Several communication journals, including Communication Design Quarterly,[4] Journal of Business and Technical Communication,[5] Technical Communication Quarterly,[6] and Present Tense,[7] have published special issues on themes related to medical rhetoric. The majority of research in the field is indexed in the academic database EBSCO Communication & Mass Media Complete.[8] In 2013, scholars in the field also began a biennial symposium, Discourses of Health and Medicine.[9]