Editorial. On editorial freedom: implications of the JAMA affair

On editorial freedom: implications of the JAMA affair.

As this edition was going to press, the news broke that the executive vice president of the American Medical Association (AMA), E RatcliVe Anderson, had sacked George Lundberg, who had edited the Journal of the American Medical Association (JAMA) for 17 years. Because we see this as of great importance for public health, we have taken the unusual decision to publish a joint editorial that will ...

Editorial Neointima Formation A Local Affair

Where do intimal smooth muscle cells (SMCs) come from? For many years, the idea that intimal SMCs originated from the underlying media went unchallenged.1 Then, reports2,3 began to appear that up to half of the SMCs in the intima of atherosclerotic plaques and injured arteries arose from circulating progenitor cells of bone marrow origin. This new view of intimal SMC formation was potentially i...

Editorial: Habits: plasticity, learning and freedom

" During much of our waking lives, we act according to our habits, from the time we rise and go through our morning routines until we fall asleep after evening routines. Taken in this way, habits have long attracted the interest of philosophers and psychologists, and they have been alternatively praised and cursed. " This is a passage extracted from a highly cited article by Ann Graybiel, one o...

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