NewsBlog: When journal editors get fired Posted by Ivan Oransky [Entry posted at 23rd February 2006 03:41 PM GMT] When our news editor, Alison McCook, emailed me yesterday to tell me that the editors of the Canadian Medical Association Journal (CMAJ) had been sacked, I had a bit of d?j? vu. Just over seven years ago, I received a similar email from a colleague at JAMA, where I had recently finished a stint as co-editor in chief of the medical student section. JAMA?s editor, George Lundberg, with whom I had worked and whom I still consider a close... Click to continue Comment on this blog NewsBlog: Stem cells for heart disease? First things first Posted by Ivan Oransky [Entry posted at 22nd February 2006 05:35 PM GMT] The Keystone Symposium I?m at this week in Santa Fe is billed as being about two related subjects: the molecular mechanisms of cardiac disease and the molecular mechanisms of regeneration. And while the talks on regeneration ? that translates here roughly into stem cell therapy ? are mostly scheduled for today (Wednesday) and tomorrow, the use of stem cells to regenerate the heart is already the loud buzz at poster sessions, and is at... Click to continue View comment (1) | Comment on this blog NewsBlog: From bench to emergency room bedside Posted by Ivan Oransky [Entry posted at 21st February 2006 01:48 PM GMT] How do you move from elegantly constructed mouse knockouts like the ones presented at the Keystone Symposium on Molecular Mechanisms of Cardiac Disease and Regeneration here in Santa Fe, New Mexico, to pesky wild-type humans who often seem to court heart attacks? If you?re Elizabeth Nabel, director of the ... Click to continue Comment on this blog NewsBlog: Epigenetics and the heart Posted by Ivan Oransky [Entry posted at 20th February 2006 02:18 PM GMT] Epigenetics and chromatin remodeling, it turns out, may play a role in heart disease. In one of two keynote addresses that opened the Keystone Symposia?s meeting on Molecular Mechanisms of Cardiac Disease and Regeneration here in Santa Fe, New Mexico, Eric Olson showed why he?s received a number of awards from the American Heart Association, and why one of his earlier papers, linking calcineurin to cardiac hypertrophy, was a ... Click to continue Comment on this blog NewsBlog: The State of the Science Union Posted by Ivan Oransky [Entry posted at 1st February 2006 10:22 PM GMT] President Bush thinks that science is the key to keeping the US ahead. It will help the country wean itself off fossil fuels, he said in his fifth State of the Union last night, and it will keep the nation?s businesses competitive in the global marketplace. He wants to start with children, whom he?d like to see ?take more math and science and to make sure those courses are rigorous enough to compete with other nations.?... Click to continue Comment on this blog

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