Thorax: from the new Editorial Office

Note from the Editorial Office

On behalf of the ERA-EDTA, the NDT Editorial Office is proud to present its new educational journal NDT Plus. As announced in our Editorial Note1 in the July 2007 issue, this new bimonthly journal is designed to enhance, complement and add value to the leading nephrology journal NDT. NDT Plus aims to be an educational and training resource focusing on postgraduate clincial education and topics ...

Report from the Editorial Office

On behalf of all our staff and the publisher OUP, we would like to convey our best wishes for the New Year to our readers, editors and reviewers and want to thank them all for their continuing support of the journal. With this editorial, we also provide an update on last year's achievements. As shown below, the number of submissions to NDT Plus has remained more or less the same over the past f...

Special Feature Report from the Editorial Office

In July 2002, we started our second 3-year term as the Editors of Nephrology Dialysis Transplantation (NDT). We are pleased to see that a large readership consults the journal, either in its usual paper format or in its more recently introduced electronic format. Important changes in manuscript handling have occurred in the last 2 years, as outlined below. We also give an update on manuscript f...

The Viewpoint of IJMS New Editorial Board

Thorax editorial by Jenkins and Beasley related to tiotropium respimat.

We thank Drs Jenkins and Beasley for their comments in the recent editorial regarding tiotropium (SPIRIVA). Preceding the Singh et al analysis cited by the authors, Boehringer Ingelheim (BI) had analysed both the tiotropium HandiHaler and Respimat pooled datasets using patient-level data on-treatment as well as including vital status. The results showed a nominally statistically significant red...