In the recent two decades, Cardiovascular Research has grown into a leading journal in the cardiovascular field. Strong leadership and regular renewal have boosted this growth. It is therefore with pride and not without some trepidation that we take over the editorial leadership. Michael Piper, David Garcia-Dorado and their team hand over a thriving journal. In their decade of leadership the jo...

Nurses have been at the heart of services for people with HIV and AIDS for 30 years. In this article nurses reveal what it was like to care for patients in the early 1980s, when a positive diagnosis of HIV was effectively a death sentence. They describe the progress since then and the challenges they face today.

To characterize patient satisfaction surveys, such as the U.S. government-mandated Press Ganey health care performance improvement tools, as unpopular among health care providers is an understatement. So it comes as no real surprise that among medical practitioners a recent internet headline went viral that “reported” that a major patient satisfaction study was stopped due to a mortality increa...

Abstract This article is about the word Shawaya. Before Syrian uprising, many Syrians used term Shawaya in a derogatory manner when referring to class of people perceived as backward, uneducated and vulgar. However, during course uprising subsequent civil war, self-identification Shawi (the singular Shawaya) became more prevalent among belonging this group society. The created space for express...