Journal of Huazhong University of Science and Technology (Medical Sciences) provides a forum, by publishing peer-reviewed papers, to promote academic exchange between the Chinese researchers and doctors and their foreign counterparts. The journal covers the subjects of biomedicine such as physiology, biochemistry, molecular biology, pharmacology, pathology and pathophysiology etc, and subjects of clinical medicines such as surgery, internal medicine, obstetrics and gynecology, pediatrics and otorhinolaryngology etc. The articles appearing in Journal of Huazhong University of Science and Technology (Medical Sciences) are in English. This journal is the only medical periodical in Western languages sponsored by an educational institution located in the central part of China.