| | Editorial Better Reporting, Better Research: Guidelines and Guidance in PLoS Medicine The PLoS Medicine Editors PLoS Med. 2008 April; 5(4): e99. Published online 2008 April 29. doi: 10.1371/journal.pmed.0050099.PMCID: PMC2346507 Perspectives Exposure to War as a Risk Factor for Mental Disorders David M Benedek and Robert J Ursano PLoS Med. 2008 April; 5(4): e82. Published online 2008 April 1. doi: 10.1371/journal.pmed.0050082.PMCID: PMC2276524 Quantifying the Importance of Interleukin-6 for Coronary Heart Disease Bruce Neal PLoS Med. 2008 April; 5(4): e84. Published online 2008 April 8. doi: 10.1371/journal.pmed.0050084.PMCID: PMC2288621 A Blood Test for Lung Fibrosis Peter J Barnes PLoS Med. 2008 April; 5(4): e98. Published online 2008 April 29. doi: 10.1371/journal.pmed.0050098.PMCID: PMC2346506 Standardising Outcomes in Paediatric Clinical Trials Mike Clarke PLoS Med. 2008 April; 5(4): e102. Published online 2008 April 29. doi: 10.1371/journal.pmed.0050102.PMCID: PMC2346508 Health in Action Progress in Vaccination against Haemophilus influenzae type b in the Americas M. Carolina Danovaro-Holliday, Salvador Garcia, Ciro de Quadros, Gina Tambini, and Jon K Andrus PLoS Med. 2008 April; 5(4): e87. Published online 2008 April 22. doi: 10.1371/journal.pmed.0050087.PMCID: PMC2292748 Policy Forum Chile's Neoliberal Health Reform: An Assessment and a Critique Jean-Pierre Unger, Pierre De Paepe, Giorgio Solimano Cantuarias, and Oscar Arteaga Herrera PLoS Med. 2008 April; 5(4): e79. Published online 2008 April 1. doi: 10.1371/journal.pmed.0050079.PMCID: PMC2276520 Improving Defences at the Portal of HIV Entry: Mucosal and Innate Immunity: A summary report from a Global HIV Vaccine Enterprise Working Group Robin J Shattock, Barton F Haynes, Bali Pulendran, Jorge Flores, José Esparza, and on behalf of a Working Group convened by the Global HIV Vaccine Enterprise PLoS Med. 2008 April; 5(4): e81. Published online 2008 April 1. doi: 10.1371/journal.pmed.0050081.PMCID: PMC2276525 What Are the Implications for Childhood Pneumonia of Successfully Introducing Hib and Pneumococcal Vaccines in Developing Countries? J. Anthony G Scott and Mike English PLoS Med. 2008 April; 5(4): e86. Published online 2008 April 22. doi: 10.1371/journal.pmed.0050086.PMCID: PMC2292749 Research in Complex Humanitarian Emergencies: The Médecins Sans Frontières/epicentre Experience Vincent Brown, Philippe J Guerin, Dominique Legros, Christophe Paquet, Bernard Pécoul, and Alain Moren PLoS Med. 2008 April; 5(4): e89. Published online 2008 April 15. doi: 10.1371/journal.pmed.0050089.PMCID: PMC2288622 Research Articles Lifetime Prevalence of Mental Disorders in Lebanon: First Onset, Treatment, and Exposure to War Elie G Karam, Zeina N Mneimneh, Hani Dimassi, John A Fayyad, Aimee N Karam, Soumana C Nasser, Somnath Chatterji, and Ronald C Kessler PLoS Med. 2008 April; 5(4): e61. Published online 2008 April 1. doi: 10.1371/journal.pmed.0050061.PMCID: PMC2276523 The Reversal of Fortunes: Trends in County Mortality and Cross-County Mortality Disparities in the United States Majid Ezzati, Ari B Friedman, Sandeep C Kulkarni, and Christopher J. L Murray PLoS Med. 2008 April; 5(4): e66. Published online 2008 April 22. doi: 10.1371/journal.pmed.0050066.PMCID: PMC2323303 Cytological and Transcript Analyses Reveal Fat and Lazy Persister-Like Bacilli in Tuberculous Sputum Natalie J Garton, Simon J Waddell, Anna L Sherratt, Su-Min Lee, Rebecca J Smith, Claire Senner, Jason Hinds, Kumar Rajakumar, Richard A Adegbola, Gurdyal S Besra, Philip D Butcher, and Michael R Barer PLoS Med. 2008 April; 5(4): e75. Published online 2008 April 1. doi: 10.1371/journal.pmed.0050075.PMCID: PMC2276522 A Randomised, Blinded, Placebo-Controlled Trial in Dementia Patients Continuing or Stopping Neuroleptics (The DART-AD Trial) Clive Ballard, Marisa Margallo Lana, Megan Theodoulou, Simon Douglas, Rupert McShane, Robin Jacoby, Katja Kossakowski, Ly-Mee Yu, Edmund Juszczak, and on behalf of the Investigators DART AD PLoS Med. 2008 April; 5(4): e76. Published online 2008 April 1. doi: 10.1371/journal.pmed.0050076.PMCID: PMC2276521 Long-Term Interleukin-6 Levels and Subsequent Risk of Coronary Heart Disease: Two New Prospective Studies and a Systematic Review John Danesh, Stephen Kaptoge, Andrea G Mann, Nadeem Sarwar, Angela Wood, Sara B Angleman, Frances Wensley, Julian P. T Higgins, Lucy Lennon, Gudny Eiriksdottir, Ann Rumley, Peter H Whincup, Gordon D. O Lowe, and Vilmundur Gudnason PLoS Med. 2008 April; 5(4): e78. Published online 2008 April 8. doi: 10.1371/journal.pmed.0050078.PMCID: PMC2288623 Estimating Incidence from Prevalence in Generalised HIV Epidemics: Methods and Validation Timothy B Hallett, Basia Zaba, Jim Todd, Ben Lopman, Wambura Mwita, Sam Biraro, Simon Gregson, J. Ties Boerma, and on behalf of the ALPHA Network PLoS Med. 2008 April; 5(4): e80. Published online 2008 April 8. doi: 10.1371/journal.pmed.0050080.PMCID: PMC2288620 In Vivo Response to Methotrexate Forecasts Outcome of Acute Lymphoblastic Leukemia and Has a Distinct Gene Expression Profile Michael J Sorich, Nicolas Pottier, Deqing Pei, Wenjian Yang, Leo Kager, Gabriele Stocco, Cheng Cheng, John C Panetta, Ching-Hon Pui, Mary V Relling, Meyling H Cheok, and William E Evans PLoS Med. 2008 April; 5(4): e83. Published online 2008 April 15. doi: 10.1371/journal.pmed.0050083.PMCID: PMC2292747 Targeted Nanoparticles for Imaging Incipient Pancreatic Ductal Adenocarcinoma Kimberly A Kelly, Nabeel Bardeesy, Rajesh Anbazhagan, Sushma Gurumurthy, Justin Berger, Herlen Alencar, Ronald A DePinho, Umar Mahmood, and Ralph Weissleder PLoS Med. 2008 April; 5(4): e85. Published online 2008 April 15. doi: 10.1371/journal.pmed.0050085.PMCID: PMC2292750 Mutations in a Novel, Cryptic Exon of the Luteinizing Hormone/Chorionic Gonadotropin Receptor Gene Cause Male Pseudohermaphroditism Nina Kossack, Manuela Simoni, Annette Richter-Unruh, Axel P. N Themmen, and Jörg Gromoll PLoS Med. 2008 April; 5(4): e88. Published online 2008 April 22. doi: 10.1371/journal.pmed.0050088.PMCID: PMC2323302 MMP1 and MMP7 as Potential Peripheral Blood Biomarkers in Idiopathic Pulmonary Fibrosis Ivan O Rosas, Thomas J Richards, Kazuhisa Konishi, Yingze Zhang, Kevin Gibson, Anna E Lokshin, Kathleen O Lindell, Jose Cisneros, Sandra D MacDonald, Annie Pardo, Frank Sciurba, James Dauber, Moises Selman, Bernadette R Gochuico, and Naftali Kaminski PLoS Med. 2008 April; 5(4): e93. Published online 2008 April 29. doi: 10.1371/journal.pmed.0050093.PMCID: PMC2346504 A Systematic Review of Studies That Aim to Determine Which Outcomes to Measure in Clinical Trials in Children Ian Sinha, Leanne Jones, Rosalind L Smyth, and Paula R Williamson PLoS Med. 2008 April; 5(4): e96. Published online 2008 April 29. doi: 10.1371/journal.pmed.0050096.PMCID: PMC2346505 |