Preventing Chronic Disease, CDC's online journal on public health policy, practice, and research (http://www.cdc.gov/pcd/). The Eriksen discussion focuses on whether the tobacco industry has forfeited its opportunity to participate in a traditional public-private partnership — the type that is sought by other industries — and if not, how it can partner successfully with the public health community. In the second half of his interview, Dr Eriksen considers the lessons learned from the tobacco control experience and how the public health community might work with the food and beverage industry to mitigate the obesity epidemic.Dr Michael Eriksen, former director of the Office on Smoking and Health at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) and director of the Institute of Public Health at Georgia State University, both in Atlanta, Georgia, was interviewed by Elizabeth Majestic with CDC's National Center for Chronic Disease Prevention and Health Promotion for The interview was filmed in November 2008.The tobacco industry has forfeited its opportunity to participate in traditional public-private partnerships, but does that mean that the public health community and the tobacco industry cannot work together to achieve a common objective of reducing the harm caused by tobacco use?Partnerships with the private sector should not be about money, but rather, should be considered when they support the achievement of public health objectives. The public health community also needs to hold the food and beverage industry accountable for its actions. For example, food and beverage companies should focus their efforts on both physical activity and good nutrition and they should evaluate efforts based on public health outcomes.Michael Eriksen has been director of the Institute of Public Health at Georgia State University since 2002. He received his undergraduate and graduate training at the Johns Hopkins University and has had a long and distinguished career in public health. Dr Eriksen has been employed in academia , the private sector (Pacific Telephone), state government , federal government (Centers for Disease Control and Prevention), and international organizations . He has published dozens of peer-reviewed articles on tobacco control, cancer prevention, and health promotion and is coauthor of The Tobacco Atlas with Judith Mackay. In 2004, the Georgia Cancer Coalition designated him as a Distinguished Cancer Scholar. Professor Eriksen teaches classes in the social and behavioral sciences, urban health, tobacco control, and global health. He is director of Georgia State University’s Partnership for Urban Health Research.


The third AMIA Summit on Translational Bioinformatics built on the success of the 2008 and 2009 Summits. The Summit continues to highlight the multidisciplinary nature of this rapidly maturing research field and provides the opportunity to forge new transdisciplinary collaborations as the finest minds of the academia, industry, government and non-profit sector are brought together. The six tracks spanned the range from methods for the analyses of molecular through clinical measurements and informatics methods in genetics discoveries and clinical practice.1: Informatics Methods for the Integrative Analysis of Molecular and Clinical Measurements2: Computational Approaches to Finding Molecular Mechanisms and Therapies for Disease3: Informatics Concepts, Tools, and Techniques to Enable Integrative Translational Bioinformatics Research4: Relating and Representing Phenotypes and Disease for Translational Bioinformatics Research5: Informatics Methods Bridging Genetics Discoveries and Clinical Practice6: Dissecting Disease through the Study of Organisms, Evolution, and TaxonomyThe breadth and depth of the Summit continues to grow with twenty-five 90-minute scientific sessions. Original research was presented in forty-nine papers and abstract presentations covering all six tracks and spanning from methods to applications. Ten late breaking sessions covered work in press or published since the 2009 Summit including for example a presentation of the analysis of a full human genome in the clinical context. Six of the seven National Centers for Biomedical Computing presented on the relationship of their work to the themes of the Summit along with five other panels covering topics ranging from CTSAs to the eMERGE network. Four keynote presentations addressed the theme of paths toward genomic medicine. Spyro Mousses of TGen presented on “Using BioIntelligence to Search and Understand Individual Genomes” illustrated the ideas in the context of individualized cancer therapy. Serge Saxonov of 23andMe presented on “Consumers, Genomes and Research” demonstrating how this approach could replicate findings from other studies and contribute to new genomic knowledge. Andrew Kasarskis of Sage Bionetwork presented on “Getting from Heterogeneous Data to Actionable Shared Models of Biology” and how these approaches can advance our fundamental understand of the underlying biology. Finally in what has become an annual tradition Russ Altman of Stanford presented a recap of some key developments and papers in his “Translational Bioinformatics Year in Review”.http://summit2010.amia.org/session-details.Slides from selected tutorials, papers, and panels are publicly available at BMC Bioinformatics are extended and improved versions of the best papers accepted to the 2010 Summit on Translational Bioinformatics. These papers were nominated by members of the Scientific Program Committee and the Track Chairs and then subject to revision and additional peer review in collaboration with BMC Bioinformatics. These papers illustrate the span of the Summit and range from bioinformatics approaches to new knowledge discovery to informatics approaches to foster the application of this type of knowledge. In the following paragraphs we present an overview of the papers in this special issue and their organization.The eleven papers selected for this supplement to We start with three papers that describe original informatics methods for the integrative analysis of molecular and clinical measurements. The first paper deals with representing temporal processes in biology, while the other two deal with reasoning across molecular and clinical measurements. Chang and colleagues  describeOne article focuses on computational approaches to finding molecular mechanisms and therapies for disease. More specifically, Zhang and collaborators  investigThe next two articles discuss techniques to enable integrative translational research. The paper by Morgan et al.  discuss The paper that follows is in the area of representing phenotypes and disease for translational bioinformatics research. The study by Lacson et al. assessesTwo papers focus on the important topic of informatics methods bridging genetics discoveries and clinical practice. Tatonetti and collaborators  describeFinally, the last two papers present research work in the area of dissecting disease through the study of organisms, evolution, and taxonomy. The paper by Yang et al.  focuses The authors declare that they have no competing interests.Both authors wrote and approved the manuscript. Mendonça was a member of the Scientific Program Committee for the 2010 AMIA Summit on Translational Bioinformatics and the Guest Editor for this special issue; Tarczy-Hornoch was the Chair of the Scientific Program Committee for the 2010 AMIA Summit on Translational Bioinformatics.The authors and AMIA would like to dedicate this special issue to Marco Ramoni who played a vital role in the establishment of the AMIA Summit on Translational Bioinformatics having served as Track Chair for the 2008 and 2009 Summits and having served as a member of the Scientific Program Committee for the 2010 Summit. Prior to his sudden passing on June 8, 2010 Marco was one of the leading lights of the young field of translational bioinformatics. Marco was an Associate Professor of Pediatrics and Medicine at Harvard Medical School and research faculty at Children’s Hospital, Boston and Brigham and Women’s Hospital. Most recently he was the Director, Biomedical Cybernetics Laboratory, Harvard Medical School, Director, NLM Fellowship in Biomedical Informatics, Children's Hospital Informatics Program., and Associate Director of Bioinformatics, Harvard - Partners Center for Genetics and Genomics. He was also the Director of the course “Biomedical Informatics” at the Harvard-MIT Division of Health Sciences and Technology, core faculty of the course Genomic Medicine at Harvard Medical School and a member of the curriculum committee of the Cellular and Molecular Medicine track of the Medical Physics and Medical Engineering graduate program at Harvard-MIT Division of Health Sciences and Technology. He was co-founder of Bayesware LLC, a software company developing machine-learning programs based on Bayesian methods. He received a PhD in Biomedical Engineering and a BA in Philosophy (Epistemology) from the University of Pavia  and his postdoctoral training from McGill University, Montreal (Canada). He held academic and visiting positions at the University of Massachusetts, the University of London (United Kingdom), the Knowledge Media Institute (United Kingdom), and the University of Geneva (Switzerland). He is author of well over 100 publications in genetics, biomedical informatics, statistics and artificial intelligence.


Twenty-six cases of Kaposi's sarcoma (KS) were recorded by the New South Wales Central Cancer Registry between 1972 and 1982, prior to the first AIDS diagnoses in Australia. The overall annual incidence was 0.47 per million. Incidence was three times higher in males. The highest incidence was in people born in the Middle East and in males born in southern and eastern Europe.


In early 1999, more than 160 senior physicians, public health officials, and nurses met to discuss London's tuberculosis (TB) control program. The program was examined against the public health response of New York City's Bureau of Tuberculosis Control during a 1988 to 1992 epidemic. This article outlines TB epidemiology and control in New York City 10 years ago and in London today to assess whether the kind of epidemic that occurred in New York could occur in London.


This is the second time I have come to England to the MRC Prion Unit. I have been working for the Kuru Research Project in the Papua New Guinea Institute of Medical Research for 6 years. Now, I am the Community Liaison Officer. I am also the community leader of Waisa Village. In our kuru studies, I work closely with Jerome Whitfield and Michael Alpers.In the early 1960s, when I first saw Michael Alpers in Waisa, I was 7 years old. Michael has always been a good friend of our family. The kuru research work went ahead successfully. Later Michael became the Director of the Papua New Guinea Institute of Medical Research. The Institute studies all the sicknesses of Papua New Guinea and we are pleased to have Prof. Peter Siba now as its Director.My late father Mr Puwa helped Michael with his work and supported him personally. He assisted with the examination of patients and the collection of samples from patients and others. He explained to the family and community why these samples of blood, brain and the like were needed. Working together, my father and Michael made a film on traditional salt making, a skill and technology that has now died out, since my father was the acknowledged salt maker of the village.Although most people still believe that kuru is caused by sorcery, there are a few of us who understand how it came to our people. I am very happy about all the research work for the last 50 years that has given us this understanding.


An automatic system for the determination of Zn, Cd, Pb and Cu by anodic stripping potentiometry using the oxygen dissolved in the sample as oxidant is reported. The system relies on the use of a PC-compatible computer for instrumental control and data acquisition and processing.


Trends in eye cancer mortality are presented for the USA and England and Wales during the period 1955-89. Mortality rates have fallen by 58% in the USA during this period. The fall in mortality is paralleled by an equal fall in incidence rates in the USA. In England and Wales, mortality rates and incidence rates have remained relatively constant during the last three decades. The explanation for these differences between the USA and England and Wales is unknown.


EHP was fortunate to have Steve Kleeberger and Matt Longnecker step up to serve with me as interim deputy editors in the absence of a full-time permanent editor. Steve and Matt have given generously of their time, expertise, and energy in helping to maintain EHP ’s scientific quality during a time of transition. Given EHP’s broad scope of coverage, however, we felt the need to likewise broaden the scope of our science editorial expertise. Thus, we are pleased to welcome aboard two additional interim deputy editors.In January 2007, Toxicology and Applied Pharmacology since 2000 and serves on the editorial boards of Toxicology, the Journal of Toxicology and Environmental Health, and Toxicology Mechanisms and Methods.Michael P. Waalkes is a senior research toxicologist with the National Cancer Institute, where he serves as chief of the Inorganic Carcinogenesis Section, which is part of the Laboratory of Comparative Carcinogenesis stationed at the NIEHS campus in Research Triangle Park, North Carolina. Mike received his PhD in pharmacology and toxicology from West Virginia University. His postdoctoral studies at the University of Kansas School of Medicine focused on the cellular and molecular mechanisms of acquired tolerance to metal toxicity. His current research involves defining the mechanisms of action of the carcinogenic inorganics, including arsenic, lead, and cadmium. Mike is currently an adjunct professor of molecular toxicology at Duke University and an active member of the Society of Toxicology. He has been the editor of Epidemiology and has served on the editorial board of the American Journal of Epidemiology.Stephanie London is a senior investigator in the NIEHS Epidemiology Branch with a joint appointment in the Laboratory of Respiratory Biology. She received her MD and her DrPH degree in epidemiology from Harvard University. She completed a residency in internal medicine at the Massachusetts General Hospital and a residency in occupational and environmental medicine at Harvard, and is board certified in both fields. Stephanie was an assistant professor at the University of Southern California School of Medicine from 1989 through 1995, where she was part of a small team of investigators who founded a landmark study of health effects of air pollution in schoolchildren known as the Children’s Health Study. She came to the NIEHS in 1995. Her work focuses on genetics and interactions between genetics, diet, and environmental pollutants in relation to asthma and chronic obstructive pulmonary disease. Stephanie is an editor for Journal of Exposure Science and Environmental Epidemiology, and is chair of the Environment and Reproduction Special Interest Group of the American Society for Reproductive Medicine.I would also like to take this opportunity to introduce our new medical editor, Russ Hauser, who succeeds Brian S. Schwartz. Russ is an associate professor of environmental and occupational epidemiology in the departments of Environmental Health and Epidemiology at the Harvard School of Public Health. He graduated from Clark University and the Albert Einstein College of Medicine, where he received his MD. He received his MPH and ScD from the Harvard School of Public Health, where he completed a residency in occupational medicine. He is board certified in occupational medicine. From 2000 to 2004, he served as deputy director of the Occupational and Environmental Medicine Residency, National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health Education and Research Center. Russ’s research focuses on the effects of environmental and occupational chemicals on fertility and pregnancy outcomes. He is on the editorial board of the EHP ’s Grand Rounds and Environmental Medicine submissions, allowing the journal to advance in its mission of delineating relationships between the environment and human health. We are most grateful for his service to the journal.Finally, we bid a fond farewell to Brian, our outgoing medical editor. Brian served in this role from July 2004 through July 2007. During this time he significantly raised the bar for EHP. As always, we welcome your feedback.Stay tuned for news of a permanent editor-in-chief for


Although we have excellent sources of information at the national level in the National Health Interview Survey and the National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey, and at the state and county levels in the Behavioral Risk Factor Surveillance System, each source has inherent limitations. More serious, however, are the issues raised by the 2002 report from the National Committee on Vital and Health Statistics (NCVHS) . That reThe Community Health Status Indicators (CHSI) project  is a sigCommunity indicators. The National Academy of Sciences and other organizations are involved in developing a set of key national indicators for the United States. These indicators would include health as one of their dimensions. Although this project is national, similar efforts are under way in U.S. communities, literally from coast to coast . The rapid growth of indicators or measures that inform the public and professionals alike in an easily accessible form is encouraging.Electronic health records. The use of electronic health records received a major boost from President George W. Bush and Secretary of Health and Human Services Michael Leavitt with establishment of the Office of the National Coordinator for Health Information Technology. Public health information is one of the foci of this organization and others, including the American Health Information Community (AHIC), a federally chartered advisory committee on the use and adoption of electronic health records. To assess the potential impact of electronic health records on health statistics and on public health decision making, the office of the Assistant Secretary for Health and the National Center for Health Statistics sponsored a workshop, and the report is available online (www.cdc.gov/nchs/data/nhcs/EMRworkshopsummaryjuly30.pdf).Healthy People program, now in its third decade. Although the Healthy People focus is national, it places a strong emphasis on developing data for local use. A recent paper shows that this goal is indeed feasible with a strong research base (Healthy People. Perhaps the leading force in developing new data sources and emphasizing the importance of standardization in definitions and methods is the Health and Human Services rch base . Although these developments herald progress, critical gaps remain in our knowledge and data. As the nation grows more diverse in race, ethnicity, and various other factors, the need for adequate data to address health problems will multiply with each distinct population group. Furthermore, our definition of health must be broadened so that functioning is included as a part of our health assessment.Unfortunately, the current supporting resource base needs to be strengthened. CDC Director Julie Gerberding noted in CDC's Professional Judgment Budget Request that "CDC's mission-critical health statistics and similar data systems are currently on life support. Investments have simply not kept pace with expenses and technological advances." As we work to achieve the promise of new sources and new tools, we also need to ensure that we do not damage the critical national data infrastructure. Our investments in standards development must be balanced with investments in tools, training, analysis, and research. Despite these constraints on resources, we continue to make progress in collecting and disseminating information crucial for public health decisions. The year 2007 marked the 50th anniversary of the National Health Interview Survey, an appropriate time to stress the gains we have made in health data and a commitment to working toward a future of relevant and high-quality information at every level of health decision making.


Felix D. Battistella, Professor and Chief of Trauma and Emergency Surgery at UC Davis Medical Center, died from cancer on January 22 at his home. He was 48.Dr. Battistella's unselfish dedication to his field, his colleagues and to the UC Davis Health System community was widely known." said Claire Pomeroy, Vice Chancellor for Human Health Sciences and Dean of the UC Davis School of Medicine. "The many contributions he made have forever shaped the way we provide compassionate care for patients in their hour of need.""magna cum laude. He received his medical degree from the UC Davis School of Medicine in 1985. For his postgraduate training, Battistella continued his association with UC Davis, completing an internship in the Department of Surgery in 1986, and finishing his residency in the department in 1990. He served as Chief Resident in the department from 1990 to 1991.Battistella figure  was bornBattistella joined the Faculty of the Department of Surgery as an Assistant Professor in 1991. In addition to serving as Professor and Chief of Trauma and Emergency Surgery, Battistella was the Director of the department's residency program. He also served as the Chief of Staff from 2004 to 2006.In 1991, the senior class at the School of Medicine selected Battistella for its Outstanding Resident Teaching Award. That same year, he was voted Outstanding Chief Resident by his fellow residents in the Department of Surgery. In 1997, the Friends of Nursing at UC Davis Medical Center chose Battistella as its Physician of the Year.Dr. Battistella will be remembered most by any nurse who worked with him as the kindest, most compassionate surgeon. He was a highly skilled surgeon, but what set him apart was that he treated every one of his patients with compassion and caring. All of our nursing staff greatly admired Dr. Battistella."Carol Robinson, Senior Associate Director, Patient Care Services Administration, said, "Dr. Battistella was a great teacher. In working with him and watching him with residents and students, you could see that he had a passion for teaching and mentoring. He also truly cared about the well-being of his patients."Cheryl Wraa, Manager of the UC Davis Trauma Program, said, "Battistella is survived by his wife, Christine; daughters Claire and Mary; his mother, Amalia; and his sister, Nedra.World Journal of Emergency Surgery lost a great Editor and all emergency surgery science lost a great contributor.We think that


A Funding Statement was incorrectly omitted from the article. The Funding Statement is: "This work was supported by grant No. MH-3-7224 from the Chief Scientist’s office of the Ministry of Health, Israel to AA and by Grant No. 2009179 from the United States-Israel Bi-national Science Foundation (BSF) to TH and AA. We are also thankful for the support from the Jees & Midred Fisher Family’s Cardiology Research Fund. The funders had no role in study design, data collection and analysis, decision to publish, or preparation of the manuscript."


There are errors in the Funding statement. The correct Funding statement is as follows: Researcher Marcus Sheaves was supported by the Marine Biodiversity Hub through funding from the Australian Government's National Environmental Science Program. The funders had no role in study design, data collection and analysis, decision to publish, or preparation of the manuscript.


In the Model for analyzing individual events subsection of the Methods, there are errors in third and fourth equation of Model (2). Please view the complete, correct equations here:The publisher apologizes for the error.


The Funding section for this paper is incorrect. The publisher apologizes for the error. The correct funding information is as follows: This work was supported by the Grant for Specially Promoted Research from Kanazawa Medical University , the Japanese Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology (MEXT)-Supported. Program for the Strategic Research Foundation at Private Universities , and the 4th Community Medicine Promotion Grant of the Sugiura Memorial Foundation (Dr. Yukihisa Matsuda). The funders had no role in study design, data collection and analysis, decision to publish, or preparation of the manuscript.


The authors of “Using Behavioral Intervention Technologies to Help Low-Income and Latino Smokers Quit: Protocol of a Randomized Controlled Trial” :e127) would like to change the Acknowledgements section of their paper to the following: “This project was partially supported by funds provided by The Regents of the University of California, Tobacco-Related Diseases Research Program, Grant Number No. 24RT-0027. The opinions, findings, and conclusions herein are those of the authors and not necessarily represent those of The Regents of the University of California, or any of its programs. Programming and development of the web app for this project is being carried out by the Center for Behavioral Intervention Technologies at Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine.”The originally published acknowledgement has only the first sentence. This correction has been made in the online version of the paper on the JMIR Research Protocols website on September 23, 2016, together with publishing this corrigendum.A correction notice has been sent to PubMed, and the publication was resubmitted to Pubmed Central and other full-text repositories.


The following information is missing from the Funding section: The National Institute of Health, R01 MH079406 (RES) and New Jersey Health Foundation (RES). The funders had no role in study design, data collection and analysis, decision to publish, or preparation of the manuscript.The publisher apologizes for the error.


In the original article, we neglected to include the funder Research Grants Council of Hong Kong, General Research Fund (GRF/HKU/17609417), to Temmy Lee Ting Lo and Rainbow Tin Hung Ho.Due to this omission, the following Funding statement will be added to the original article:This work was supported by the General Research Fund, Research Grants Council of Hong Kong .The authors apologize for this error and state that this does not change the scientific conclusions of the article in any way. The original article has been updated.


The authors of “How Online Communities of People With Long-Term Conditions Function and Evolve: Network Analysis of the Structure and Dynamics of the Asthma UK and British Lung Foundation Online Communities” :e238) wish to add the following sentence to the Acknowledgments:The correction will appear in the online version of the paper on the JMIR website on September 4, 2018, together with the publication of this correction notice. Because this was made after submission to PubMed, Pubmed Central, and other full-text repositories, the corrected article also has been re-submitted to those repositories.


Scientific Reports 10.1038/s41598-018-21140-3, published online 09 February 2018Correction to: In the original version of this Article, Kuan-Yi Wu and Ing-Tsung Hsiao were incorrectly listed as equally contributing authors.In addition, the Acknowledgements section in this Article was incomplete.“We thank Avid Radiopharmaceuticals Inc.  for providing the precursor for the preparation of 18F-florbetapir. This study was carried out with financial support from the National Science Council and the Ministry of Science and Technology, Taiwan , in addition to grants from the Research Fund of Chang Gung Memorial Hospital  and the Center for Advanced Molecular Imaging and Translation.”now reads:“We thank Avid Radiopharmaceuticals Inc.  for providing the precursor for the preparation of 18F-florbetapir. This study was carried out with financial support from the National Science Council and the Ministry of Science and Technology, Taiwan , in addition to grants from the Research Fund of Chang Gung Memorial Hospital  and the Center for Advanced Molecular Imaging and Translation. This study was also supported by the Ministry of Health and Welfare, Taiwan .”These errors have now been corrected in the PDF and HTML versions of the paper, and in the accompanying Electronic Supplementary Material.


The following information is missing from the Funding statement: This article was funded by the Qatar National Library. The funder had no role in study design, data collection and analysis, decision to publish, or preparation of the manuscript.


Following publication of the original article , the autThe acknowledgments currently read:We would like to thank the Simmons Center for Cancer Research for the financial support, Dr. Juan Arroyo (BYU) for his assistance in tissue staining and confocal microscopy, Dr. Himelda Chavez , for her pathology expertise and help in IHC analysis, and a team of surgeons at Utah Valley Regional Medical Center for providing normal and malignant colon tissue.The corrected acknowledgements would read:http://cancergenome.nih.gov).We would like to thank the Simmons Center for Cancer Research for the financial support, Dr. Juan Arroyo (BYU) for his assistance in tissue staining and confocal microscopy, Dr. Himelda Chavez , for her pathology expertise and help in IHC analysis, and a team of surgeons at Utah Valley Regional Medical Center for providing normal and malignant colon tissue. Results from this study are in part based upon data generated by The Cancer Genome Atlas and managed by the United States National Cancer Institute and National Human Genome Research Institute (see


In the original publication, the funding information was incorrectly published. The correct funding information is provided in this correction.This work is supported by grants from the Projects of International Cooperation and Exchanges Ministry of Science and Technology of China (2013DFG32390) and the National Natural Science Foundation of China (31472059) to X.S. X.S is a recipient of the Young Thousand Talents program (KJ2070000026).


Hadley Weiss is not included in the author byline. Hadley Weiss should be listed as the 25th author and affiliated with LS50: Integrated Science Freshman Class, Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States of America. The contributions of this author are as follows: Investigation and Writing–Review & Editing.The publisher apologizes for the error.


The funders had no role in study design, data collection and analysis, decision to publish, or preparation of the manuscript.There is an error in the Funding statement. The publisher apologizes for the error. The correct Funding statement is: This research was supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China (URL:


There is an error in the Funding statement. The correct Funding statement is as follows: This research was supported by grants from the Korea Health Technology R&D Project through the Korea Health Industry Development Institute (KHIDI) funded by the Ministry of Health & Welfare, Republic of Korea . The funder had no role in study design, data collection and analysis, decision to publish, or preparation of the manuscript.


Sudre, and Sebastien Ourselin. These authors’ affiliations are now correctly noted as School of Biomedical Engineering & Imaging Sciences, King’s College London, London, UK. Additionally, a statement from the Acknowledgments section was omitted. The Acknowledgments have been updated to include the following: “We are grateful to the MS Society for its support of the Multiple Sclerosis Research Centre at the Queen Square Institute of Neurology where this work was completed.” The HTML and PDF versions of the Article have been corrected.


Polymers,Dear readers of Polymers Young Investigator Award to:Finally, after an extensive voting period, we are proud to present the first winner of the Polymers Investigator Award from 38 candidates who were proposed by at least two colleagues in their field of expertise. Fifteen of the candidates are working in the United States, 13 in Europe and 10 at universities in Asian countries. The proposed candidates represented a diverse range of fields in polymer science. Dr. Campos received his Ph.D. with Professor Miguel A. Garcia-Garibay and Professor Kendall N. Houk at University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) in 2016 and did his postdoc training at the University of California, Santa Barbara (UCSB) under the supervision of Craig J. Hawker. At the age of 37, Dr. Campos has already achieved an extraordinary standing in the polymers community. His excellent work focuses on the design and application of polymeric materials, for example, solar cells and organic light emitting diodes; all topics of high societal and economic impact. His research has been featured in highly ranked journals such as the Nature family, Angewandte Chemie, and Journal of the American Chemical Society (JACS), to name a few. To date, he has co-authored over 60 articles and has received numerous awards, including the American Chemical Society (ACS) Arthur C. Cope Scholar Award, The Office of Naval Research (ONR) Young Investigator Award, The National Science Foundation (NSF) CAREER Award, 3M Non-Tenured Faculty Award, Cottrell Scholar Award, The Inter-American Photochemical Society (I-APS) Young Faculty Award, the Journal of Physical Organic Chemistry Award for Early Excellence. This finally led to invitations to numerous prominent lectures all over the world. Moreover, his work constitutes not only high level basic research, but has proven to be highly relevant in industry which is reflected in 10 patents filed by him and his coworkers.who is an assistant professor at the Chemistry Department of Columbia University, USA. He was selected by the evaluation committee of Polymers conference.In addition to the cash prize and plaque, Dr. Campos will be an invited speaker at the 2018 Polymers Editorial office staff and editorial board members, I wish to congratulate Dr. Campos on his excellent performance and wish him all the best for his future career.On behalf of the


There are errors in the Funding section. The correct funding information is as follows: This study is part of the research project “Resistance Training in Youth Athletes” that was funded by the German Federal Institute of Sport Science (ZMVI1-08190114-18). In addition, we acknowledge the support of the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG) and Open Access Publishing Fund of University of Potsdam, Germany. The funders had no role in study design, data collection and analysis, decision to publish, or preparation of the manuscript.


The following information is missing from the Competing Interests statement: WHO-IARC: Where authors are identified as personnel of the International Agency for Research on Cancer / World Health Organization, the authors alone are responsible for the views expressed in this article and they do not necessarily represent the decisions, policy or views of the International Agency for Research on Cancer / World Health Organization.Norwegian Immunization Registry SYSVAK  provided data, but is not responsible for the analyses and interpretation in this article.The publisher apologizes for the error.


The funders had no role in study design, data collection and analysis, decision to publish, or preparation of the manuscript.There are errors in the Funding section. The correct funding information is as follows: This work was supported by a grant of the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft to DJ (DFG Je 152/17-1) and Vikas Sharma is a recipient of a research fellowship from the Ministry of Human Resource Development (MHRD), India (


S2 Text in the original article to disclose the role of the funder Illumina in this study, the financial disclosure was not updated to reflect the same information. The Funding should read:Following the inclusion of S2 Text. The other funders had no role in study design, data collection and analysis, decision to publish, or preparation of the manuscript.REC, CMD, TCR, and AM had funding from the Department for International Development from the United Kingdom award (204074–101) and Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade Australian Government award (70957). TCR had funding from National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (grant number: R21AI135756). MS was supported from the National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute at the National Institutes of Health (grant number: T32HL134632). Illumina supplied early-access iSeq100 sequencing reagents; some experiments were conducted at Illumina by Illumina employees; the role of the funder Illumina is further described in


This article has been retracted: From the The First Hospital of China Medical University Professor Committee, in response to the Journal’s request:The First Hospital of China Medical University Professor Committee convened the 14th plenary meeting to investigate Yu-Ji Li’s paper published in Oncotarget , in response to the Journal’s editorial board’s request. A thorough investigation and open discussion was held in the meeting that included all department members in charge of scientific affairs.At the meeting, Dr. Yu-Ji Li reported all events in the production of his paper. He admitted the problems in the publication that were identified by the Journal and acknowledged that he was responsible for the incidents. The chairman of Dr. Li’s department also detailed on the incidents and pointed out the loopholes in the paper. Inquiries were made and documents were carefully checked by the Committee members. The Professor Committee agreed that Yu-Ji Li was negligent in his research attitude and was unable to offer complete original materials. After the discussion, the decision was made as the following:1) Due to repeated and manipulated use of figures that misled the scientific conclusion, we ask for retraction of the paper by Dr. Yu-Ji Li from the Journal. (Dr. Li himself previously attempted to retract but his plea was unclear in expression).2) Apologies must be issued to the Journal and its readerships for the authors’ negligence and lack of rigorous academic integrity.3) The University will take strict measures against the misconduct by the authors of the paper according to relevant institutional regulations.https://doi.org/10.18632/oncotarget.8289Original article: Oncotarget. 2016; 7:31993-32005.


In the original article, there was an error in the funding section.Funding section and now states:A correction has been made to the “This work was funded by the EPFL Blue Brain Project Fund and the ETH Board Funding to the Blue Brain Project. The work has been performed as an in-kind contribution to the European Union Seventh Framework Programme (FP7/2007-2013) under grant agreement no. 604102 (Human Brain Project) and the European Union's Horizon 2020 Framework Programme for Research and Innovation under Grant Agreement No. 720270 (Human Brain Project SGA1).”The authors apologize for this error and state that this does not change the scientific conclusions of the article in any way. The original article has been updated.


The author Mabel Kwong was inadvertently omitted from the list of authors during the production stage of the paper "Internet Protocol Television for Personalized Home-Based Health Information: Design-Based Research on a Diabetes Education System" :e13). The author Mabel Kwong  should have been added after Ken Clarke in the original published manuscript. This error has been corrected in the online version of the paper on the JMIR Research Protocols website on March 18, 2014, together with publishing this correction notice. This was done before submission to Pubmed Central and other full-text repositories.


Qualifying researchers may apply to access the data by contacting Office of Statewide Health Planning and Development (OSHPD) of California, Information Services Division (dataandreports@oshpd.ca.gov).The Data Availability statement for this paper is incorrect. The correct statement is: There are ethical and legal restrictions on sharing the data set due to patient privacy. Therefore, legal restrictions related to agreements made with the Office of Statewide Health Planning and Development (OSHPD) of California (


There are errors in the Funding statement. The publisher apologizes for the errors. The correct Funding statement is as follows: This study was supported by the Fundamental Research Funds for the Central Universities of Central South University (1053320182836). The funder had no role in study design, data collection and analysis, decision to publish, or preparation of the manuscript.


The following information is missing from the Funding section: This article was funded by the Qatar National Library. The funder had no role in study design, data collection and analysis, decision to publish, or preparation of the manuscript.


In the original article, we neglected to include the funder “National Natural Science Foundation of China, 71872102.” The updated funding statement is mentioned below:This research was supported by National Natural Science Foundation of China (No. 71872102).The authors apologize for this error and state that this does not change the scientific conclusions of the article in any way. The original article has been updated.


There is an error in the Funding statement. The correct number for the Foundation for Science and Technology  I&D 472 is (UID/DTP/00447/2019). The authors apologize for this error and state that this does not change the scientific conclusions of the article in any way. The original article has been updated.


In the original article, we incorrectly used the university internal grant code which should be replaced by the Chinese Medicine Research Fund in University of Oxford. The authors apologize for this error and state that this does not change the scientific conclusions of the article in any way. The original article has been updated.The funding statement should read:This work was supported by the Chinese Medicine Research Fund in University of Oxford. The grant was sponsored by Shaanxi Momentum Pharmaceutical Co., Ltd.Shaanxi Momentum Pharmaceutical Co., Ltd. had no involvement in the study design, data collection and analysis, decision to publish, or preparation of the manuscript. All authors declare no conflict of interest.


The following information is missing from the Funding statement: Publication of this article was funded in part by the Kansas State University Open Access Publishing Fund.In the Methods section, there is a typographical error in equation 3. Please view the complete, correct equation here:


The following information is missing from the Funding section: This work was partly funded by the Marine Biodiversity Hub, a collaborative partnership supported through funding from the Australian Government's National Environmental Science Programme. The funding body was not involved in the process of study design, data collection and analysis, decision to publish, or preparation of the manuscript.There is an error in the Acknowledgments section. The name "Ashley Leeman" is spelled incorrectly. The correct spelling is: Ashley Leedman.


The authors of the published article “Internet Search and Krokodil in the Russian Federation: An Infoveillance Study”  wish to add additional information to the “Acknowledgments” section, so it now reads as follows:The work of Peter Meylakhs was funded by the Basic Research Program of the National Research University Higher School of Economics, Russia. The authors would also like to thank Ms Svetlana Chernova in Ukraine for her assistance with data collection and coding, Associate Professor James Gillespie at the Menzies Centre for Health Policy, University of Sydney for his advice and support, and Ms Anya Sarang from the Andrey Rylkov Foundation in Moscow for facilitating contacts within Russia.The first sentence was unintentionally omitted in the original submission. The publication on the JMIR site was amended accordingly, and a new version was submitted to PubMed Central.


On September 25 2017, Jay A. Siegel, PhD died at his home in Mt. Arlington, New Jersey at the age of 71. At the time of his death due to heart failure, Dr Siegel was highly regarded internationally as a forensic chemist, educator and prominent advocate for quality in the forensic sciences. Jay was born in Washington, DC, USA on April 16 1946. He received a PhD degree in chemistry from The George Washington University in Washington, DC, USA in 1975. Early in his career, Jay developed strong interest in the forensic applications of chemistry. Following employment as a forensic chemist with the Virginia Bureau of Forensic Sciences, Jay launched decades of professional activity as an educator and research scientist with Metropolitan State College in Denver, Colorado, Michigan State University in East Lansing, Michigan and Indiana University-Purdue University in Indianapolis, IN, USA. His university experience included serving as department chair but primarily focused on educating many undergraduate and graduate students who have in their own subsequent careers made many contributions to forensic science. His international recognition included visiting professor roles at universities in Australia and China.Journal of Forensic Sciences from 1983 to 2008 and the Forensic Sciences Research from 2016 to 2017 and as a commissioner for the Forensic Science Education Programs Accreditation Commission (FEPAC) for six years beginning in 2003.Jay received many prestigious honours and awards during his long career. These include the Paul L. Kirk Award in 1975 from the Criminalistics Section of the American Academy of Forensic Sciences (AAFS). Jay was named Distinguished Fellow by the AAFS in 2009. Also in 2009, he received the Distinguished Alumni Award from The George Washington University and in 2012 the Distinguished Service Award from the Midwest Association of Forensic Scientists. Jay served on the editorial boards of the Throughout his career, Jay was a strong advocate for quality and scientific rigour in the practice of forensic science. He was selected to serve on the National Research Council Committee that led to the 2009 publication of the influential “Strengthening Forensic Science in the United States: A Path Forward.” Jay authored books and numerous publications in relevant scientific journals within his interests in forensic chemistry and the forensic sciences in general. He was an editor (with Pekka J. Saukko) for the Encyclopedia of Forensic Sciences published in 2012 by Academic Press.Journal of Forensic Sciences. During this time, I recall many conversations with Jay concerning the quality of publications in the forensic sciences, especially relating to his own specialty of forensic chemistry. In my additional role as Chair of the Forensic Science in Focus Book Series for AAFS, I called Jay, challenging him to organize a quality, edited book on forensic chemistry to be published in the series that would address many of the shortcomings we had discussed previously. Jay accepted this challenge and responded with a carefully edited manuscript with contributions from many of his colleagues. The volume “Forensic Chemistry: Fundamentals and Applications” was published by Wiley-Blackwell in 2015.Over the years, I enjoyed many discussions with Jay regarding issues within the forensic sciences and developments relating to AAFS. He could always be counted upon for strong, thoughtful positions on topics of mutual interest. From 2008 to 2016, I served as the Book Review Editor for the In my view, Jay Siegel represents an ideal role model for all of us in the forensic sciences. His work demonstrated how academia and forensic practice are not mutually exclusive. Like Jay, we should all strive for the highest quality in forensic science possible and embrace the challenges of constructive criticism and the advances of new research.


In the Funding section, the grant number from the National Science Foundation, China is listed incorrectly. The correct grant number is: 71801089.


The Maxwell A. Pollack Award for Productive Aging recognizes instances of practice informed by research and analysis, research that directly improved policy or practice, and distinction in bridging the worlds of research and practice. The award lecture will be presented by the 2018 recipient, Karen Fredriksen-Goldsen, PhD, University of Washington. This award is generously funded by The New York Community Trust.


In the original article, we neglected to include the funders. HA-K acknowledges the Higher Education Committee for Education and Development (HCED), Office of Prime Minister, Iraq for financial support. AA and HA acknowledge the Royal Embassy of Saudi Arabia – Cultural Bureau (UK) for financial support. RE-G acknowledges WELMEC, a Centre of Excellence in Medical Engineering funded by the Wellcome Trust and EPSRC, under grant number WT 088908/Z/09/Z for financial support.The authors apologize for this error and state that this does not change the scientific conclusions of the article in any way.The original article has been updated.The authors declare that the research was conducted in the absence of any commercial or financial relationships that could be construed as a potential conflict of interest.


The heights by great men reached and kept were not attained by sudden flight, but they, while their companions slept, were toiling upward in the night. (Henry Wadsworth Longfellow)Prof. Samuel Fehrsen see  and 2 waHe was the first head of the Department of Family Medicine at the former Medical University of Southern Africa – MEDUNSA  from 1977 to 1996, spanning a period of 20 years. During his tenure at MEDUNSA, Prof. Sam Fehrsen established a family medicine department that trained and produced many family physicians in South Africa, Southern Africa and Central Africa. In 1995, through his visionary leadership, in collaboration with the Evangelical Church of the Congo (ECC), the very first and only Family Medicine postgraduate training programme in the Democratic Republic of the Congo was established. Some of our collaborators from the Democratice Republic of the Congo (DRC) include Prof. Leon Kintaudi and Dr Philippe Lukanu – both based at the Protestant University of the Congo (UPC). The DRC programme has matured to the extent that the department continues to support the local training of family medicine registrars through the establishment of a Memorandum of Understanding with the UPC in 2011.In addition, he played a pivotal role in the establishment of the first Family Medicine programme in Kenya at the Moi University, Eldoret. Most of the first cohort of family physicians who graduated from that university are now heads of departments (HODs) (Family Medicine) in at least three universities in Kenya. In southern Africa, close to 200 family physicians from Swaziland, Namibia, Lesotho, Zambia and Botswana trained under his leadership through the vocational Family Medicine postgraduate programme at MEDUNSA. A number of family physicians have further emigrated to Canada, Australia and New Zealand. The current HOD of Family Medicine at the University of Namibia (Dr Felicia Christians) is an alumnus of University of Cape Town.SA Family Practice Journal as well as a role model, mentor and friend to many. Late Prof. Sam Fehrsen has left footprints on the sands of time that we will never forget. In his quiet way, he succeeded in establishing and spreading the specialty of Family Medicine in South Africa, southern Africa and Africa. May his gentle soul rest in peace!In South Africa, the Family Medicine programme that the late Prof. Sam Fehrsen ran for 20 years produced many prominent family physicians. The current HODs of Family Medicine at Walter Sisulu University (WSU), University of KwaZulu-Natal (UKZN), University of Limpopo (UL), University of the Witwatersrand (Wits) and my humble self  are all his mentees and products. He was awarded an honorary degree – Doctor of Medicine (MD) – by the WSU in 2009 for his tremendous contributions to rural health services and training in the former Transkei. What an achievement for someone who was always soft-spoken, affirmative, disciplinarian and a missionary at heart. His command of the isiXhosa language amazed us all the time from his earlier medical professional life at Mt Ayliff Hospital, Eastern Cape. He was a pioneer of the South African Academy of Family Practitioners that later transformed to the South African Academy of Family Physicians, a past president of the Academy, past editor of the


In “Predictors of Patients’ Loyalty Toward Doctors on Web-Based Health Communities: Cross-Sectional Study” by Wu et al :e14484), a minor error in the typesetting stage of publication resulted in the Acknowledgments section not being included in the final version of the article.The Acknowledgments section has been added to the paper and appears as follows:This work was partially supported by grants from the National Natural Science Foundation of China .The correction will appear in the online version of the paper on the JMIR website on November 7, 2019, together with the publication of this correction notice. Because this was made after submission to PubMed, PubMed Central, and other full-text repositories, the corrected article has also been resubmitted to those repositories.


The author wishes to make the following corrections to this paper . Due to with:Moreover, in the published article , the autFunding: This research was funded by the Faculty of Biotechnology and Food Science, Wrocław University of Environmental and Life Sciences, grant number B030/0003/1 and under the program of the Minister of Science and Higher Education “Strategy of Excellence University of Research” in 2018–2019 project number 0019/SDU/2018/18 in the amount of PLN 700 000.The authors would like to apologize for any inconvenience caused to the readers by the change. The change does not affect the scientific results. The manuscript will be updated, and the original will remain online on the article webpage, with a reference to this Correction.


The original version of this article unfortunately contained a mistake. Information was missing in the acknowledgements section. The correct information is given below.Acknowledgements We thank the Mountain Rescue South Tyrol (Bergrettungsdienst im Alpenverein Südtirol) for putting their indoor climbing facility at our disposal. Furthermore, we thank the companies Mindray Bio-Medical Electronics Co., Ltd., Masimo Corporation, Akern and Salewa for lending the equipment. We would like to acknowledge the support of Prof. Luciano Bernardi in interpreting the data on baroreflex sensitivity. The authors thank the Department of Innovation, Research and University of the Autonomous Province of Bozen/Bolzano for covering the Open Access publication costs.


The affiliation for the second author is incorrect; the correct affiliation is not indicated. Liam Bailey is not affiliated with #2, but with: Department of Evolutionary Genetics, Leibniz Institute for Zoo and Wildlife Research, Berlin, Germany.


The M. Powell Lawton Award is presented annually to an individual who has made outstanding contributions from applied research that has benefited older people and their care. The lecture will be given by the 2018 recipient, Carol Whitlatch, PhD, Benjamin Rose Institute on Aging. The session will also include the presentation of the 2019 Lawton Award. The 2019 Lawton Award recipient is Barbara Resnick, PhD, CRNP, FGSA, of the University of Maryland. Supported by the Polisher Research Institute of the Madlyn and Leonard Abramson Center for Jewish Life.


Perl” was not included as an author in the published article and has now been added. All authors listed have made a substantial, direct and intellectual contribution to the work, and approved it for publication.Acknowledgments section:Additionally, due to the addition of the author Scott M. Perl, a correction has been made to the “A portion of this research took place at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory, California Institute of Technology, under a contract with the National Aeronautics and Space Administration. General ideas presented here developed out of various NASA and NSF grants to the authors, along with partial support from the NASA Astrobiology Institute (project: Rock Powered Life) to JS, NSF Coupled Natural Human Systems (Award #1617473) to BB, and NSF National Robotics Initiative (Award #IIS-1526667) for DT. We thank the reviewers for input that improved this manuscript.”The authors apologize for this error and state that this does not change the scientific conclusions of the article in any way. The original article has been updated.


Addendum to: npj Schizophrenia 10.1038/npjschz.2015.16, Published online 6 May 2015In the original published version of the manuscript, no data availability statement was included. This addendum has been added to include the following data availability statement “Data obtained from the patients in the Taiwan cohort were used with agreement from National Taiwan University Hospital. Data acquisition was funded by grant NSC99-3112-B-002-030 and was collected at National Taiwan University Hospital around 2010. Data obtained from the patients in the Huaxi cohort were used with agreement from Sichuan University. Data acquisition was funded by National Nature Science Foundation of China (81130024), National Key Technology R & D Program of the Ministry of Science and Technology of China during the 12th Five-Year Plan (2012BAI01B06). Reasonable requests for access to the data should be directed to Tao Li, The Mental Health Center and the Psychiatric Laboratory, West China Hospital, Sichuan University. Data obtained from the patients in the Xiangya cohort were used with agreement from the Second Xiangya Hospital of Central South University in China. Reasonable requests for access to the data should be directed to Zening Liu, Institute of Mental Health, Second Xiangya Hospital, Central South University. Data obtained from the patients in the Nottingham cohort were used with agreement from Nottingham University. Data acquisition was funded by MRC (grant reference G0601442). Reasonable requests for access to the data should be directed to Peter F Liddle, Division of Psychiatry and Applied Psychology, University of Nottingham.”


In the publication of this article , there iThe error: In the initially published version of this article, the caption for Figs. The correct captions for Figs.


There is an error in the Funding statement for GY. GY was supported by grants MH107367 and HD085902 from the National Institutes of Health and the Seed Grant BRFSG-2014-14 from the Brain Research Foundation.Funding:As a result, a correction has been made to the “This work was supported by the Netherlands Organisation for Scientific Research (NWO) Rubicon Fellowship (019.163LW.032) (to MvdH); the Brain Foundation, the Walker Family, and the Perpetual Impact Philanthropy (grant IPAP2017/0717) (to CB); the G. Harold & Leila Y. Mathers Charitable Foundation, JPB Foundation, and the NIH  (to FG). GY was supported by MH107367 and HD085902 from the National Institutes of Health and the Seed Grant BRFSG-2014-14 from the Brain Research Foundation.”Additionally, in the original article, there is an error. The conflict of interest statement is incomplete.Conflict of interest statement:A correction has been made to the “GY is co-founder, member of the Board of Directors, on SAB, equity holder, and paid consultant for Locana. The terms of this arrangement have been reviewed and approved by the University of California, San Diego in accordance with its conflict of interest policies. The remaining authors declare that the research was conducted in the absence of any commercial or financial relationships that could be construed as a potential conflict of interest.The authors apologize for these errors and state that they do not change the scientific conclusions of the article in any way. The original article has been updated.


Correction to: Mol Autism (2019) 10:29https://doi.org/10.1186/s13229-019-0280-6Following publication of the original article , we haveAll EEG studies and analyses were performed with institutional review board (IRB) and/or National Research Ethics Service approval.The Ethics statement should read:The EEG data collected for subject 801–015 was collected at University of Tennessee Health Science Centre (UTHSC) under an IRB approved protocol with informed consent, the transfer of this EEG data to University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) for analysis was not approved by the UTHSC IRB. The data transfer was approved by the UCLA IRB with the understanding that the data file was de-identified, however, patient identifiers were included on the EEG disk in error. The EEG data for this subject are now stored on the UCLA server fully de-identified. All other subjects were collected at UCLA under an IRB approved protocol. The data and results presented in this article remain unaffected, and this correction has been published at the request of the Research Integrity Officer at UTHSC.The authors gratefully acknowledge the support of the Economic & Social Research Council . Prof Mark Hawley is a Theme Lead for the National Institute for Health Research (NIHR) Devices for Dignity MedTech Co-operative (MIC). The work of the Devices for Dignity MIC is funded by the NIHR. The views expressed are those of the authors and not necessarily those of the NHS, the NIHR or the Department of Health and Social Care.


The Swedish Medical Products Agency (MPA) is the Swedish national authority responsible for regulation and surveillance of the development, manufacturing and marketing of medicinal products. Relenza, a neuraminidase inhibitor used in the treatment of influenza, has been evaluated by both the Swedish MPA and the United States Food and Drug Administration.In a paper by Mulinari et al. , the div


Subscribe to the newsletters and see the WONCA Africa page there at https://www.wonca.net/AboutWonca/Regions/Africa.aspx.As the new president of the World Organization of National Colleges, Academies and Academic Associations of General Practitioners/Family Physicians (WONCA) Africa, I realise that many family doctors in Africa know very little about WONCA. I hope that this editorial and other communications will begin to ensure every family doctor in Africa knows and supports WONCA. WONCA was set up in 1972. It built up a great brand value over the years. This was retained in developing a short name for the organisation: WONCA, the World Organisation of Family Doctors. WONCA Council is made up of 118 member organisations from colleges, academies and associations of family doctors in 131 countries across the world. The mission of WONCA is to improve the quality of life of people of the world through defining and promoting its values, including respect for universal human rights, including gender equity, and by fostering high standards of care in general practice/family medicine. It represents and acts as an advocate for its members at an international level where it interacts with world bodies such as the World Health Organization (WHO). A small WONCA Executive team meets regularly between biannual WONCA Council meetings. The 13 members of WONCA Executive team are the world president, president-elect, immediate past president, regional presidents from each of the seven WONCA regions – Africa, Asia Pacific, East Mediterranean, Europe, Iberoamericana-CIMF, North America and South Asia – and three members-at-large. The WONCA World Secretariat is currently located in Bangkok. WONCA has rich resources on its website, WONCA Africa Region is made up of ten paid-up member organisations as of October 2018: Association of Family Physicians of Uganda, Association of General and Private Medical Practitioners of Nigeria, College of Primary Care Physicians of Zimbabwe, Faculty of Family Medicine in the National Postgraduate Medical College of Nigeria, Kenya Association of Family Physicians, Lesotho Medical Association, Society of Family Physicians of Nigeria, South African Academy of Family Physicians, Society of Family Physicians of Ghana and the Faculty of Family Medicine (Ghana Chapter) in the West African College of Physicians. Africa was right there in WONCA in 1972. Recent presidents included Bruce Sparks, Khaya Mfenyana, Sylvester Osinowo, Matie Obazee and Henry Lawson. Africa has been a very difficult terrain for growing WONCA and is recognised as such by WONCA. WONCA had a memorable world onference in South Africa in 2001 and elected Bruce Sparks as its world president for 2004–2007. The first WONCA Africa conference was held in Nigeria in 2000, with a second conference held after many years in South Africa in 2009. This continued with Zimbabwe (2012), Ghana (2015) and South Africa (2017). Much of the recent success in holding conferences has come from Belgian support for African family medicine, especially the Primafamed Network and its collaboration with WONCA conferences.I was elected as president-elect at the WONCA Africa Council Meeting before the WONCA Conference in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil (2016) to serve under President Henry Lawson (2016–2018) and to then serve as President from 2018 to 2020. WONCA Africa Council met again before the WONCA Conference, Seoul, South Korea (October 2018) to elect the new WONCA Africa Executive Committee see : Dr Dan www.WoncaAfrica2019.com. Register and come to Uganda to interact with an array of international speakers on the theme ‘People-centred PHC’. The year 2019 will be a momentous year, with the implementation of the Astana Declaration becoming a key issue amongst governments. We intend to engage with the WHO globally and in Africa to facilitate relationships between ministries of health and WONCA member organisations in Africa. We will be inviting the WHO Regional Director to speak at our Regional Conference and to meet leaders of our member organisations. There is a number of other plans: building membership of WONCA Africa, especially academic departments of family medicine; building resources for academic departments including research collaborations; improving women and young doctor participation in WONCA Africa and member organisations; strengthening African involvement in WONCA working parties and special interest groups; improving funding of WONCA Africa; adopting regional bylaws to ensure good governance of WONCA Africa; and improving communications with ordinary family doctors as well as member organisations.There are many plans but the first priority is to ensure that the next WONCA Africa Conference in Kampala, Uganda, 06–08 June 2019, is a success. The website is available at https://www.woncaafrica.org, and @WoncaAfrica on Facebook, Twitter and Telegram to keep abreast of things at WONCA Africa.This is the first editorial from WONCA Africa. There will be more details on these plans as we proceed. Check the WONCA Africa website at


The authors wish to make the following corrections to their paper :The middle initial has been added to the name of co-author Sanghamitra Misra. The correct name is Sanghamitra M. Misra.https://imconsortium.org/about/introduction/ (accessed on 27 August 2018).Academic Consortium for Integrative Medicine and Health. Available Online: The citation website link to the first reference in the original paper is now unavailable. The correct reference is as follows:In addition, we found that the organization name listed in Section 4 (p. 5) and in the acknowledgments section is incorrect—the reference to the Academic Consortium for Integrative Medicine and Health (ACIHM) is incorrect. The correct organization name is the Academic Collaborative for Integrative Health (ACIH). The corrected last sentence of the second paragraph in Section 4 is as follows:Specifically, with organizational support by John Weeks, a pioneer in collaborative interprofessional IM efforts over several decades, representatives from the Academic Collaborative for Integrative Health (ACIH) participated in a comprehensive pre-summit survey.The corrected acknowledgments are as follows:Acknowledgments: The Pediatric Integrative Medicine Leadership Initiative would like foremost to thank the Marino Health Foundation for its generous support of the 2015 and 2016 summits and related work. The PIMLI would also like to acknowledge the American Academy of Pediatrics, in particular Teri Salus and Anne Gramiak, for their logistical support coordinating and facilitating the 2015 PIMLI Summit. PIMLI leaders are extremely grateful to John Weeks and the ACIH committee who helped in preparation for the 2015 summit, and to Kiwi Magazine and the Moms Meet Network for assistance with the 2015 Parent Survey. Finally, the PIMLI group thanks the members of the PIM community who participated in the 2015 and 2016 professional surveys. Thank you to all the PIMLI leaders involved, in addition to the authors: Michelle Bailey, David Becker, Anu French, Scott Shannon, David M. Steinhorn, Minal Vazirani, and Ana Maria Verissimo.The authors would like to apologize for any inconvenience caused to the readers by these changes that do not affect the scientific results. The manuscript will be updated and the original will remain on the article webpage, with a reference to this Correction.


In the original article, we neglected to include the funder “National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases of the National Institute of Health (NIAID-NIH), R01AI138230” to WD.The authors apologize for this error and state that this does not change the scientific conclusions of the article in any way. The original article has been updated.


In the Funding section, the grant number from the funder European Research Council is missing. The correct funding information is as follows: This research was funded by CEPREMAP and the European Research Council. Yann Algan received financial support for this work from the European Commission’s Horizon 2020 program under European Research Council Consolidator Grant no. 647870. The funders had no role in study design, data collection and analysis, decision to publish, or preparation of the manuscript.


Prenatal diagnosis, care and management are involved in mortality and morbidity of every country. A high prevalence is estimated in Africa. We use bibliometrics and mapping tools to explore the area studies and countries involved in scientific research on prenatal diagnosis, care and management in Africa. We used two databases: Web of Science and Pubmed. We extracted sets of data as publication years, organizations, funding agencies, countries from Web of Science core collection database and Medical Subject Headings from Pubmed database. We mapped the data using VOSviewer. We performed keyword analysis. We accessed 463 articles published between 1956 and 2015 in Web of Science Core collection Database and 3372 from Pubmed database. The majority of which were after 2004. The main countries involved in research on prenatal field in Africa were the USA, the United Kingdom, France and South Africa. Two main keywords are relevant: fetal alcohol syndrome and HIV. Prenatal diagnosis, care and management are leaded by South Africa. Some new countries are merging such as Rwanda. The main fields are fetal alcohol syndrome and HIV. It is funded by NIH but also Cape Town University. Maternal and child survival is one of the main goals for the World Health Organization , 2. The We used previously described methods -7. BriefUsing WOS core collection database, we obtained 463 records. More of the records were after 2004 . The maiMost articles were published after 2004 according to the analysis of two databases Pubmed and WOS. This is in accordance with indexation and publication rates of previous studies -7. On thSouth Africa is the main African country involved in prenatal diagnosis, care and management. This is a confirmation of previous general studies on the leading role of South Africa in the continent . In WestKeyword analysis, Web of Science Category analysis and MeSH analysis reveal two main topics: fetal alcohol syndrome and HIV. In fact, public environmental health  is one oFetal alcohol syndrome or fetal alcohol spectrum disorders (FASD) are a range of disabilities due to materno-fetal alcohol exposure . Main feThe second main topic is HIV . Old stuIn conclusion, prenatal diagnosis, care and management are leaded by South Africa. Moreover, some new countries are merging such as Rwanda. The main fields are fetal alcohol syndrome and HIV, funded by NIH (USA) but also Cape Town University (South Africa). Coordination of national health policies are required to improve prenatal diagnosis, care and management.The authors declare no competing interest.


In the original article, there was an error in Acknowledgements section. We need to add an acknowledgement of Dr. Robert X. Smith for his contributions towards Figure 1.A correction has been made to the Acknowledgements section.This work was partially supported by the Intramural Research Program of the National Institute on Drug Abuse, the National Institutes of Health (NIH). Data from the Human Connectome Project, WU-Minn Consortium  were funded by the 16 NIH Institutes and Centers that support the NIH Blueprint for Neuroscience Research; This work was also supported by NIH grant (UH2-NS100614). The authors are grateful to Drs. Michael Breakspear and Stewart Heitmann for their help with the Brain Dynamic Toolbox. The authors are also grateful to Dr. Robert X. Smith for his contribution of Figure 1.The authors apologize for this error and state that this does not change the scientific conclusions of the article in any way.The original article has been updated.The authors declare that the research was conducted in the absence of any commercial or financial relationships that could be construed as a potential conflict of interest.


In addition, the correct number for The National Institute of Biological Resources of Korea is “NIBR201631201”.There is an error in the Funding. The correct name for the funder is “The National Institute of Biological Resources of Korea”. Website: The authors apologize for this error and state that this does not change the scientific conclusions of the article in any way. The original article has been updated.


The authors of “Video-Delivered Family Therapy for Home Visited Young Mothers With Perinatal Depressive Symptoms: Quasi-Experimental Implementation-Effectiveness Hybrid Trial” :e11513) wish to add the following funding statement to their Acknowledgments section:Research reported in this publication was supported by The Dartmouth Clinical and Translational Science Institute, under award number UL1TR001086 from the National Center for Advancing Translational Sciences (NCATS) of the National Institutes of Health (NIH). The content is solely the responsibility of the authors and does not necessarily represent the official views of the NIH.The correction will appear in the online version of the paper on the JMIR website on March 7, 2019, together with the publication of this correction notice. Because this was made after submission to PubMed, PubMed Central, and other full-text repositories, the corrected article also has been resubmitted to those repositories.


Johan Delport is not included in the author byline. Johan Delport should be listed as the seventh author and affiliated with Department of Medical Microbiology, London Health Sciences Center, London, Canada. The contributions of this author are as follows: Methodology and Validation.


Hosung Kang was supported by the Postdoctoral Research Program of Sungkyunkwan University (2015) and Philip M. Graybill was supported by Virginia Tech's BIOTRANS IGEP. The funders had no role in study design, data collection and analysis, decision to publish, or preparation of the manuscript.There are errors in the Funding section. The correct funding information is as follows: This work was supported by


The authors would like to add the funding number to the published article . The corFunding: This research was funded by the Ministry of Education, Youth and Sports of the Czech Republic, agreement number MSMT-5727/2018-2 and by the Ministry of Education and Science of the Russian Federation, agreement No14.587.21.0049 (unique identifier RFMEFI58718X0049).The manuscript will be updated, and the original will remain online on the article’s webpage. The authors would like to apologize for any inconvenience caused to the readers by these changes.


There is an error in the Funding statement. One of the grant numbers is incorrect and should be BE 5601/4-1 instead of BE 5604/1-1.The corrected statement should read: “This research was supported by German Research Foundation , the Federal Ministry of Education and Research , the National Eye Institute  and the Max Planck Society . The funders had no role in study design, data collection and analysis, decision to publish or preparations of the manuscript.”


AbstractEditorial of special issue of plant diversity in southeastern Asia. BRI) is a long term programme to connect the world with the aim of increasing trade and economic growth and accerelating regional integration. BRI extends into global biodiversity conservation. SE Asia is one of the BRI regions. In order to conserve high biodiversity and promote sustainable development in SE Asia, the Southeast Asian Biodiversity Research Institute (SEABRI) was established by the Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS), in Nay Pyi Taw in 2015  from the Neogene of South-Western China and Northern Vietnam, a new genus and species of temperate bamboo  from Central-Southern Vietnam and a new species of paleotropical bamboo genus Schizostachyum  from Vietnam, a new species and two new records of Goniothalamus (Annonaceae) from Laos and studies of Begonia (Begoniaceae) from Laos and Myanmar, a new species of Bulbophyllum (Orchidaceae) from Indonesia, two new species of Alseodaphnopsis (Lauraceae) from South-Western China and Northern Myanmar, a new species of Ainsliaea (Asteraceae) from near the border of Myanmar and China, new species of Colocasia (Araceae), Ophiorrhiza (Rubiaceae), Blumea (Asteraceae) and Zingiber (Zingiberaceae) from Myanmar and taxonomic studies on Amomum (Zingiberaceae) from Myanmar, an annotated checklist of Orchidaceae and notes on Gastrochillus (Orchidaceae) from Myanmar and a new species and two new combinations of Monolophus (Zingiberaceae) from Indo-Burma. All these studies were financially supported by the CAS.The documentation of the rich biodiversity in SE Asia is the very first step towards understanding and conservation of biodiversity . The fir in 2018 . This su


The following information is missing from the Funding section: This article was funded by the Qatar National Library. The funder had no role in study design, data collection and analysis, decision to publish, or preparation of the manuscript.


In the original article, we neglected to include the funders Ministry of Trade, Industry and Energy , Ministry of Science and ICT , and Ministry of Health and Welfare , who provided funding under the Technology Development Program for AI-Bio-Robot-Medicine Convergence (20001650).The authors apologize for this error and state that this does not change the scientific conclusions of the article in any way. The original article has been updated.


The following information is missing from the Funding section: This work was supported by Research to Prevent Blindness, New York, New York.


In the version of this article published earlier, the funding information was omitted. The note is hereby provided as: ‘The authors acknowledge the funding support provided by the Maternal Mental Health Fund, Rural Health Fund, National Research Foundation and the National Health Scholars Programme’. This correction does not alter the study’s findings of significance or overall interpretation of the study results. The publisher apologises for any inconvenience caused.


The following information is missing from the Funding statement: This article was funded by the Qatar National Library. The funder had no role in study design, data collection and analysis, decision to publish, or preparation of the manuscript.


The funders had no role in study design, data collection and analysis, decision to publish, or preparation of the manuscript.There are errors in the Funding section. The correct funding information is as follows: This work was supported by the Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council [grant number BB/J015660/1]; and the National Centre for the Replacement, Refinement & Reduction of Animals in Research [grant number NC/N003071/1]