service Email alerting the top right corner of the online article. T he British Ophthalmological Surveillance Unit (BOSU) has now been in existence for 5 years and has been actively involved in the surveillance of rare ophthalmological disorders for most of this time. It is now an appropriate time to consider what relevance it has to practising ophthal-mologists. The unit was set up to facilita...

Increasingly journals are using a variety of measures to benchmark the quality of their publications. Upon reflection one can source numerous statistics from reliable sources to find key indicators that showcase both the breadth and depth of relevance of a journal within a global academic and industry community of practice. We thought it especially important to present some key indicators in th...

This editorial marks the launch of a special collection of articles highlighting 'Five years of Trials' (http://www.trialsjournal.com/series/5years). The journal's achievements on its objectives since 2006 are described and some of the challenges still ahead are outlined - in particular further innovating in the reporting of trials and the publication of negative results. The other articles in ...

Introduction: Almost five years after the crash-landing of the sample return capsule of the Genesis solar wind collection mission, many of the originally defined high-priority goals [1] have been reached or prospects are very good that they will be reached within the next few years. None of the major goals had to be abandoned as a consequence of the crash. This contribution reviews some of the ...

so rarely met witH that a description of the following case is not without interest. AEuropean, aged 38, was admitted on the 4th February, 1929, with paresis of the left arm and leg. His previous history showed that he contracted syphilis in 1915, for which he was treated with a full course of murcury and galvarsan. In 1919 his Wasserman reaction was still positive and he had a further course j...