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Volume 6(2);  February 2009
Guidelines and Guidance
STrengthening the REporting of Genetic Association Studies (STREGA)— An Extension of the STROBE Statement
Julian Little, Julian P.T Higgins, John P.A Ioannidis, David Moher, France Gagnon, Erik von Elm, Muin J Khoury, Barbara Cohen, George Davey-Smith, Jeremy Grimshaw, Paul Scheet, Marta Gwinn, Robin E Williamson, Guang Yong Zou, Kim Hutchings, Candice Y Johnson, Valerie Tait, Miriam Wiens, Jean Golding, Cornelia van Duijn, John McLaughlin, Andrew Paterson, George Wells, Isabel Fortier, Matthew Freedman, Maja Zecevic, Richard King, Claire Infante-Rivard, Alex Stewart, and Nick Birkett
PLoS Med. 2009 February; 6(2): e1000022. Published online 2009 February 3. doi: 10.1371/journal.pmed.1000022.
PMCID: PMC2634792
Perspective
Ovarian Cancer: A Clinical Challenge That Needs Some Basic Answers
Kate Lawrenson and Simon A Gayther
PLoS Med. 2009 February; 6(2): e1000025. Published online 2009 February 3. doi: 10.1371/journal.pmed.1000025.
PMCID: PMC2634795
Post-Partum Psychosis: Which Women Are at Highest Risk?
Phillipa J Hay
PLoS Med. 2009 February; 6(2): e1000027. Published online 2009 February 10. doi: 10.1371/journal.pmed.1000027.
PMCID: PMC2637919
The PLoS Medicine Debate
What Should Be Done To Tackle Ghostwriting in the Medical Literature?
Peter C Gøtzsche, Jerome P Kassirer, Karen L Woolley, Elizabeth Wager, Adam Jacobs, Art Gertel, and Cindy Hamilton
PLoS Med. 2009 February; 6(2): e1000023. Published online 2009 February 3. doi: 10.1371/journal.pmed.1000023.
PMCID: PMC2634793
Editorial
An Unbiased Scientific Record Should Be Everyone's Agenda
The PLoS Medicine Editors
PLoS Med. 2009 February; 6(2): e1000038. Published online 2009 February 24. doi: 10.1371/journal.pmed.1000038.
PMCID: PMC2646782
Health in Action
Tuberculosis Drug Resistance Mutation Database
Andreas Sandgren, Michael Strong, Preetika Muthukrishnan, Brian K Weiner, George M Church, and Megan B Murray
PLoS Med. 2009 February; 6(2): e1000002. Published online 2009 February 10. doi: 10.1371/journal.pmed.1000002.
PMCID: PMC2637921
Policy Forum
Neglected Disease Research and Development: How Much Are We Really Spending?
Mary Moran, Javier Guzman, Anne-Laure Ropars, Alina McDonald, Nicole Jameson, Brenda Omune, Sam Ryan, and Lindsey Wu
PLoS Med. 2009 February; 6(2): e1000030. Published online 2009 February 3. doi: 10.1371/journal.pmed.1000030.
PMCID: PMC2634791
How Do Courts Set Health Policy? The Case of the Colombian Constitutional Court
Alicia Ely Yamin and Oscar Parra-Vera
PLoS Med. 2009 February; 6(2): e1000032. Published online 2009 February 17. doi: 10.1371/journal.pmed.1000032.
PMCID: PMC2642877
Research in Translation
Malaria Control with Transgenic Mosquitoes
John M Marshall and Charles E Taylor
PLoS Med. 2009 February; 6(2): e1000020. Published online 2009 February 10. doi: 10.1371/journal.pmed.1000020.
PMCID: PMC2637918
Learning Forum
A 21-Year-Old Pregnant Woman with Hypertension and Proteinuria
Andrea Luk, Ronald C. W Ma, Ching Wan Lam, Wing Hung Tam, Anthony W. I Lo, Enders K. W Ng, Alice P. S Kong, Wing Yee So, and Chun Chung Chow
PLoS Med. 2009 February; 6(2): e1000037. Published online 2009 February 24. doi: 10.1371/journal.pmed.1000037.
PMCID: PMC2646781
Research Articles
Psychotic Illness in First-Time Mothers with No Previous Psychiatric Hospitalizations: A Population-Based Study
Unnur Valdimarsdóttir, Christina M Hultman, Bernard Harlow, Sven Cnattingius, and Pär Sparén
PLoS Med. 2009 February; 6(2): e1000013. Published online 2009 February 10. doi: 10.1371/journal.pmed.1000013.
PMCID: PMC2637917
Survival-Related Profile, Pathways, and Transcription Factors in Ovarian Cancer
Anne P. G Crijns, Rudolf S. N Fehrmann, Steven de Jong, Frans Gerbens, Gert Jan Meersma, Harry G Klip, Harry Hollema, Robert M. W Hofstra, Gerard J. te Meerman, Elisabeth G. E de Vries, and Ate G. J van der Zee
PLoS Med. 2009 February; 6(2): e1000024. Published online 2009 February 3. doi: 10.1371/journal.pmed.1000024.
PMCID: PMC2634794
Donor-Derived Brain Tumor Following Neural Stem Cell Transplantation in an Ataxia Telangiectasia Patient
Ninette Amariglio, Abraham Hirshberg, Bernd W Scheithauer, Yoram Cohen, Ron Loewenthal, Luba Trakhtenbrot, Nurit Paz, Maya Koren-Michowitz, Dalia Waldman, Leonor Leider-Trejo, Amos Toren, Shlomi Constantini, and Gideon Rechavi
PLoS Med. 2009 February; 6(2): e1000029. Published online 2009 February 17. doi: 10.1371/journal.pmed.1000029.
PMCID: PMC2642879
A Novel Diagnostic Target in the Hepatitis C Virus Genome
Jan Felix Drexler, Bernd Kupfer, Nadine Petersen, Rejane Maria Tommasini Grotto, Silvia Maria Corvino Rodrigues, Klaus Grywna, Marcus Panning, Augustina Annan, Giovanni Faria Silva, Jill Douglas, Evelyn S. C Koay, Heidi Smuts, Eduardo M Netto, Peter Simmonds, Maria Inês de Moura Campos Pardini, W. Kurt Roth, and Christian Drosten
PLoS Med. 2009 February; 6(2): e1000031. Published online 2009 February 10. doi: 10.1371/journal.pmed.1000031.
PMCID: PMC2637920
Inadequate Dissemination of Phase I Trials: A Retrospective Cohort Study
Evelyne Decullier, An-Wen Chan, and François Chapuis
PLoS Med. 2009 February; 6(2): e1000034. Published online 2009 February 17. doi: 10.1371/journal.pmed.1000034.
PMCID: PMC2642878
Clinico-Pathological Discrepancies in the Diagnosis of Causes of Maternal Death in Sub-Saharan Africa: Retrospective Analysis
Jaume Ordi, Mamudo R Ismail, Carla Carrilho, Cleofé Romagosa, Nafissa Osman, Fernanda Machungo, Josep A Bombí, Juan Balasch, Pedro L Alonso, and Clara Menéndez
PLoS Med. 2009 February; 6(2): e1000036. Published online 2009 February 24. doi: 10.1371/journal.pmed.1000036.
PMCID: PMC2646780
Correction
Correction: Effect of Removing Direct Payment for Health Care on Utilisation and Health Outcomes in Ghanaian Children: A Randomised Controlled Trial
Evelyn Korkor Ansah, Solomon Narh-Bana, Sabina Asiamah, Vivian Dzordzordzi, Kingsley Biantey, Kakra Dickson, John Owusu Gyapong, Kwadwo Ansah Koram, Brian M Greenwood, Anne Mills, and Christopher J. M Whitty
PLoS Med. 2009 February; 6(2): e1000033. Published online 2009 February 24. doi: 10.1371/journal.pmed.1000033.
PMCID: PMC2646778
Corrects: Evelyn Korkor Ansah, et al. Effect of Removing Direct Payment for Health Care on Utilisation and Health Outcomes in Ghanaian Children: A Randomised Controlled Trial. PLoS Med. 2009 January; 6(1): e1000007.
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