New Era of WCRP has Started!

Phase I trials in oncology: a new era has started.

Has science started to go wrong?

Pharmacist prescribing: has the momentum started?

At a March 2012 session in Calgary on legal liability related to expanded scope of practice, numerous pharmacists vehemently criticized the Alberta government for implementing, on July 1, 2012, payment to pharmacists for renewing prescriptions. The pharmacists were not criticizing the amount of the fee but, rather, the fact that they would have to perform the activity (i.e., renew prescriptions...

Japanese Legacy Cohorts: A New Series of Special Articles Has Started

A new series of articles on “Japanese legacy cohorts” has started from this issue of the Journal of Epidemiology. The first memorable article of this series is about the “Life Span Study,” the cohort of the Hiroshima and Nagasaki atomic bomb survivors.1 This special article by Ozasa et al sends us back to the era more than 70 years ago. This cohort study was started in the 1950s in the midst of...

The second year of the Journal of Hematopathology has started

The second year of the Journal of Hematopathology has started with this first and rich issue. The previous issue that was the first one printed, at the occasion of the Bordeaux Meeting of the EAHP and the SH, was very well received and contained the abstracts for the lymphoma and bone marrow symposium. That these two fields are really the pillars of Hematopathology is reflected by the two revie...