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Stylized journal cover art featuring a human bust with exaggerated halftone dots, resembling an electron micrograph. A stream of antibodies winds through clusters of yellow-orange viruses, with the changing color reflecting the viruses’ influence. As the antibodies reach the human bust, they become red, which symbolizes the chaotic and dangerous autoimmune response. Original cover design by Peter Harris. Caption by Peter Harris, RuthMabel Boytz, and Evan Navori.
Our focus on special topics for each issue attracts high quality reviews and research articles and provides a broader readership than smaller specialty journals. Since implementing this format in 2015, our readership, impact and quality have increased substantially and continue to grow. In particular, each focus topic is suggested by and voted upon by the YJBM Editorial Board. As such, the topics chosen are those that we, as graduate, medical, and professional students, find to be the most exciting and impactful.
We decide on focus topics thirteen months before the publication of the issue and accept manuscripts on the focus topic up to three months before the publication of the issue (depending on the type of submission).
Upcoming focus topics:
- March 2025: Kinase Signaling (submission deadline: September 1st, 2024)
- June 2025: Epigenetics (submission deadline: March 3rd, 2025)
- September 2025: History of Medicine (submission deadline: April 1st, 2025)
To find out more information as to how to submit a manuscript to the YJBM, please visit the Types of Articles Published and Manuscript Submission Guidelines pages.
Deputy Editors
RuthMabel Boytz and Evan Navori
Editors picks for the current issue:
- Tocilizumab for Cystoid Macular Edema Secondary to Immune Recovery Uveitis in a Patient with Contraindications to Long-Term Systemic Corticosteroid
Ba Trung Nguyen, Jia-Horung Hung, Zheng Xian Thng, Dalia El Feky, Azadeh Mobasserian, Aim-On Saengsirinavin, Xiaoyan Zhang, Frances Andrea Anover, S. Saeed Mohammadi, Ngoc Tuong Trong Than, Anadi Khatri, Negin Yavari, Battuya Ganbold, Cigdem Yasar, Osama Elaraby, Amir Akhavanrezayat, Woong-Sun Yoo, Ankur Sudhir Gupta, and Quan Dong Nguyen - The Intestine in Acute and Long COVID: Pathophysiological Insights and Key Lessons
Andreas Zollner, Moritz Meyer, Almina Jukic, Timon Adolph, and Herbert Tilg - Acute Immunological Profile and Prognostic Biomarkers of Persistent Joint Pain in Chikungunya Fever: A Systematic Review
Anyela Lozano-Parra, Víctor Herrera, Silvio Urcuqui-Inchima, Rosa Margarita Gélvez Ramírez, and Luis Ángel Villar - Human Endogenous Retroviruses Expression in Autoimmunity
Christophe Viret and Margaret S. Bynoe
2024 Issues
Stylized journal cover art featuring a human bust with exaggerated halftone dots, resembling an electron micrograph. A stream of antibodies winds through clusters of yellow-orange viruses, with the changing color reflecting the viruses’ influence. As the antibodies reach the human bust, they become red, which symbolizes the chaotic and dangerous autoimmune response. Original cover design by Peter Harris. Caption by Peter Harris, RuthMabel Boytz, and Evan Navori.
Integrative Medicine – September 2024
Just like a spectrum of light can be combined into white light, integrative medicine draws from a variety of traditions and practices to tackle mental and physical wellbeing in a way that addresses patients' needs from diagnosis through recovery. Depicted in this cover are just some of these practices; therapy and group support, herbal supplements, cellular biology research, Chinese medicinal traditions, genetic scenery, and wellness & mindfulness practices. Caption and original cover design by Peter Harris.
Individuals with a chronic disease face a challenging landscape on their journey to meet with healthcare providers and often face under-acknowledged internal and external obstacles on the route to seeking help. While these experiences may be clear to individual patients, the shared commonalities across different chronic diseases are less connected in the literature as the very nature of what constitutes a chronic disease continues to be debated. This issue features discussions and research findings relevant across the umbrella of chronic disease, uniting topics from patient perspectives to emerging therapeutics. Caption by Noah Yann Lee and Bassel Shanab. Original cover design by Peter Harris.
Pregnancy is a time of radical and rapid change with acute implications for the health of expecting parents and child, from conception well into the postpartum period. The physiological changes brought about by pregnancy, education about healthcare options, and social support both before and after birth are just some of the factors that can have a drastic impact on the success of a pregnancy and the child's development. This issue explores how we can better understand pregnancy's impact on emotional and physical wellbeing, and how outcomes might be improved for the experience that began all our lives. Caption by Peter Harris. Original cover design by Peter Harris.
2023 Issues
From the ATCG sequences of our genetic code to the detailed chronicles of our healthcare encounters, the pulse of life is ever being captured in "Big Data." In this realm of boundless 1s and 0s, the world of medicine finds itself at the heart of the data revolution. We invite you into this issue as we explore the ever-evolving techniques researchers are deploying to grapple with big data and discern critical patterns that have the potential to revolutionize clinical decision-making and patient care. Caption by Conrad Safranek. Original cover design by Peter Harris.
Our world is evolving drastically from the effects of man-made climate change. As our environment changes, we continue to face new healthcare challenges; from physical ailments, to mental health issues, to climate and medical justice obligations. This cover draws inspiration from the extraordinary images that recently came out of the East coast of the United States, as wildfires in Canada brought an unprecedented level of atmospheric pollution to major population centers. Events like these serve as a stark reminder that our planet is changing, and that we must urgently work to address both the causes of climate change and the health issues arising from it. Caption by Peter Harris. Original cover design by Peter Harris.
2022 Issues
The field of Bioethics rests on four pillars: patient autonomy, beneficence, nonmaleficence, and social justice. In this cover, a figure wielding a staff resembling the rod of Asclepius stands at a compass, which points towards architecture representing these four values. Caption and original cover design by Peter Harris.
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Gene Editing - December 2017