ROLLING SPECIAL EDITION

Special Edition: Editorial

It is surprising that over 60 years have elapsed since the first use of influenza vaccines, yet with the advances in biotechnology that have occurred in the interim, the majority of the influenza vaccines that we use today are still non-living viral antigens produced in a relatively uncontrolled substrate, the embryonated chicken egg. It is also surprising that the impact of seasonal influenza ...

MJM Special Abstract Edition

Investigation of positional and orientational contributions to visual shape integration in amblyopic patients . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .93 Richard Dallala, Robert Hess, Behzad Mansouri, Yi-Zhong Wang Nrf2 and Cul3 are potential biomarkers for the evaluation of chemoresistant breast cancer . . . . ...

Special 45th Anniversary Edition

Special Edition of Gut Microbes

Gastrointestinal infections causing diarrhea represent a huge public health problem in all parts of the world. Every year there are about three billion cases of diarrheal disease worldwide, resulting from contaminated food and water sources. In developing countries, diarrheal disease is the second-leading cause of death in children (second only to pneumonia), particularly in children younger th...

Perspectives on Medical Education Special Edition

We’ve all tried things that didn’t work. We’ve enthusiastically introduced a flipped classroom format that the learners didn’t flip over. We’ve carefully crafted research projects only to realize that the hypothesis was woefully ill-conceived. We’ve implemented new assessment strategies that generated lots of data, but left us with little insight into student performance. We’ve all been there. ...