Editorial for Special Issue of Microbiota Bagher Larijani Professor, Endocrinology and Metabolism Research Center, Endocrinology and Metabolism Clinical Sciences Institute, Tehran University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran

CONTEXT With the recent merger of the American Osteopathic Association and the Accreditation Council for Graduate Medical Education, new standards may be established for scholarly activity criteria and designation for each specialty. OBJECTIVE To determine the percentage of osteopathic physicians on editorial boards in general and specialty medical journals and to compare the participation of...

Editor—The sacking of Lundberg as JAMA’s editor is a very sad event for editorial freedom in general and for medical journals world wide in particular. This disgraceful incident has shown that neither size nor success gives any guarantee for editorial freedom— not even the two combined. The fight for integrity must go on continuously in every editorial office every day. Lundberg has been an exa...

it has been estimated that each year 50,000 newborns born prematurely and underweight and are candidates to have retinopathy of prematurity (rop) .1 in the developing countries where we see most of the blind children, rop is accused to be one of the essential causes of blindness.2 rop and its consequences (impaired vision and blindness) could be prevented in most cases by an early ocular examin...

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INTRODUCTION Each journal's editorial and advisory board plays a critical role in resolving gender bias in the peer-review and publication process. Thus, this study aimed to quantify women's participation in editorial and advisory boards of major dental journals. Gender data on editorial and advisory boards were extracted from major dental journals, which were then categorized by journal specia...

Wataru Araki is presently a section chief at the National Institute of Neuroscience, National Center of Neurology and Psychiatry (NCNP), Tokyo, Japan. His research mainly focuses on the molecular and cellular mechanisms underlying neurodegenerative dementia disorders including Alzheimer’s disease. He seeks the core problems in the pathogenesis of the diseases with an aim to translate the discov...

I was born in Leningrad, Soviet Union in 1951, and have received my B.Sc. in Biology/Biophysics (1971) and M.Sc. in Biochemistry (1973) from the Faculty of Biological Sciences at the Leningrad State University. After receiving my Ph.D. Degree in Molecular Biology and Cancer Biology (1979) from the Petrov Cancer Research Institute, I was continuing my research as a research scientist there. In 1...

Since 2002, a workshop entitled “Asthma in animal models” has been held once a year in Hannover, Germany. It is organized by the Fraunhofer Institute of Toxicology and Experimental Medicine in collaboration with the collaborative research centre “Sonderforschungsbereich” 587, “Immune reactions of the lung in infection and allergy” (Hannover Medical School). The aim of these meetings is an inten...