Editor's Gloss: A View From Outside

An Insider’s View from the Outside

V -A theory: a view from the outside

In this talk I will review the V -A theory within the context of the prevalent experimental results at the time. It is a great pleasure for me to be able to participate in this celebration in honor of Professor George Sudarshan. Let me say right away that unlike the other speakers in this session, I haven’t had the opportunity to collaborate with George yet. On the other hand, George is still y...

The discovery of ezetimibe: a view from outside the receptor.

The term “rationale drug design” has been used for more than 30 years to describe a marriage of experiment and technology intended to promote a more directed approach toward drug discovery, often focusing on whatever the hottest technology of the time might be.1 While the technology has changed over the years, the underlying goal has always been to provide a level of insight that would permit r...

Evaluating ethics committees: a view from the outside.

More than 60 percent of hospitals have ethics committees. The wide-scale, voluntary adoption of these committees by hospitals is surprising, given the lack of data on their effectiveness. Little effort has been made to evaluate such committees, in part because of the lack of consensus on their purpose. The argument presented here is that, from a policy perspective, the committees' purpose must ...

Missues of Authorship - Editors View

Ethics is a philosophical discipline and present set of customs, habits and norms, by which people of one community manage their actions and their overall behavior. Ethical behavior and ethical norms have a great impact on scientific publications, and the goal of each magazine, especially the Editorial Board of journal, and Editors themselves, are to follow the ethical behavior principles in al...