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(Circulation. 1998;97:3.)
© 1998 American Heart Association, Inc.

Editorials

Circulation: New Opportunities

When all is considered, what matters most is opportunity

James T. Willerson, MD

Correspondence to James T. Willerson, MD, Circulation Editorial Office, St Luke's Episcopal Hospital/Texas Heart Institute, 6720 Bertner Ave, Room B524 (MC1-267), Houston, TX 77030-2697.

Beginning with this issue, Circulation will be published on a weekly basis for 50 weeks of the year. This has been the present Editor's goal since the Circulation Editorial offices moved to Houston in 1993,^{1 2} and now with the blessing and full support of the Scientific Publishing Committee of the American Heart Association led previously by Dr. Valentin Fuster and presently by Dr. Elizabeth Nabel, Circulation has this bright new opportunity to further serve the world-wide community interested in cardiovascular medicine.

H. H. Marvin, President of the American Heart Association in 1950 and writing for the Founding Fathers of Circulation, indicated in an Editorial written in its first issue that Circulation would be a vehicle for communicating the best clinical and basic research related to human cardiovascular diseases.³ He wrote, "Circulation, then, is addressed to all those interested in the cardiovascular system in health and disease—the research scientist, the specialist, the practicing physician. Its intention is to include articles in the basic sciences relating to this field and papers representing the finest type of clinical research, as well as those which are mainly "practical" in their application. Recent years have witnessed a remarkable widening of interest in the physiologic and biochemical aspects of the circulation. The journal would fail in one of its most important functions if it did not encourage publication of articles in these and other basic fields. It is the firm purpose of the Editor, the Editorial Board and the Publisher to avoid making . . . [Full Text of this Article]