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Volume 5(9);  September 2008
Guidelines and Guidance
Key Issues in Conducting a Meta-Analysis of Gene Expression Microarray Datasets
Adaikalavan Ramasamy, Adrian Mondry, Chris C Holmes, and Douglas G Altman
PLoS Med. 2008 September; 5(9): e184. Published online 2008 September 2. doi: 10.1371/journal.pmed.0050184.
PMCID: PMC2528050
Ethical and Practical Issues Associated with Aggregating Databases
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
PLoS Med. 2008 September; 5(9): e190. Published online 2008 September 23. doi: 10.1371/journal.pmed.0050190.
PMCID: PMC2553818
Editorial
Making Sense of Non-Financial Competing Interests
The PLoS Medicine Editors
PLoS Med. 2008 September; 5(9): e199. Published online 2008 September 30. doi: 10.1371/journal.pmed.0050199.
PMCID: PMC2553825
Essay
Informed Consent in the Genomics Era
Deborah Mascalzoni, Andrew Hicks, Peter Pramstaller, and Matthias Wjst
PLoS Med. 2008 September; 5(9): e192. Published online 2008 September 16. doi: 10.1371/journal.pmed.0050192.
PMCID: PMC2535658
Perspectives
Tobacco Control Yields Clear Dividends for Health and Wealth
Kelley Lee
PLoS Med. 2008 September; 5(9): e189. Published online 2008 September 16. doi: 10.1371/journal.pmed.0050189.
PMCID: PMC2535659
Birth Size and the Pathogenesis of Breast Cancer
Pagona Lagiou and Dimitrios Trichopoulos
PLoS Med. 2008 September; 5(9): e194. Published online 2008 September 30. doi: 10.1371/journal.pmed.0050194.
PMCID: PMC2553822
Health in Action
Pregnancy Exposure Registries for Assessing Antimalarial Drug Safety in Pregnancy in Malaria-Endemic Countries
Stephanie Dellicour, Feiko O ter Kuile, and Andy Stergachis
PLoS Med. 2008 September; 5(9): e187. Published online 2008 September 9. doi: 10.1371/journal.pmed.0050187.
PMCID: PMC2531138
Policy Forum
Towards a Data Sharing Culture: Recommendations for Leadership from Academic Health Centers
Heather A Piwowar, Michael J Becich, Howard Bilofsky, Rebecca S Crowley, and on behalf of the caBIG Data Sharing and Intellectual Capital Workspace
PLoS Med. 2008 September; 5(9): e183. Published online 2008 September 2. doi: 10.1371/journal.pmed.0050183.
PMCID: PMC2528049
Research in Translation
Animal Models of Inflammatory Bowel Disease at the Dawn of the New Genetics Era
Ludvig M Sollid and Finn-Eirik Johansen
PLoS Med. 2008 September; 5(9): e198. Published online 2008 September 30. doi: 10.1371/journal.pmed.0050198.
PMCID: PMC2553824
Learning Forum
A 50-Year-Old Woman with Recurrent Generalised Seizures
Ronald C. W Ma, Howan Leung, Patrick Kwan, Wing Yee So, Florence Yap, and Chun Chung Chow
PLoS Med. 2008 September; 5(9): e186. Published online 2008 September 9. doi: 10.1371/journal.pmed.0050186.
PMCID: PMC2531139
Research Articles
Revision Rates after Primary Hip and Knee Replacement in England between 2003 and 2006
Nokuthaba Sibanda, Lynn P Copley, Jim D Lewsey, Mick Borroff, Paul Gregg, Alex J MacGregor, Martin Pickford, Martyn Porter, Keith Tucker, Jan H van der Meulen, and on behalf of the Steering Committee of the National Joint Registry (NJR) for England and Wales
PLoS Med. 2008 September; 5(9): e179. Published online 2008 September 2. doi: 10.1371/journal.pmed.0050179.
PMCID: PMC2528048
Lung Cancer Occurrence in Never-Smokers: An Analysis of 13 Cohorts and 22 Cancer Registry Studies
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
PLoS Med. 2008 September; 5(9): e185. Published online 2008 September 9. doi: 10.1371/journal.pmed.0050185.
PMCID: PMC2531137
The Infectiousness of Tuberculosis Patients Coinfected with HIV
A. Roderick Escombe, David A. J Moore, Robert H Gilman, William Pan, Marcos Navincopa, Eduardo Ticona, Carlos Martínez, Luz Caviedes, Patricia Sheen, Armando Gonzalez, Catherine J Noakes, Jon S Friedland, and Carlton A Evans
PLoS Med. 2008 September; 5(9): e188. Published online 2008 September 16. doi: 10.1371/journal.pmed.0050188.
PMCID: PMC2535657
Publication of Clinical Trials Supporting Successful New Drug Applications: A Literature Analysis
Kirby Lee, Peter Bacchetti, and Ida Sim
PLoS Med. 2008 September; 5(9): e191. Published online 2008 September 23. doi: 10.1371/journal.pmed.0050191.
PMCID: PMC2553819
Birth Size and Breast Cancer Risk: Re-analysis of Individual Participant Data from 32 Studies
Isabel dos Santos Silva, Bianca De Stavola, Valerie McCormack, and Collaborative Group on Pre-Natal Risk Factors and Subsequent Risk of Breast Cancer
PLoS Med. 2008 September; 5(9): e193. Published online 2008 September 30. doi: 10.1371/journal.pmed.0050193.
PMCID: PMC2553821
Correction
Correction: Public-Health and Individual Approaches to Antiretroviral Therapy: Township South Africa and Switzerland Compared
Olivia Keiser, Catherine Orrell, Matthias Egger, Robin Wood, Martin W. G Brinkhof, Hansjakob Furrer, Gilles van Cutsem, Bruno Ledergerber, Andrew Boulle, and for the Swiss HIV Cohort Study (SHCS) and the International Epidemiologic Databases to Evaluate AIDS in Southern Africa (IeDEA-SA)
PLoS Med. 2008 September; 5(9): e195. Published online 2008 September 30. doi: 10.1371/journal.pmed.0050195.
PMCID: PMC2553823
Corrects: Olivia Keiser, et al. Correction: Public-Health and Individual Approaches to Antiretroviral Therapy: Township South Africa and Switzerland Compared. PLoS Med. 2008 September; 5(9): e195.
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