| | The PLoS Medicine Debate Should Informed Consent for Cancer Treatment Include a Discussion about Hospital Outcome Disparities? Nadine Housri, Robert J Weil, David I Shalowitz, and Leonidas G Koniaris PLoS Med. 2008 October; 5(10): e214. Published online 2008 October 21. doi: 10.1371/journal.pmed.0050214.PMCID: PMC2570421 Editorial Reform Should Make Health the First Item of Business The PLoS Medicine Editors PLoS Med. 2008 October; 5(10): 1–2. Published online 2008 October 14. doi: 10.1371/journal.pmed.0050208.PMCID: PMC2566999 Essay Why Current Publication Practices May Distort Science Neal S Young, John P. A Ioannidis, and Omar Al-Ubaydli PLoS Med. 2008 October; 5(10): e201. Published online 2008 October 7. doi: 10.1371/journal.pmed.0050201.PMCID: PMC2561077 Perspectives Why Treatment Fails in Type 2 Diabetes Anders Rosengren, Xingjun Jing, Lena Eliasson, and Erik Renström PLoS Med. 2008 October; 5(10): e215. Published online 2008 October 28. doi: 10.1371/journal.pmed.0050215.PMCID: PMC2573917 Health Benefits of Universal Influenza Vaccination Strategy Cécile Viboud and Mark Miller PLoS Med. 2008 October; 5(10): e216. Published online 2008 October 28. doi: 10.1371/journal.pmed.0050216.PMCID: PMC2573918 Health in Action inSPOT: The First Online STD Partner Notification System Using Electronic Postcards Deb Levine, Andrew J Woodruff, A. Rain Mocello, Jaime Lebrija, and Jeffrey D Klausner PLoS Med. 2008 October; 5(10): e213. Published online 2008 October 21. doi: 10.1371/journal.pmed.0050213.PMCID: PMC2570420 Policy Forum Off-Label Promotion, On-Target Sales Adriane Fugh-Berman and Douglas Melnick PLoS Med. 2008 October; 5(10): e210. Published online 2008 October 28. doi: 10.1371/journal.pmed.0050210.PMCID: PMC2573913 Learning Forum Faecal and Urinary Incontinence after Multimodality Treatment of Rectal Cancer Marilyne M Lange and Cornelis J. H van de Velde PLoS Med. 2008 October; 5(10): e202. Published online 2008 October 7. doi: 10.1371/journal.pmed.0050202.PMCID: PMC2561075 Research Articles Vitamin K Supplementation in Postmenopausal Women with Osteopenia (ECKO Trial): A Randomized Controlled Trial Angela M Cheung, Lianne Tile, Yuna Lee, George Tomlinson, Gillian Hawker, Judy Scher, Hanxian Hu, Reinhold Vieth, Lilian Thompson, Sophie Jamal, and Robert Josse PLoS Med. 2008 October; 5(10): 1–12. Published online 2008 October 14. doi: 10.1371/journal.pmed.0050196.PMCID: PMC2566998 SLC2A9 Is a High-Capacity Urate Transporter in Humans Mark J Caulfield, Patricia B Munroe, Deb O'Neill, Kate Witkowska, Fadi J Charchar, Manuel Doblado, Sarah Evans, Susana Eyheramendy, Abiodun Onipinla, Philip Howard, Sue Shaw-Hawkins, Richard J Dobson, Chris Wallace, Stephen J Newhouse, Morris Brown, John M Connell, Anna Dominiczak, Martin Farrall, G. Mark Lathrop, Nilesh J Samani, Meena Kumari, Michael Marmot, Eric Brunner, John Chambers, Paul Elliott, Jaspal Kooner, Maris Laan, Elin Org, Gudrun Veldre, Margus Viigimaa, Francesco P Cappuccio, Chen Ji, Roberto Iacone, Pasquale Strazzullo, Kelle H Moley, and Chris Cheeseman PLoS Med. 2008 October; 5(10): e197. Published online 2008 October 7. doi: 10.1371/journal.pmed.0050197.PMCID: PMC2561076 The Effects of Influenza Vaccination of Health Care Workers in Nursing Homes: Insights from a Mathematical Model Carline van den Dool, Marc J. M Bonten, Eelko Hak, Janneke C. M Heijne, and Jacco Wallinga PLoS Med. 2008 October; 5(10): e200. Published online 2008 October 28. doi: 10.1371/journal.pmed.0050200.PMCID: PMC2573905 Inflammatory and Coagulation Biomarkers and Mortality in Patients with HIV Infection Lewis H Kuller, Russell Tracy, Waldo Belloso, Stephane De Wit, Fraser Drummond, H. Clifford Lane, Bruno Ledergerber, Jens Lundgren, Jacqueline Neuhaus, Daniel Nixon, Nicholas I Paton, James D Neaton, and for the INSIGHT SMART Study Group PLoS Med. 2008 October; 5(10): e203. Published online 2008 October 21. doi: 10.1371/journal.pmed.0050203.PMCID: PMC2570418 Chronic Antidiabetic Sulfonylureas In Vivo: Reversible Effects on Mouse Pancreatic β-Cells Maria Sara Remedi and Colin G Nichols PLoS Med. 2008 October; 5(10): e206. Published online 2008 October 28. doi: 10.1371/journal.pmed.0050206.PMCID: PMC2573909 The Relationship between Proteinuria and Coronary Risk: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis Vlado Perkovic, Christine Verdon, Toshiharu Ninomiya, Federica Barzi, Alan Cass, Anushka Patel, Meg Jardine, Martin Gallagher, Fiona Turnbull, John Chalmers, Jonathan Craig, and Rachel Huxley PLoS Med. 2008 October; 5(10): e207. Published online 2008 October 21. doi: 10.1371/journal.pmed.0050207.PMCID: PMC2570419 The Effect of Universal Influenza Immunization on Mortality and Health Care Use Jeffrey C Kwong, Thérèse A Stukel, Jenny Lim, Allison J McGeer, Ross E. G Upshur, Helen Johansen, Christie Sambell, William W Thompson, Deva Thiruchelvam, Fawziah Marra, Lawrence W Svenson, and Douglas G Manuel PLoS Med. 2008 October; 5(10): e211. Published online 2008 October 28. doi: 10.1371/journal.pmed.0050211.PMCID: PMC2573914 Correction Correction: Bioinformatics and Multiepitope DNA Immunization to Design Rational Snake Antivenom Simon C Wagstaff, Gavin D Laing, R. David G Theakston, Christina Papaspyridis, and Robert A Harrison PLoS Med. 2008 October; 5(10): e209. Published online 2008 October 28. doi: 10.1371/journal.pmed.0050209.PMCID: PMC2573912 Corrects: Simon C Wagstaff, et al. Bioinformatics and Multiepitope DNA Immunization to Design Rational Snake Antivenom. PLoS Med. 2006 June; 3(6): e184. |