Press Release: Open Access Journal from the University of Michigan and BioMed Central Publishes First Issue

"Clinical Diabetes and Endocrinology launches its very first issue, a peer-reviewed, online, open access journal that aims to promote better care for people with diabetes and endocrine disease. To achieve this, the journal publishes for health professionals and researchers on a variety of aspects related to diabetes and endocrine diseases and their management ... Our launch issue features a review by Hahr and Molitch from the United States sharing guidelines for managing hyperglycemia in the large group of patients with diabetes complicated by various stages of renal impairment. In addition, Minanni, et al. from Brazil describes their rare complex case of fatal factitious Cushing Syndrome as an example of Münchhausen’s Syndrome. It took a team of clinicians and laboratory scientists to solve this complex challenge, and you can follow their story in the inaugural issue.  Why open access?  With the goal of supporting the University of Michigan’s desire to share knowledge with the world, the collaborators of this journal chose to make this an open access journal to make it more available to health professionals on a global scale. While access is free to readers, authors pay a fee to publish and are the copyright holders of their articles (BioMed Central copyright and license agreement) ..."