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  • A New Policy on Tobacco Papers
    In this month's editorial, the PLoS Medicine editors announce that they will no longer consider papers for which sup...
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  • Measuring hsCRP—An Important Part of a Comprehensive Risk Profile or a Clinically Redundant Practice?
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  • Packages of Care for Attention-Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder in Low- and Middle-Income Countries
    In the sixth in a series of six articles on packages of care for mental disorders in low- and middle-income countrie...
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  • Adolescent HIV—Cause for Concern in Southern Africa
    Glenda Gray discusses the implications of a new study that found that almost half of all adolescents hospitalized in Zimbabwe were H...
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  • Developing Global Maps of the Dominant Anopheles Vectors of Human Malaria
    Simon Hay and colleagues describe how the Malaria Atlas Project has collated anopheline occurrence data to map the geographic distri...
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  • Ghostwriting at Elite Academic Medical Centers in the United States
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  • The Global Research Neglect of Unassisted Smoking Cessation: Causes and Consequences
    Simon Chapman and Ross MacKenzie review the evidence and argue that health promotion messages should emphasize that the most success...
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  • Guidance for Developers of Health Research Reporting Guidelines
    David Moher and colleagues from the EQUATOR network offer guidance and recommended steps for developing health resea...
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  • Event Rates, Hospital Utilization, and Costs Associated with Major Complications of Diabetes: A Multicountry Comparative Analysis
    Our objective was to estimate and compare event rates, hospital utilization, and costs associated with major diabetes-related compli...
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  • Can Broader Diffusion of Value-Based Insurance Design Increase Benefits from US Health Care without Increasing Costs? Evidence from a Computer Simulation Model
    We used a published computer simulation of costs and life expectancy gains from US health care to estimate the impact of broader dif...
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  • Impact of Antiretroviral Therapy on Incidence of Pregnancy among HIV-Infected Women in Sub-Saharan Africa: A Cohort Study
    We analyzed data from the Mother-to-Child Transmission-Plus (MTCT-Plus) Initiative, a multicountry HIV care and treatment program fo...
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  • Pretreatment CD4 Cell Slope and Progression to AIDS or Death in HIV-Infected Patients Initiating Antiretroviral Therapy—The CASCADE Collaboration: A Collaboration of 23 Cohort Studies
    We carried out survival analyses of patients from the 23 cohorts of the CASCADE (Concerted Action on SeroConversion to AIDS and Deat...
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  • Effectiveness of Non-nucleoside Reverse-Transcriptase Inhibitor-Based Antiretroviral Therapy in Women Previously Exposed to a Single Intrapartum Dose of Nevirapine: A Multi-country, Prospective Cohort Study
    We hypothesized that women with a prior single-dose NVP exposure would have no more than a 10% higher cumulative prevalence of failu...
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  • Causes of Acute Hospitalization in Adolescence: Burden and Spectrum of HIV-Related Morbidity in a Country with an Early-Onset and Severe HIV Epidemic: A Prospective Survey
    Background Survival to older childhood with untreated, vertically acquired HIV infection, which was previously considered extremely...
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  • Automated Detection of Infectious Disease Outbreaks in Hospitals: A Retrospective Cohort Study
    We applied a space-time permutation scan statistic to microbiology data from patients admitted to a 750-bed academic medical center...
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