Interim Editors' Introduction

Interim Editors’ report

When the interim editorial team took over from the former Editors in September 2002, there were many aspects of the production and editing process for us to understand. This initial period also involved setting up a new system of administration that would clearly track all correspondence with authors and reviewers. Of the new papers received since September 2002, two-thirds were submitted by fe...

Interim Editors Bring Breadth of Experience

A 124 VOLUME 115 | NUMBER 3 | March 2007 • Environmental Health Perspectives As many of you are aware, Jim Burkhart retired as editor-in-chief of EHP in January of this year. Jim did an excep t i ona l j ob o f guiding the journal, and under his leadership EHP saw a rise in impact factor that now ranks the journal in first place in two categor ie s o f sc ient i f i c publications: environmenta...

Healthcare [Guest editors' introduction]

W e’re moving closer to realizing pervasive computing devices that can monitor our health status, both individually and as a community. Imagine what doctors could do with ECG data collected on a more regular basis, as people carry on their daily activities. The ability to monitor day-to-day heart data would profoundly affect how the medical community tracks our individual health status. Likewis...

Focus: Guest Editors’ Introduction

Introduction from the Editors

Recent evidence suggests that the prevalence of various allergic conditions such as allergic rhinitis, food allergy and eosinophilic esophagitis (EoE) is on the rise [1-3]. Over the last decade, there have been significant advances in our current understanding of these as well as other common allergic and immunological diseases. The purpose of this supplement entitled, A Practical Guide for All...