January 2002

Ladies and Gentlemen,

Dear Readers and Friends of Laser Medicine,

I am very happy that we are doing well. Never mind how immodest this may sound, however it is true, and I am convinced that it is mainly thanks to you, readers, authors, editorial board, webmaster, and everybody else helping us, or only keeping the fingers crossed. Just imagine what a great doping it is catching incidentally in an experts` debate words: "... but it has already been in Laser Partner, it`s no news...", or reading at the end of a scientific paper among other references: "Laser Partner, volume, number...".

Laser Partner has been issued since as long as the last century, its first number being dated October 1999. In 2000 Laser Partner obtained the official ISSN code for its Czech and in 2001 for the English version. Today`s Laser Partner is an official newsletter of the Society for the Use of Laser in Medicine and, above all, it is being published with official scientific support of the European Medical Laser Association (EMLA).

Laser Partner brings bilingual surveys on the use of laser in individual medical specialties, introduces interesting novelties in laser medicine, presents important case histories, deals with theory and practice of laser therapy. Today`s Laser Partner represents an interesting and plentiful source of information for all those who are engaged in laser medicine. Apart from the internet, it is also possible to subscribe to Laser Partner and have individual papers sent, and collect them in a special file.

If you like Laser Partner, tell everybody. If you don`t, tell us, and let us know what you miss in it. Thank you and the Committee of the Society for the Use of Laser in Medicine for support. 

I am looking forward to further laser partnership.

Editor in Chief Premysl Fryda

LETTERS TO THE EDITOR:

Dear Colleagues, 

As President of International Society for Laser Surgery and Medicine and Chairman of the Organising Committee of the 14th World Congress of ISLSM in Chennai, India, it is an honour and previlege to pen these lines of introduction to "Laser Partner" which has specially brought out its edition for the participants of the congress. This World Congress is a milestone meeting of the New Mellinium. This conference deals with the application of Laser in 18 different specialities.  I am confident delegates will drive benifit by the scientific content

    Prof. Dr.  B. Krishna Rau

        Chairman of ISSLM

Dear Colleagues,

Today you have in your hands a journal devoted to laser techniques in medicine. We are convinced that it will graduate into an interesting periodical which will be able to contribute to exchange of experience between individual offices, cliniques and colleagues, as well as to conveyance of news in our branch. On behalf of the whole of the Committee of the Czech Society for the Use of Laser in Medicine I wish this periodical a long and fruitful life. 

    Ass. Prof. Ladislav Horak, M.D.

    Chairman of the Czech Society 

    for the Use of Laser in Medicine 

Dear Colleagues,

Having been asked by LASER PARTNER journal, I am sitting at my computer in order to put down a few lines for its editorial. On this occasion I recall my first laser, my first therapeutic attempts with the unit as well as my delight when I found out that it really works! And thus I had started gaining my first experience, knowledge, contacting other colleagues …

And I have always made myself sure about one non-changing truth, that there is never enough information. Therefore I would like to thank those, who took up the work on the project of this journal, for doing so. Only those of you, who had ever done such an imprudence, are able to appreciate all the work and efforts behind (just imagine persuading authors for their papers!). I want to wish them to keep this imprudence in their minds and let them never loose it.

Today you have in your hands a journal devoted to laser techniques in medicine. We are convinced that it will graduate into an interesting periodical which will be able to contribute to exchange of experience between individual offices, cliniques and colleagues, as well as to conveyance of news in our branch. For the journal, our pray is let it bring you more and more new information so that you can always say to yourselves after having read it: „Oh my, I have not known that.“ And for us, who have undertaken to contribute an article from time to time, our papers be new indeed.

           Ass. Prof. Leos Navratil, M.D.

           Chairman of the Radiobiological Society