| | 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. 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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. |