Why a Journal on Caste?

Why a New Journal?

Is there need for a journal of infectious diseases in obstetrics and gynecology? It is true that the number of articles related to infectious diseases in obstetrics and gynecology published in existing journals has increased significantly. Many of these articles contain important information on antibiotics or the microbiology and pathophysiology as well as the epidemiology of infections that th...

Why a journal oversight committee?

Why Another Cancer Journal?

Why do we need yet another cancer journal? An excellent question, of course, in light of the profusion of general as well as specialized cancer journals in recent times. An easy answer would simply be to say that this journal will be better than the rest; however a less glib (and probably more accurate) response is simply that there is currently an explosion of new techniques and approaches in ...

Launching the Israel Journal of Health Policy Research: Why a new journal? Why now? Why open access?

The Israel Journal of Health Policy Research (IJHPR) is a new, open access journal. IJHPR seeks to promote intensive intellectual interactions among scholars and practitioners from Israel and other countries regarding all aspects of health policy, with particular attention to Israel. The ultimate aim of these interactions is to contribute to the development of health policy in Israel, and also ...

A journal called “I wonder why not”

A journal called " I wonder why not " Like the question below, papers addressing this could lead to advances in our understanding of inflammatory disease and pain. I wonder why I have never had a wart; nor a cold sore and I have never had the flu and very few colds. My son couldn't get chicken pox, despite putting him on purpose in contact with infected individuals, for months; finally he got I...