Another Journal

Why Another Cancer Journal?

Why do we need yet another cancer journal? An excellent question, of course, in light of the profusion of general as well as specialized cancer journals in recent times. An easy answer would simply be to say that this journal will be better than the rest; however a less glib (and probably more accurate) response is simply that there is currently an explosion of new techniques and approaches in ...

“What, another journal?”

Yes, and here is why. As the selected Editor-in-Chief of this new Elsevier Infectious Diseases journal, ID Cases, I have embarked on a mission to fill a gap in teaching ID by reinforcing many of the common sense adages abounding in our field. We are quite good at common sense in ID, a nonprocedural subspecialty of Internal Medicine. In reality, common sense is our procedure, our gimmick. Often ...

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Another Journal on Nanomaterials?

It is my great pleasure to welcome you to Nanomaterials, a new open access journal, which is dedicated to the fabrication, characterization, functionalization, modeling and application of nanomaterials. In answer to the title question, I would like to (mis)quote one of my favourite pieces of literature: I "[We] hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men ... are endowed ... with certain ...

Why We Do Need Another Medical Journal…

The English word "health" comes from the Old English word hale, meaning "wholeness, a state of being and feeling whole, sound or well" [1]. Hale comes from the Proto-Indo-European root "kailo", meaning "whole, uninjured, of good omen". Kailo comes from the Proto-Germanic root "khalbas", meaning "something (un)divided". [...].