Do we need another journal?

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". [...].

Do we need another Kt/V?

A new method of estimating Kt/V has been proposed. This was a required update to accommodate frequencies of dialysis other than thrice weekly [1].The original approximate method for calculating Kt/V from preand post-dialysis urea concentrations was developed using linear regression on a data set of measurements taken from patients undergoing thrice-weekly dialysis. The method assumes that the i...

Rosuvastatin: do we need another statin?

(1) Rosuvastatin (Crestor(TM)) is a new synthetic agent for the treatment and prevention of lipid disorders, a risk factor for coronary heart disease. (2) Rosuvastatin is undergoing phase III clinical trials. A New Drug Application was submitted to the U.S. Food and Drug Administration in June, 2001. No information on the regulatory status in Canada is currently available. (3) Limited evidence ...

Salt wars: do we need another episode?

Why do we need Cases Journal?

Why would anybody want to publish a journal that is a mountain of case reports? Aren't case reports scientifically discredited? And why in particular would an old stager like me, once editor of the BMJ and strongly associated with evidence-based medicine, want to be the Editor-inChief of such a journal [1]? These are questions that I've had to answer to my own satisfaction to take on the job an...