Hypertension is both a disease and a risk factor. Long-term research objectives are to understand blood pressure homeostasis and the pathogeneses of the various forms of hypertension. Short-term research objectives center around enhancing methods for detection, evaluation, treatment, and control of high blood pressure because, even in the absence of precise knowledge of the etiology of hyperten...

In the present state of medical science, this subject is no doubt an obscure one, but it is highly interesting to the general pathologist and the scientist as well. Sir Joseph Fayrer, in his ? Dissertation on Elephantiasis of the Scrotum, has made a few remarks on the probable relation between lunar influence and the progress of elephantoid disease; but evidently from paucity of facts, he faile...

On August 1, I had the honor of becoming Editor-in-Chief of CBE—Life Sciences Education, replacing William (Bill) Wood, who led the journal in this capacity for the past five years. Bill spearheaded a significant broadening in the scope of the journal, including its renaming to CBE—Life Sciences Education and an expansion of the editorial board to represent more life science disciplines and a g...