Medical Journals in the Future

The future of medical journals

This edited book provides a very useful series of chapters relating to the development of arterial and heart disease in diabetics. Atherosclerosis is widely recognised to be the major killer in Type I and Type II diabetic patients, but there are few comprehensive reviews of the background data and this book fills a niche. Robert Stout has been joined by colleagues in Belfast who cover the patho...

Future evolution of traditional journals and social media medical education.

Over the past two decades, the Internet has emerged as a powerful tool for the dissemination of medical knowledge. The routine online publication of peer-reviewed journals and the standardisation of the portable document format (.pdf) marked a coming of age for Internet technology allowing readers, authors and editors to quickly access articles old and new and share them efficiently. Although t...

STATISTICS IN INTERNATIONAL MEDICAL JOURNALS OF IRAN

Advertisements in Medical Journals

Sir,?I am tired of advertisements. To pick up genuine things from heaps of rubbish has become very difficult. I find advertisements of new medicine from new mushroom firms daily. Naturally all cannot be relied upon. So be pleased to inform the public whether the advertisements regarding medicines that are found in the Indian Medical Gazette or in other journals are genuine, reliable and can be ...

Medical journals are dead. Long live medical journals.

© 2000 Canadian Medical Association or its licensors The year is 2003. The world’s leading medical journal has gone bankrupt. Three leading Englishlanguage cardiology journals are merging. Some general medical journals are thriving; others have begun to founder. Dr. Harold Varmus has received the Nobel Peace Prize. The tidal wave that led to these events is PubMed Central, a central, entirely e...