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From the water we drink to the blood in our veins, our lives depend on a complex and dynamic interplay of fluidic interactions. Understanding the ways in which our bodies create and employ these fluids is vitally important, so that we can better diagnose and treat the health issues that stem from them. Caption by Peter Harris. Original cover design by Peter Harris.

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:

June 2023: Climate Change and Environmental Health (submission deadline: ~~February 15th, 2023~~)
October 1st, 2023: Big Data (submission deadline: May 31st, 2023)
December 2023: Cell Fate (submission deadline: June 1st, 2023)
March 2024: Pregnancy and Child Development (submission deadline: September 1st, 2023)

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

Daniel Jovin and Ryland Mortlock

Editors picks for the current issue:

Integrated Analysis of Tracheobronchial Fluid from Before and After Cardiopulmonary Bypass Reveals Activation of the Integrated Stress Response and Altered Pulmonary Microvascular Permeability
Victoria Habet, Ningshan Li, Ji Qi, Gang Peng, Georgia Charkoftaki, Vasilis Vasiliou, Lokesh Sharma, Jordan S. Pober, Charles Dela Cruz, Xiting Yan, Richard W. Pierce
The Importance of Cerebrospinal Fluid Investigation in First-episode Psychosis
Denis Pavăl, Nicoleta Gherghel-Pavăl, Octavia O. Căpățînă, Adina Stan, Ioana V. Micluția, Eloi Giné-Servén
Natriuretic Peptides as Biomarkers: Narrative Review and Considerations in Cardiovascular and Respiratory Dysfunctions
Mohammad Samad, Sreekar Malempati, Carolina B. A. Restini

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Fluids - March 2023

2022 Issues

The prevention and treatment of infection by bacteria, parasites, fungi, and viruses is one of modern medicine's greatest accomplishments. However, these microbes undergo constant evolution, and increasingly show signs of developed resistances that can overwhelm traditional medication. Understanding these adaptations and discovering new antimicrobial drugs is essential to stave off this threat to global health and development.

Antimicrobial Resistance - December 2022

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.

Bioethics - September 2022

Various methods of inoculation, variolation, and immunization have been used for hundreds of years as a proven prevention of serious illness. Today, vaccination is one of our best tools in the suppression and eradication of many diseases; most notably and recently, illness caused by the COVID-19 virus. Caption and original cover design by Peter Harris.

Vaccines – June 2022

The Science of Stress - March 2022