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Editorial Comment: Therapeutic Orphans

By an odd and unfortunate twist of fate, infants and children are becoming “therapeutic or pharmaceutical orphans.”1 Since 1962 they have been denied the use of many new drugs. The Drug Laws of 1962 had their inception following a pediatric tragedy—the thalidomide catastrophe. The laws of 1938 followed another which resulted from the use of a pediatric dosage form, “elixir” of sulfanilamide. By...

Papers presented at the Annual Meetings of the Knee Society: editorial comment.

T his year’s Proceedings of the Annual Meeting of the Knee Society includes selected manuscripts originally presented at the 2013 Knee Society Members Meeting held in Toronto, Canada in September 2013, as well as those from the 2014 Open Scientific Meeting of the Knee Society held in New Orleans in March 2014. Each paper in these Proceedings has undergone rigorous peer-review to ensure that the...

Editorial: Best Papers of 2009

For the past several years, the JACMP has issued awards to several manuscripts deemed by the Board of Editors to be worthy of the designation “Best Papers.” These awards are selected by a committee of the Board of Editors and are supported by grants from some of our corporate sponsors. By listing the Best Papers of 2009, I would like to honor the award winners for their contributions to the cli...

’ Introduction RED HOT CHILI PAPERS

The Hot Interconnects VIII Symposium (HotI 8) took place during 16-18 August 2000, at Stanford University. If you were among the almost 400 attendees during those few days, you would have no doubt noticed several individuals roaming about dressed in loud, bright yellow Hawaiian shirts decorated with red hot chili peppers. The staff of HotI 8 picked the uniform not only to stand out in the crowd...

Editorial comment--statins, stroke outcome, and stroke prevention: when should we start treatment?