Editorials on original contributions to medical journals

Handing the Microphone to Women: Changes in Gender Representation in Editorial Contributions Across Medical and Health Journals 2008-2018

The editorial materials in top medical and public health journals are opportunities for experts to offer thoughts that might influence the trajectory of the field. To date, while some studies have examined gender bias in the publication of editorial materials in medical journals, none have studied public health journals. In this perspective, we studied the gender ratio ...

Why do anaesthesia journals publish editorials?

Medical journals need and use editorials for the same reasons that newspapers do. They provide a focus; they give direction; they stimulate interest. Editorials are part of the personality of the journal that will make readers like or loathe it, and either reaction is better than indifference. One of the more pernicious effects of evidence-based medicine has been encouragement of the belief tha...

Original contributions of Latin-Americans to anesthesia.

[Goodbye to print medical journals?].

Original Contributions Stroke in Blacks

In an attempt to answer unresolved questions and to suggest directions for future research concerning stroke in black populations, data from the National Center for Health Statistics were examined and published studies were reviewed. Stroke was the third leading cause of death among U.S. blacks in 1982, accounting for 18,698 deaths, 8.25% of the total. Black men aged 35-74 years were 2.5 times ...