Journal bias or author bias.

I read with interest the comment by Mark Wilson in the Indian Journal of Medical Ethics regarding bias and conflicts of interest in medical journals. Wilson targets one journal (the New England Journal of Medicine: NEJM) and one particular “scandal” to make his point that journals’ decisions on publication are biased by commercial conflicts of interest (CoIs). It is interesting that he chooses the NEJM which, by his own admission, had one of the strictest CoI policies and had published widely on this topic. The feeling is that if the NEJM can be guilty, they can all be guilty.

Displaced intraarticular calcanealfractures——Operative versusnonoperative treatm ent / 中华创伤骨科杂志

Taken together,these reports suggestsom e benefitfrom operative com pared with nonoperative treatm entinthe care of displaced calcaneal fractures.In particular,the suggestion that operative care m ay im prove function in certainsubgroups ofpatients who do notreceive workers com pensation m ay be ofparticularclinicalbenefit.Additionalstudies usingpatient-oriented quality oflife m easures to verify the positive results ofsurgery in these subgroups are needed.