Introduction: Development of Cardiovascular Research German academic cardiovascular medicine has been traditionally rigidly separated into clinical cardiology, where the top clinicians had some early career basic science exposure but practiced exclusively clinical medicine, and classic basic science departments, that is, physiology, pharmacology, and pathology, where the chair had a cardiovascu...

The first two articles in this issue of CIRCULATION RESEARCH by Jos A. E. Spaan and Francis /. Klocke et al. address various aspects of coronary pressure-flow relationships which have been a matter of some controversy in recent years. Issues such as the physiological significance of zero flow pressure and the role of intramyocardial compliance are important for our understanding of the regulati...

CLINICS is a multidisciplinary medical journal. This editorial highlights the field of cardiovascular research. We have selected papers published from 2011-2012 and focused on the concept of Continuously Variable Rating, which we have recently introduced as an alternative and hopefully superior method for evaluating published scientific papers (1). Ciolac and Greve (2) compared the heart rate r...