In this edition of the Journal of Clinical Densitometry we have included 44 abstracts from the Second International Symposium on Bone Ultrasonometry for Clinical Practitioners. The editorial board felt very strongly that including these abstracts would provide the reader with an opportunity to remain current in this ever-growing area. We believe that clinical investigations with ultrasound will occupy a growing part of the bone field and will be center stage in subsequent journals. In fact, we are in the enviable position of having established a process for peer review that will allow clinical ultrasound papers to be widely disseminated. Unfortunately, this did not happen with bone density manuscripts, so clinicians were left trying to define utility without a large database. In the upcoming issues of JCD, readers will have the opportunity to see more ultrasound papers. Additionally, the third edition of this year's journal will be devoted to the full papers presented at this International Symposium.