At Our Convenience

CMAJ at 100: our voice, our future.

© 2011 Canadian Medical Association or its licensors CMAJ, January 11, 2011, 183(1) 15 As society and health care have evolved, so too has CMAJ. Indeed, the journal is a reflection of the society in which it is firmly rooted. With its 100-year history and the many successes highlighted by CMA President Dr. Jeffrey Turnbull, CMAJ is ready to move into its second century. CMAJ has sought to disse...

Changes at Our Journal

I am honored and thrilled to serve as the new Editorin-Chief of the American Journal of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene (AJTMH). I am also humbled because this will be a challenging task, and Jim Kazura left big shoes to fill. Jim’s skillful leadership of the Journal for the last 15 years has been an enormous service to the membership of the American Society of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene (ASTM...

Convenience Sampling

Convenience Sampling

Our unborn children at risk?

T he study by Ang et al. (1) in this issue of PNAS strikes a precautionary note, in that it presents experimental evidence that prolonged continuous ultrasound (US) exposure may cause mild disruption in neuronal migration to the cerebral cortex in fetal mice. The authors (1) suggest that such neuronal heterotopia may result in anomalies in brain circuitry and synaptic activity. Does this study ...