Updates and Progress

Starting with the 1 January 1996 issue, Annals inaugurated a new format, the Updates, which replaces the previous Diagnosis and Treatment section. Much of Annals reports on medical advances, but, as described in our Information for Authors, Updates are specifically designed to present “recent, rapid evolution or development of concepts and practices. Content should offer guidance in clinical practice, with references to additional authoritative sources.”

True, the kind of preoccupation with progress that has been described as “the traditional American love of new gadgetry and dread of being caught up …