I went to the Council of Science Editors conference in Atlanta, which was snazzily entitled “The Changing Climate of Scientific Publishing: The Heat is On.” Atlanta was indeed hot. I […]
Editors at large
Birte Twisselmann on new techologies
Day 2 of the SSP (Society for Scholarly Publishing) meeting started with what was probably the best attended session of the whole event. “Geoff and Kent redux” featured the always […]
Birte Twisselmann: Is there an app for that?
This year’s SSP (Society for Scholarly Publishing) annual meeting, “A Golden Opportunity,” started on Wednesday, 2 June 2010. The evening’s “networking reception” in the exhibition space was buzzing, creating great expectations for […]
Domhnall Macauley on Regina Benjamin, the Surgeon General of the US
One of her ambitions is to climb Kilimanjaro. It’s a tough climb even for a determined and committed woman like Regina Benjamin, Surgeon General of the United States. And, if […]
Domhnall MacAuley on tackling sedentary lifestyles
Twenty five percent of children age 2 have a television in their bedroom, as do 65% of all children. Is it any wonder that physical activity is a concern. In his […]
Wim Weber on the future of scientific publishing
On 28 and 29 May a small, but highly engaged audience appeared in Leiden for the 3rd European Conference on Scientific Publishing in Biomedicine and Medicine. The printing press made […]
Domhnall MacAuley on WONCA Part II
The picture screamed at me. It was of a ragged traveller child playing by a caravan at a halting site strewn with rubbish. It could have been from our practice. […]
Domhnall MacAuley on WONCA
“When you look in their mouth you can tell their social class.” Jan de Maeseneer used this stark example of dental caries to highlight continuing health inequality in the developing […]
Peter Lapsley: ACHCEW – bless you!
No doubt, countless pressure groups will be beavering away, bending the new government’ s ear, each with its own agenda and promoting its own interests. Few will take account of […]
Edward Davies: Dads and depression
One in 10 men suffer from “postnatal depression”, The Journal of the American Medical Association has just informed me. Postnatal depression in men often goes “undiagnosed”, and “men are as […]