonderman, Maciej S Buchowski, Joseph K McLaughlin, Xiao-Ou Shu, Mark Steinwandel, Lisa B Signorello, Xianglan Zhang, Margaret K Hargreaves, William J Blot and Wei Zheng

A Global Biomedical R&D Fund and Mechanism for Innovations of Public Health Importance pp. 1-4

Manica Balasegaram, Christian Bréchot, Jeremy Farrar, David Heymann, Nirmal Ganguly, Martin Khor, Yves Lévy, Precious Matsoso, Ren Minghui, Bernard Pécoul, Liu Peilong, Marcel Tanner and John-Arne Røttingen

Seasonal Influenza Vaccination for Children in Thailand: A Cost-Effectiveness Analysis pp. 1-25

Aronrag Meeyai, Naiyana Praditsitthikorn, Surachai Kotirum, Wantanee Kulpeng, Weerasak Putthasri, Ben S Cooper and Yot Teerawattananon

Volume 12, issue 4, 2015

Bringing Access to the Full Spectrum of Cancer Research: A Call for Papers pp. 1-3

The PLOS Medicine Editors

Geographic and Temporal Trends in the Molecular Epidemiology and Genetic Mechanisms of Transmitted HIV-1 Drug Resistance: An Individual-Patient- and Sequence-Level Meta-Analysis pp. 1-29

Soo-Yon Rhee, Jose Luis Blanco, Michael R Jordan, Jonathan Taylor, Philippe Lemey, Vici Varghese, Raph L Hamers, Silvia Bertagnolio, Tobias F Rinke de Wit, Avelin F Aghokeng, Jan Albert, Radko Avi, Santiago Avila-Rios, Pascal O Bessong, James I Brooks, Charles A B Boucher, Zabrina L Brumme, Michael P Busch, Hermann Bussmann, Marie-Laure Chaix, Bum Sik Chin, Toni T D’Aquin, Cillian F De Gascun, Anne Derache, Diane Descamps, Alaka K Deshpande, Cyrille F Djoko, Susan H Eshleman, Herve Fleury, Pierre Frange, Seiichiro Fujisaki, P Richard Harrigan, Junko Hattori, Africa Holguin, Gillian M Hunt, Hiroshi Ichimura, Pontiano Kaleebu, David Katzenstein, Sasisopin Kiertiburanakul, Jerome H Kim, Sung Soon Kim, Yanpeng Li, Irja Lutsar, Lynn Morris, Nicaise Ndembi, Kee Peng Ng, Ramesh S Paranjape, Martine Peeters, Mario Poljak, Matt A Price, Manon L Ragonnet-Cronin, Gustavo Reyes-Terán, Morgane Rolland, Sunee Sirivichayakul, Davey M Smith, Marcelo A Soares, Vincent V Soriano, Deogratius Ssemwanga, Maja Stanojevic, Mariane A Stefani, Wataru Sugiura, Somnuek Sungkanuparph, Amilcar Tanuri, Kok Keng Tee, Hong-Ha M Truong, David A M C van de Vijver, Nicole Vidal, Chunfu Yang, Rongge Yang, Gonzalo Yebra, John P A Ioannidis, Anne-Mieke Vandamme and Robert W Shafer

Volume 12, issue 3, 2015

Paying Physicians to Prescribe Generic Drugs and Follow-On Biologics in the United States pp. 1-10

Ameet Sarpatwari, Niteesh K Choudhry, Jerry Avorn and Aaron S Kesselheim

Strengthening the Detection of and Early Response to Public Health Emergencies: Lessons from the West African Ebola Epidemic pp. 1-8

Mark J Siedner, Lawrence O Gostin, Hilarie H Cranmer and John D Kraemer

Testing and Treating the Missing Millions with Tuberculosis pp. 1-3

Madhukar Pai and Puneet Dewan

A Public Health Approach to Hepatitis C Control in Low- and Middle-Income Countries pp. 1-12

Amitabh B Suthar and Anthony D Harries

Volume 12, issue 2, 2015

Enabling Dynamic Partnerships through Joint Degrees between Low- and High-Income Countries for Capacity Development in Global Health Research: Experience from the Karolinska Institutet/Makerere University Partnership pp. 1-8

Nelson Sewankambo, James K Tumwine, Göran Tomson, Celestino Obua, Freddie Bwanga, Peter Waiswa, Elly Katabira, Hannah Akuffo, Kristina Persson and Stefan Peterson

Volume 12, issue 1, 2015

Supporting Those Who Go to Fight Ebola pp. 1-4

Michelle M Mello, Maria W Merritt and Scott D Halpern

Hormonal Contraception and the Risk of HIV Acquisition: An Individual Participant Data Meta-analysis pp. 1-26

Charles S Morrison, Pai-Lien Chen, Cynthia Kwok, Jared M Baeten, Joelle Brown, Angela M Crook, Lut Van Damme, Sinead Delany-Moretlwe, Suzanna C Francis, Barbara A Friedland, Richard J Hayes, Renee Heffron, Saidi Kapiga, Quarraisha Abdool Karim, Stephanie Karpoff, Rupert Kaul, R Scott McClelland, Sheena McCormack, Nuala McGrath, Landon Myer, Helen Rees, Ariane van der Straten, Deborah Watson-Jones, Janneke H H M van de Wijgert, Randy Stalter and Nicola Low

Volume 11, issue 12, 2014

Evaluation of the Lung Cancer Risks at Which to Screen Ever- and Never-Smokers: Screening Rules Applied to the PLCO and NLST Cohorts pp. 1-13

Martin C Tammemägi, Timothy R Church, William G Hocking, Gerard A Silvestri, Paul A Kvale, Thomas L Riley, John Commins and Christine D Berg

Genomic Predictors for Recurrence Patterns of Hepatocellular Carcinoma: Model Derivation and Validation pp. 1-16

Ji Hoon Kim, Bo Hwa Sohn, Hyun-Sung Lee, Sang-Bae Kim, Jeong Eun Yoo, Yun-Yong Park, Woojin Jeong, Sung Sook Lee, Eun Sung Park, Ahmed Kaseb, Baek Hui Kim, Wan Bae Kim, Jong Eun Yeon, Kwan Soo Byun, In-Sun Chu, Sung Soo Kim, Xin Wei Wang, Snorri S Thorgeirsson, John M Luk, Koo Jeong Kang, Jeonghoon Heo, Young Nyun Park and Ju-Seog Lee

Alcohol Harm Reduction: Corporate Capture of a Key Concept pp. 1-5

Jim McCambridge, Kypros Kypri, Colin Drummond and John Strang

World Health Organization Guidelines for Management of Acute Stress, PTSD, and Bereavement: Key Challenges on the Road Ahead pp. 1-5

Wietse A Tol, Corrado Barbui, Jonathan Bisson, Judith Cohen, Zeinab Hijazi, Lynne Jones, Joop T V M de Jong, Nicola Magrini, Olayinka Omigbodun, Soraya Seedat, Derrick Silove, Renato Souza, Athula Sumathipala, Lakshmi Vijayakumar, Inka Weissbecker, Douglas Zatzick and Mark van Ommeren

Tracking Rural Health Facility Financial Data in Resource-Limited Settings: A Case Study from Rwanda pp. 1-7

Chunling Lu, Sandy Tsai, John Ruhumuriza, Grace Umugiraneza, Solange Kandamutsa, Phillip P Salvatore, Zibiao Zhang, Agnes Binagwaho and Fidele Ngabo

Volume 11, issue 11, 2014

Association of Adenotonsillectomy with Asthma Outcomes in Children: A Longitudinal Database Analysis pp. 1-13

Rakesh Bhattacharjee, Beatrix H Choi, David Gozal and Babak Mokhlesi

Effect of Treatment of Obstructive Sleep Apnea on Depressive Symptoms: Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis pp. 1-13

Marcus Povitz, Carmelle E Bolo, Steven J Heitman, Willis H Tsai, JianLi Wang and Matthew T James

Act II of the Sunshine Act pp. 1-3

Genevieve Kanter

Computerized Cognitive Training in Cognitively Healthy Older Adults: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis of Effect Modifiers pp. 1-18

Amit Lampit, Harry Hallock and Michael Valenzuela

What Could Computerized Brain Training Learn from Evidence-Based Medicine? pp. 1-2

Druin Burch

Volume 11, issue 10, 2014

Treatment of Infections in Young Infants in Low- and Middle-Income Countries: A Systematic Review and Meta-analysis of Frontline Health Worker Diagnosis and Antibiotic Access pp. 1-21

Anne CC Lee, Aruna Chandran, Hadley K Herbert, Naoko Kozuki, Perry Markell, Rashed Shah, Harry Campbell, Igor Rudan and Abdullah H Baqui

How to Make More Published Research True pp. 1-6

John P A Ioannidis

Critical Appraisal and Data Extraction for Systematic Reviews of Prediction Modelling Studies: The CHARMS Checklist pp. 1-12

Karel G M Moons, Joris A H de Groot, Walter Bouwmeester, Yvonne Vergouwe, Susan Mallett, Douglas G Altman, Johannes B Reitsma and Gary S Collins

The Causal Effect of Vitamin D Binding Protein (DBP) Levels on Calcemic and Cardiometabolic Diseases: A Mendelian Randomization Study pp. 1-12

Aaron Leong, Waheed Rehman, Zari Dastani, Celia Greenwood, Nicholas Timpson, Lisa Langsetmo, Claudie Berger, Metastroke, Lei Fu, Betty Y L Wong, Suneil Malik, Rainer Malik, David A Hanley, David E C Cole, David Goltzman and J Brent Richards

Volume 11, issue 9, 2014

Equity-Oriented Monitoring in the Context of Universal Health Coverage pp. 1-9

Ahmad Reza Hosseinpoor, Nicole Bergen, Theadora Koller, Amit Prasad, Anne Schlotheuber, Nicole Valentine, John Lynch and Jeanette Vega

Monitoring and Evaluating Progress towards Universal Health Coverage in Ghana pp. 1-2

Frank Nyonator, Anthony Ofosu, Mabel Segbafah and Selassi d'Almeida

Monitoring and Evaluating Progress towards Universal Health Coverage in Singapore pp. 1-2

Kelvin Bryan Tan, Woan Shin Tan, Marcel Bilger and Calvin W L Ho

Monitoring and Evaluating Progress towards Universal Health Coverage in Tanzania pp. 1-2

Gemini Mtei, Suzan Makawia and Honorati Masanja

Preventing Acute Malnutrition in Young Children: Improving the Evidence for Current and Future Practice pp. 1-2

Marko Kerac and Andrew Seal

Convergence of Mortality Rates among Patients on Antiretroviral Therapy in South Africa and North America pp. 1-2

Agnes Binagwaho, Cameron T Nutt, Placidie Mugwaneza, Claire M Wagner and Sabin Nsanzimana

Sorting Reality from What We Think We Know About Breast Cancer in Africa pp. 1-2

Sulma I Mohammed and Joe B Harford

Monitoring and Evaluating Progress towards Universal Health Coverage in Tunisia pp. 1-2

Mohamed Kouni Chahed and Chokri Arfa

Monitoring Progress towards Universal Health Coverage at Country and Global Levels pp. 1-8

Ties Boerma, Patrick Eozenou, David Evans, Tim Evans, Marie-Paule Kieny and Adam Wagstaff

Readmissions after Hospitalization for Heart Failure, Acute Myocardial Infarction, or Pneumonia among Young and Middle-Aged Adults: A Retrospective Observational Cohort Study pp. 1-18

Isuru Ranasinghe, Yongfei Wang, Kumar Dharmarajan, Angela F Hsieh, Susannah M Bernheim and Harlan M Krumholz

Genetic Predisposition to Increased Blood Cholesterol and Triglyceride Lipid Levels and Risk of Alzheimer Disease: A Mendelian Randomization Analysis pp. 1-15

Petroula Proitsi, Michelle K Lupton, Latha Velayudhan, Stephen Newhouse, Isabella Fogh, Magda Tsolaki, Makrina Daniilidou, Megan Pritchard, Iwona Kloszewska, Hilkka Soininen, Patrizia Mecocci, Bruno Vellas, for the Alzheimer's Disease Neuroimaging Initiative, Julie Williams, for the GERAD1 Consortium, Robert Stewart, Pak Sham, Simon Lovestone and John F Powell

Preventing Acute Malnutrition among Young Children in Crises: A Prospective Intervention Study in Niger pp. 1-15

Céline Langendorf, Thomas Roederer, Saskia de Pee, Denise Brown, Stéphane Doyon, Abdoul-Aziz Mamaty, Lynda W-M Touré, Mahamane L Manzo and Rebecca F Grais

The Clinical and Economic Impact of Point-of-Care CD4 Testing in Mozambique and Other Resource-Limited Settings: A Cost-Effectiveness Analysis pp. 1-15

Emily P Hyle, Ilesh V Jani, Jonathan Lehe, Amanda E Su, Robin Wood, Jorge Quevedo, Elena Losina, Ingrid V Bassett, Pamela P Pei, A David Paltiel, Stephen Resch, Kenneth A Freedberg, Trevor Peter and Rochelle P Walensky

WHO Essential Medicines Policies and Use in Developing and Transitional Countries: An Analysis of Reported Policy Implementation and Medicines Use Surveys pp. 1-16

Kathleen Anne Holloway and David Henry

Global Financing and Long-Term Technical Assistance for Multidrug-Resistant Tuberculosis: Scaling Up Access to Treatment pp. 1-6

Thomas J Hwang and Salmaan Keshavjee

Beyond UHC: Monitoring Health and Social Protection Coverage in the Context of Tuberculosis Care and Prevention pp. 1-10

Knut Lönnroth, Philippe Glaziou, Diana Weil, Katherine Floyd, Mukund Uplekar and Mario Raviglione

Financial Risk Protection and Universal Health Coverage: Evidence and Measurement Challenges pp. 1-11

Priyanka Saksena, Justine Hsu and David B Evans

Monitoring Intervention Coverage in the Context of Universal Health Coverage pp. 1-13

Ties Boerma, Carla AbouZahr, David Evans and Tim Evans

Monitoring and Evaluating Progress towards Universal Health Coverage in Chile pp. 1-3

Ximena Aguilera, Carla Castillo-Laborde, Manuel Nájera- De Ferrari, Iris Delgado and Ciro Ibañez

Monitoring and Evaluating Progress towards Universal Health Coverage in Estonia pp. 1-3

Taavi Lai, Triin Habicht and Maris Jesse

Monitoring and Evaluating Progress towards Universal Health Coverage in South Africa pp. 1-3

John Ataguba, Candy Day and Di McIntyre

Monitoring and Evaluating Progress towards Universal Health Coverage in Brazil pp. 1-3

Mauricio L Barreto, Davide Rasella, Daiane B Machado, Rosana Aquino, Diana Lima, Leila P Garcia, Alexandra C Boing, Jackson Santos, Juan Escalante, Estela M L Aquino and Claudia Travassos

Monitoring and Evaluating Progress towards Universal Health Coverage in China pp. 1-3

Qingyue Meng and Ling Xu

Monitoring and Evaluating Progress towards Universal Health Coverage in Ethiopia pp. 1-3

Abebe Alebachew, Laurel Hatt and Matthew Kukla

Monitoring and Evaluating Progress towards Universal Health Coverage in India pp. 1-3

Narayanan Devadasan, Soumitra Ghosh, Sunil Nandraj and T Sundararaman

Monitoring and Evaluating Progress towards Universal Health Coverage in Bangladesh pp. 1-3

Tanvir Huda, Jahangir A M Khan, Karar Zunaid Ahsan, Kanta Jamil and Shams El Arifeen

Monitoring and Evaluating Progress towards Universal Health Coverage in Thailand pp. 1-3

Viroj Tangcharoensathien, Supon Limwattananon, Walaiporn Patcharanarumol and Jadej Thammatacharee

The PLOS “Monitoring Universal Health Coverage” Collection: Managing Expectations pp. 1-3

The PLOS Medicine Editors

Volume 11, issue 8, 2014

Heart Failure: Gaps in Knowledge and Failures in Treatment pp. 1-2

Druin Burch

Heart Failure Care in Low- and Middle-Income Countries: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis pp. 1-41

Thomas Callender, Mark Woodward, Gregory Roth, Farshad Farzadfar, Jean-Christophe Lemarie, Stéphanie Gicquel, John Atherton, Shadi Rahimzadeh, Mehdi Ghaziani, Maaz Shaikh, Derrick Bennett, Anushka Patel, Carolyn S P Lam, Karen Sliwa, Antonio Barretto, Bambang Budi Siswanto, Alejandro Diaz, Daniel Herpin, Henry Krum, Thomas Eliasz, Anna Forbes, Alastair Kiszely, Rajit Khosla, Tatjana Petrinic, Devarsetty Praveen, Roohi Shrivastava, Du Xin, Stephen MacMahon, John McMurray and Kazem Rahimi

Intervention Synthesis: A Missing Link between a Systematic Review and Practical Treatment(s) pp. 1-7

Paul P Glasziou, Iain Chalmers, Sally Green and Susan Michie

Volume 11, issue 7, 2014

Improving the Transparency of Prognosis Research: The Role of Reporting, Data Sharing, Registration, and Protocols pp. 1-8

George Peat, Richard D Riley, Peter Croft, Katherine I Morley, Panayiotis A Kyzas, Karel G M Moons, Pablo Perel, Ewout W Steyerberg, Sara Schroter, Douglas G Altman, Harry Hemingway and for the PROGRESS Group

Blue Marble Health: A Call for Papers pp. 1-2

Peter J Hotez and Larry Peiperl

Urban Development in Sub-Saharan Africa: Bearer of Goods and Risks pp. 1-2

Fahad Razak and Lisa Berkman

Using Evidence to Combat Overdiagnosis and Overtreatment: Evaluating Treatments, Tests, and Disease Definitions in the Time of Too Much pp. 1-3

Ray Moynihan, David Henry and Karel G M Moons

Defining Catastrophic Costs and Comparing Their Importance for Adverse Tuberculosis Outcome with Multi-Drug Resistance: A Prospective Cohort Study, Peru pp. 1-17

Tom Wingfield, Delia Boccia, Marco Tovar, Arquímedes Gavino, Karine Zevallos, Rosario Montoya, Knut Lönnroth and Carlton A Evans

Volume 11, issue 6, 2014

Evidence for the Selective Reporting of Analyses and Discrepancies in Clinical Trials: A Systematic Review of Cohort Studies of Clinical Trials pp. 1-22

Kerry Dwan, Douglas G Altman, Mike Clarke, Carrol Gamble, Julian P T Higgins, Jonathan A C Sterne, Paula R Williamson and Jamie J Kirkham

Pediatric Oncology as the Next Global Child Health Priority: The Need for National Childhood Cancer Strategies in Low- and Middle-Income Countries pp. 1-5

Sumit Gupta, Roberto Rivera-Luna, Raul C Ribeiro and Scott C Howard

Volume 11, issue 5, 2014

Fecal Contamination of Drinking-Water in Low- and Middle-Income Countries: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis pp. 1-23

Robert Bain, Ryan Cronk, Jim Wright, Hong Yang, Tom Slaymaker and Jamie Bartram

Methods for Specifying the Target Difference in a Randomised Controlled Trial: The Difference ELicitation in TriAls (DELTA) Systematic Review pp. 1-16

Jenni Hislop, Temitope E Adewuyi, Luke D Vale, Kirsten Harrild, Cynthia Fraser, Tara Gurung, Douglas G Altman, Andrew H Briggs, Peter Fayers, Craig R Ramsay, John D Norrie, Ian M Harvey, Brian Buckley, Jonathan A Cook and for the DELTA Group

Volume 11, issue 4, 2014

The Use of Preliminary Scientific Evidence in Public Health: A Case Study of XMRV pp. 1-4

Kumanan Wilson, Katherine Atkinson and Jennifer Keelan

What We Know and What We Don't Know About Preventing Stroke pp. 1-2

Druin Burch and the PLOS Medicine Editors

Volume 11, issue 3, 2014

Water, Sanitation, Hygiene, and Soil-Transmitted Helminth Infection: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis pp. 1-38

Eric C Strunz, David G Addiss, Meredith E Stocks, Stephanie Ogden, Jürg Utzinger and Matthew C Freeman

Assessing Causality in the Association between Child Adiposity and Physical Activity Levels: A Mendelian Randomization Analysis pp. 1-16

Rebecca C Richmond, George Davey Smith, Andy R Ness, Marcel den Hoed, George McMahon and Nicholas J Timpson

The Impact of Pyrethroid Resistance on the Efficacy of Insecticide-Treated Bed Nets against African Anopheline Mosquitoes: Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis pp. 1-32

Clare Strode, Sarah Donegan, Paul Garner, Ahmad Ali Enayati and Janet Hemingway

Building Research Capacity in Africa: Equity and Global Health Collaborations pp. 1-4

Kathryn M Chu, Sudha Jayaraman, Patrick Kyamanywa and Georges Ntakiyiruta

How Can Journals Respond to Threats of Libel Litigation? pp. 1-4

Nav Persaud, Thom Ringer and Trudo Lemmens

Associations between Intimate Partner Violence and Health among Men Who Have Sex with Men: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis pp. 1-12

Ana Maria Buller, Karen M Devries, Louise M Howard and Loraine J Bacchus

Representation and Misrepresentation of Scientific Evidence in Contemporary Tobacco Regulation: A Review of Tobacco Industry Submissions to the UK Government Consultation on Standardised Packaging pp. 1-15

Selda Ulucanlar, Gary J Fooks, Jenny L Hatchard and Anna B Gilmore

Volume 11, issue 2, 2014

Physicians as Fundraisers: Medical Philanthropy and the Doctor-Patient Relationship pp. 1-3

Julian J Z Prokopetz and Lisa Soleymani Lehmann

Data Access for the Open Access Literature: PLOS's Data Policy pp. 1-3

Theodora Bloom, Emma Ganley and Margaret Winker

Incident HIV during Pregnancy and Postpartum and Risk of Mother-to-Child HIV Transmission: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis pp. 1-16

Alison L Drake, Anjuli Wagner, Barbra Richardson and Grace John-Stewart

Living Systematic Reviews: An Emerging Opportunity to Narrow the Evidence-Practice Gap pp. 1-6

Julian H Elliott, Tari Turner, Ornella Clavisi, James Thomas, Julian P T Higgins, Chris Mavergames and Russell L Gruen

Effect of Water, Sanitation, and Hygiene on the Prevention of Trachoma: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis pp. 1-29

Meredith E Stocks, Stephanie Ogden, Danny Haddad, David G Addiss, Courtney McGuire and Matthew C Freeman

Volume 11, issue 1, 2014

Preterm Birth and Childhood Wheezing Disorders: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis pp. 1-18

Jasper V Been, Marlies J Lugtenberg, Eline Smets, Constant P van Schayck, Boris W Kramer, Monique Mommers and Aziz Sheikh

Averting Obesity and Type 2 Diabetes in India through Sugar-Sweetened Beverage Taxation: An Economic-Epidemiologic Modeling Study pp. 1-13

Sanjay Basu, Sukumar Vellakkal, Sutapa Agrawal, David Stuckler, Barry Popkin and Shah Ebrahim

A Risk Prediction Model for the Assessment and Triage of Women with Hypertensive Disorders of Pregnancy in Low-Resourced Settings: The miniPIERS (Pre-eclampsia Integrated Estimate of RiSk) Multi-country Prospective Cohort Study pp. 1-13

Beth A Payne, Jennifer A Hutcheon, J Mark Ansermino, David R Hall, Zulfiqar A Bhutta, Shereen Z Bhutta, Christine Biryabarema, William A Grobman, Henk Groen, Farizah Haniff, Jing Li, Laura A Magee, Mario Merialdi, Annettee Nakimuli, Ziguang Qu, Rozina Sikandar, Nelson Sass, Diane Sawchuck, D Wilhelm Steyn, Mariana Widmer, Jian Zhou, Peter von Dadelszen and for the miniPIERS Study Working Group

Scale-up of Malaria Rapid Diagnostic Tests and Artemisinin-Based Combination Therapy: Challenges and Perspectives in Sub-Saharan Africa pp. 1-4

Guido J H Bastiaens, Teun Bousema and Toby Leslie

Associations between Intimate Partner Violence and Termination of Pregnancy: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis pp. 1-1

Megan Hall, Lucy C Chappell, Bethany L Parnell, Paul T Seed and Susan Bewley

Taxes on Sugar-Sweetened Beverages to Curb Future Obesity and Diabetes Epidemics pp. 1-2

Tony Blakely, Nick Wilson and Bill Kaye-Blake

Home Blood Pressure Monitoring: New Evidence for an Expanded Role pp. 1-2

Mark Caulfield

Improving Women's Health through Universal Health Coverage pp. 1-5

Jonathan Quick, Jonathan Jay and Ana Langer