JOURNAL PUBLISHING:
Harvard Researcher Named NEJM Editor
Constance Holden
The New England Journal of Medicine has a new editor, its third in less than a year. Jeffrey Drazen, 53, a Harvard asthma researcher and associate chief for research in the Pulmonary Division at Boston's Children's Hospital, takes on the challenge of trying to set the 188-year-old journal on a smooth course following a year of controversy about both its internal policies and its outside activities.