Reporting Health Consequences of War—Reply

In Reply We thank Dr Kravitz for his supportive comments and appreciate his perspective as a former journal editor who faced the challenge of deciding what research and opinion manuscripts warrant publication in medical journals. His formula of new, true, and potentially practice-changing for making decisions adds further clarity and wisdom into the ways that medical journals can act in responsible and careful ways to advance medical knowledge and practice. His comments about the complexity of understanding medical aspects of war align with ours, and his further remarks on the lack of similar reporting of wars and conflicts in other parts of the world, other than the current Gaza war, extends to another harm that we did not mention—a double standard in medical journal decisions.