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MCH professionals play an invaluable role by serving as peer-reviewers for their professional journal. The peer-review process is a fundamental part of maintaining the scientific rigor and professional relevance of our field's literature. The purpose of this article is to provide guidance for the review of manuscripts submitted for publication to professional and scientific journals. In additio...

Medical Illustrations in Medieval Manuscripts, by LOREN MACKINNEY, London, Wellcome Historical Medical Library, 1965, pp. xvii, 263, 104 plates, 105s. It is a pity that Loren MacKinney did not live to see the publication of this beautifully produced book, which represents to some extent the culminating point of his thirty years' search for medical illustrations in medieval manuscripts. He had i...

Authors face the tedious bookkeeping problem of maintaining the consistency of references to figures, citations, and other numbered entities in successive drafts of a manuscript. If a figure is added to or deleted from the manuscript, the numbers of all subsequent figures must be adjusted, along with the references to these figures. In this note, we show how the UNIX commands grep, awk, and sed...

Publication in biomedical research is essential for dissemination of relevant information and advances in science and medicine. The main currency for biomedical publications is the manuscript, which can be of various types, including but not limited to original studies, reviews, and case series. Biomedical writing for purposes of a manuscript is an art which builds on early linguistic and schol...

CONTEXT Studies with positive results are more likely to be published than studies with negative results (publication bias). One reason this occurs is that authors are less likely to submit manuscripts reporting negative results to journals. There is no evidence that publication bias occurs once manuscripts have been submitted to a medical journal. We assessed whether submitted manuscripts that...