Watergate: Next Time, Will We Be so Lucky?

Will We Be Ready for the Next War?

TO THE EDITOR—The title of Dr Schooley's editorial, " All's (Almost) Quiet on the Western Front: Will We Be Ready for the Next War? " [1] raises a key question: What is the role of the US Department of Defense (DoD) in the Ebola outbreak response? Because Ebola is a biological warfare threat, the DoD has been developing medical countermeasures through its biological defense program for more tha...

Will Alcohol Be the next Tobacco? Will Alcohol Be the next Tobacco?

Leaders Prion diseases: what will be next?

In recent history there is probably no group of disease that has caused more surprises or shocks than the group of transmissible spongiform encephalopathies, or prion diseases as they have become known. Grouped together on the basis of their neuropathology, showing vacuolation of the neuropil or neurones, or both (spongiform change) (fig 1), they present a variable clinical picture; nevertheles...

Next will be apple pie 1 , 2

Three articles appear in this issue of the Journal (1–3) that challenge a long-held belief of both nutrition scientists and the lay public: breakfast is the most important meal of the day. Of course this is true, if you are selling breakfast cereals. Putting profits aside, the consumption of breakfast is currently part of 1) most weight-reduction procedures and 2) school breakfast programs desi...

Who will we be?: JAMA surgery !

T HE ARCHIVES OF SURGERY WILL BE OFFIcially renamed JAMA Surgery, beginning January 1, 2013; the other 8 Archives journals will be renamed similarly for their specialties. When I discussed this with the new JAMA editor, Howard Bauchner, MD, I was excited about the new name. We are uniquely linked to JAMA and this name change will broadcast that association even more vividly. The Archives of Sur...