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Marion Broome, PhD, RN, FAAN, editor in chief of Nursing Outlook, has been appointed to the National Advisory Council for Nursing Research at the National Institutes of Health. Her service begins in September.

Rhys Williams (Swansea, UK) has been named the new Editor-in-Chief of Primary Care Diabetes as of July 2008. Professor Williams takes over from Professor Guy Rutten (Utrecht, The Netherlands) who has been acting as Editor-in-Chief since the journal’s launch in 2007. Primary Care Diabetes is the official journal of Primary Care Diabetes Europe (PCDE).

Eugene Hughes, Chairman of PCDE, welcomed the appointment, “It is a great honour to have someone as distinguished as Rhys Williams taking over as Editor-in-Chief of the journal. We will aim to build on the solid foundation, and international reputation that has been created since the launch.”

Rhys Williams is Dean of Medicine and Professor of Clinical Epidemiology at the School of Medicine, Swansea University, UK. He is a member of Diabetes UK’s Advisory Council, Chair of its Wales Advisory Council and was, until recently, a Vice President of the International Diabetes Federation. He is a member of IDF’s Prevention Task Force and of its Diabetes Atlas Editorial Board. He is also a visiting consultant to the World Health Organization, Geneva.

Dr William Bains, biotechnology entrepreneur and innovator, and visiting lecturer at the University of Cambridge will edit, Bioscience Hypotheses, a new journal for radical hypotheses on topics throughout the life sciences. The aim of the journal is to stimulate innovation by choosing work that is interesting and challenging, and provides a clear and coherent argument with a testable conclusion.