Addition Of New Sections Research Articles

JAPhA gets new editor-in-chief

JAPhA gets new editor-in-chief

Abstract 969: Revising and updating NCI's best practices for biospecimen resources

Abstract In 2007 the NCI Office of Biorepositories and Biospecimen Research (OBBR) published the NCI Best Practices for Biospecimen Resources (http://biospecimens.cancer.gov/practices/). The Best Practices were originally published following a public comment period on the Federal Register and internal review by several National Institutes of Health offices. The Best Practices do not comprise detailed laboratory procedures and are intended to be adapted, as appropriate, based on the mission and scientific needs of individual biospecimen resources. The Best Practices were developed to address the heterogeneity and the generally unknown or uneven quality of biospecimens used for research, which can lead to unreliable and irreproducible results. In addition to these technical and operational issues, many ethical, legal and policy guidelines and concerns must be addressed when conducting research involving the use of biospecimens from patients and other research participants. The revised version of the Best Practices is intended to respond to comments received from the biospecimen resource community over the past 2 years, and provide more current and detailed recommendations related to biospecimen and data quality. Major revisions include the addition of new sections on biospecimen resource management and operations and conflicts of interest, and expansion of recommendations related to custodianship and informed consent based on the consensus findings of the 2007 NCI-hosted Workshop on Custodianship and Ownership Issues in Biospecimen Research, addition of current references throughout the document, and harmonization with current Federal guidance documents and recommendations from international biospecimen organizations. The revised Best Practices will be launched using an interactive Web format, to provide a mechanism for more frequent updates and encourage feedback from the community. The Best Practices will continue to evolve as the field of biospecimen biology advances; novel scientific, technological, and clinical practices develop; and new ethical and legal policies and regulations emerge. Results from biospecimen research initiatives will inform future versions of the Best Practices as the community moves toward the development of evidence-based standard operating procedures that are both specimen type specific and analysis platform specific. The NCI is committed to maintaining current and scientifically accurate best practices for biospecimen resources and will continue to solicit input from stakeholders in the cancer research community. Citation Format: {Authors}. {Abstract title} [abstract]. In: Proceedings of the 101st Annual Meeting of the American Association for Cancer Research; 2010 Apr 17-21; Washington, DC. Philadelphia (PA): AACR; Cancer Res 2010;70(8 Suppl):Abstract nr 969.

President's page: The AGU and its national obligation

The American Geophysical Union as a major scientific society, as well as the official body of the National Academy of Sciences representing the United States in the International Union of Geodesy and Geophysics, has a responsibility not only to its members but to the nation. In the past the discharge of this responsibility has been oriented primarily toward the advance of the geophysical sciences and the dissemination of science information. Through its special committees for the geophysical and geological study of the continents and ocean basins, the AGU was instrumental from 1935 to 1942 in launching many significant programs that have contributed to a better understanding not only of the geology and underlying crust beneath the continents and ocean basins but also of the climatology of the past, tectonic relations, the Earth's gravity field, magnetic relations, and other aspects of the Earth. The AGU has met the changing requirements of the geophysical scientific community by expanding its organizational format, through the addition of new sections, such as Tectonophysics and Planetary Sciences, and also through reorganization and expansion of its publications. Whereas in 1937 there was a single annual edition of the Transactions, the Union now publishes the Transactions as a quarterly house organ; the Journal of Geophysical Research, which appears monthly in two sections divided on the basis of space‐oriented and Earth‐oriented investigations; Reviews of Geophysics, which appears quarterly; the new quarterly Water Resources Research; a monograph and an antarctic series; and regular translations of the following Russian geophysical publications: Izvestiya, Geodesy and Aerophotography, Soviet Oceanography, Geomagnetism and Aeronomy, Soviet Hydrology, and Soviet Antarctic Expedition.

Ready Reference Handbook of Diseases of the Skin.

The present edition is considerably larger than the preceding one because of the addition of new sections on affections of the skin recently recognized. As heretofore, the symptoms, diagnosis and treatment are especially considered, and the alphabetical arrangement of the diseases, a feature which has made this work popular, is preserved. Many new prescriptions have been added to the appendix.

THE READY-REFERENCE HANDBOOK OF DISEASES OF THE SKIN

The present edition is considerably larger than the preceding one because of the addition of new sections on affections of the skin recently recognized. As heretofore, the symptoms, diagnosis and treatment are especially considered, and the alphabetical arrangement of the diseases, a feature which has made this work popular, is preserved. Many new prescriptions have been added to the appendix.