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Dr. Richard Smith
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Thursday, 22 May 2008
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London, UK. To reinvigorate medicine and provide a useful information tool for clinicians and patients
Why would anybody want to publish a journal that is a mountain of case reports? Aren't case reports scientifically discredited? And why in particular would an old stager like me, once editor of the BMJ and strongly associated with evidence-based medicine, want to be the Editor-in-Chief of such a journal [1]?
These are questions that I've had to answer to my own satisfaction to take on the job and that I need to answer to your satisfaction if you are ever to access this journal again.
Why do we need Cases Journal? Richard Smith. Cases Journal 2008, 1:1. doi: 10.1186 / 1757-1626-1-1 [ Download PDF ]
The case for top of the range case reports has already been convincingly made both by our academic sister publication [2] and by Jan Vandenbroucke, one of the wisest heads in medical science [3,4]. By definition every new condition whether it is AIDS, SARS, or the next emergent disease - begins with a single case. Case reports have always been important for detecting adverse drug reactions [5,6]. They also matter in understanding mechanism of disease and for recognising rare manifestations of diseases. Jeff Aronson and others have described circumstances where case reports can provide definitive not just indicative evidence [7,8].
But what is the case for mass publication of case reports such as this journal hopes to achieve? And we will publish any case report that is authentic, understandable, and ethical. It might be an account of a cold sore or, as on this launch, a description of my "Beijing cough" that includes no health professional and no treatment. Our radical contention - which is perhaps not so radical to medical teach |
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Dr. Richard Smith
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Thursday, 22 May 2008
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London, UK. A journal that wants to accept not reject and to include patients as authors as much as possible
Cases Journal will publish any case report that is authentic, understandable, and ethical. The report doesn't have to be original or "important," and we hope eventually to publish tens of thousands of case reports a year. The accompanying editorial discusses what we hope to achieve with this new journal.
This editorial explains our editorial processes.
Case reports can eventually be submitted by anybody [1] patients, doctors, nurses, relatives, anybody but we are starting with simply clinicians. We are providing a template [2] that will make it easy for authors to include the information that every case report should contain (age, sex, etc), but authors don't have to use the template. We want to make it as easy as possible for authors to submit. Our staff will check for essential information, and if it is missing we'll come back to you.
The policies of Cases Journal. Richard Smith. Cases Journal 2008, 1:2. doi: 10.1186 / 1757-1626-1-2 [ Download PDF ]
It will be essential to include signed consent from the patient. In |
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TS-Si News Service
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Tuesday, 20 May 2008
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Rochester, MN, USA. Are the health needs of women adequately addressed by medical research as it is currently conducted? Researchers say a growing body of evidence shows important differences between men and women must be addressed by medical research, including how they respond to treatment and the long-term outcomes. Australian researchers and two cardiologists examine this question in the Mayo Clinic Proceedings, published by Mayo Foundation for Medical Education and Research.
"The traditional model of medical research was limited by gender and racial blindness and assumed that results of research on white male participants could be easily extrapolated to female and minority populations," write Wendy Rogers, B.M.B.S., Ph.D., and Angela Ballantyne, Ph.D., from the School of Medicine at Flinders University (Adelaide, AUS).
Exclusion of Women From Clinical Research: Myth or Reality? Wendy A. Rogers; Angela J. Ballantyne; for the Australian Gender Quity In Health Research Group. Mayo Clin Proc. 2008;83(5):536-542.
Drs. Rogers and Ballantyne reviewed 400 clinical studies that were conducted in Australia and the results were published in journ |
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TS-Si News Service
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Wednesday, 14 May 2008
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Berkeley, CA, USA. Standard magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) has found increasing usefulness for research and acceptance as a diagnostic tool, but it cannot meet the more stringent requirements of current needs. The relatively low sensitivity of standard MRI limits image resolution and patients must remain motionless for long periods of time inside noisy, claustrophobic machines. However, a promising new MRI advance is in the laboratory and nearly ready for wider use.
Researchers in the neurosciences and neurobiology in general are likely to have first access to the significant new capabilities within the next few years. Clinical settings would benefit thereafter, providing diagnosticians with detection tools that far surpass the standard MRI technology of today.
The new technique builds on a series of previous MRI developments and incorporates findings from the closely related field of nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR). Instead of an image, NMR yields a spectrum of molecular information. Combining MRI and NMR makes for a powerful method that is much faster, more selective able to distinguish even among specific target molecules and many th |
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Springfield, VA, USA. Society (the women and men around us) has always been more comfortable if its members fall within certain known, established patterns: this is how we dress, this is what we say, this is... |
Washington, DC, USA. Science shows that the human brain and central nervous system form before the remaining portions of our overall body plan. This is a central insight and the province of developmental biology, particularly embryology, which deals with the development of organs and other anatomical structures... |
Edmunton, Alberta, Canada. Does emotional wisdom come with age? Researchers identified brain patterns that help healthy people over the age of 60 regulate and control emotion better than younger counterparts. Two brain regions increased activity when... |
Washington, DC, USA. Criticism of the Washington state Democratic Party for an attack ad that linked an Italian-American politician to fictional organized crime. The Pennsylvania Senate ponders expansion of bathroom access to people with bowel disorders. North Carolina's motor vehicle department embarrassed by a sample license plate on its... |
Washington, DC, USA. As fuel and energy costs continue to soar to record highs, a growing number of states are offering more of their public employees compressed workweeks to hold down states energy spending and give long-distance commuters some relief from paying high gas prices.
Utah Gov. Jon Huntsman... |
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Monday, 23 June 2008
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Sharon Gaughan
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Friday, 20 June 2008
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Monday, 02 June 2008
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Friday, 21 March 2008
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Friday, 14 March 2008
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Monday, 09 June 2008
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Sharon Gaughan
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Monday, 19 May 2008
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Sunday, 11 May 2008
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Wednesday, 25 June 2008
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Sunday, 01 June 2008
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Wednesday, 07 May 2008
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Friday, 02 May 2008
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Friday, 02 May 2008
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Christine Vestal
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Thursday, 24 April 2008
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Saturday, 19 April 2008
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So They Say
To succeed in the world it is not enough to be stupid, you must also be well-mannered.
Voltaire
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Finding Our Way
Richard Smith, Editor-in-Chief, introduces Cases Journal. Dr. Smith urges all physicians to submit their case reports to the new open access Cases Journal, which publishes case reports from any area of healthcare.
Cases Journal will publish any case report that is understandable, ethical, authentic, and includes all essential information. A more selective companion, the Journal of Medical Case Reports, publishes original and interesting case reports that contribute significantly to medical knowledge. Article submissions are subject to potential publication by either journal. All reports will be entered in a common and open access database.
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