Início de um novo ano e muitas novidades para os ABD

Abstract

The beginning of a new year brings exciting changes for the ABD We start the year with very good news: according to the statute of the Brazilian Society of Dermatology (SBD), we now have an additional Associate Editor, Mr. Ayres Andrela Fralete Vallarelli, from Campinas-SP, who holds an M.Sc. and a Ph.D. in Dermatology from UNICAMP. We believe that his knowledge and enthusiasm will add much value to the ABD. In the first issue of 2011, in the section "Images in Dermatology", we bring the article titled "Dermoscopy features for the diagnosis of furuncular myiasis", which is further illustrated with a video uploaded to our website. This is an extra resource made available by the ABD to the authors who submit their work to the journal and would like to enhance their articles by making use of such materials. We would like to remind you that original articles may be submitted in English or Portuguese until April of 2011. From this date on, they must be submitted in English only for the reasons stated in the last editorial and now quickly summarized: greater possibility of global exchange of scientific information among the authors (which is why we eagerly fought for so many years for indexation in Medline), bigger pool of reviewers, less chance of inadequate translations done by non-authors and, lastly and inevitably, greater international visibility of our