JOURNAL BUSINESS vs EDITORIAL OVERSIGHT

New medical and science journals pop up in our mailbox on a biweekly basis.  Offers to join as Editor, solicitation for articles based on past publications, invitations for subject reviews come as unsolicited emails.  Medical publication houses, old and new, are expanding, adding more and more subspecialties to their established Continue reading JOURNAL BUSINESS vs EDITORIAL OVERSIGHT

REGULATORY INTERACTIONS – 2 The “KATA” of Proper Behavior

Language-related issues come up quite frequently.  Most interactions with regulators are held in English, but not all of them.  In China, it is Mandarin, and in Japan it is, well, Japanese.  In Europe, it is mostly English, but French and German occasionally creeps into the dialogue.  In China, even if Continue reading REGULATORY INTERACTIONS – 2 The “KATA” of Proper Behavior

MUCH ADO ABOUT NOTHING: Covid-19 Vaccination for Healthy Children

Oh, what a disaster: all the ACIP members were replaced for no good reason, the best and the brightest.  Now children will die as incompetence rules supreme.  The CDC’s guidance on Covid vaccination of healthy kids is being ignored, being made light of and challenged.  We are looking at governmental Continue reading MUCH ADO ABOUT NOTHING: Covid-19 Vaccination for Healthy Children