A YEAR OF PROGRESS.

The article announces certain policy changes that are constituted for the journal in the U.S. A new section of the journal entitled "Public Health Briefs" will reflect a moratorium for the receipt of new manuscripts and an innovative plan to deal with those on hand reports. The Executive Board of the American Public Health Association approved a policy on the photocopying of editorial reports published in the journal which grants photocopying privileges for noncommercial purposes of medical, scientific, or educational advancements. The section "Bookshelves" on selected topics will be published four times a year as well as each of the features of "Public Health and the Law and Public Health: Then and Now."