50 Years of Drugs

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Coronavirus: Scientometrics of 50 Years of Global Scientific Productions

Background:  Scientometrics studies are one of the most efficient methods of quantitative evaluation of the scientific outputs of valuable information and citation databases for understanding and observing the status of scientific publications in different subject areas. The main aim of this article was to study the 50 years of Coronavirus scientific publications in the world. Materials & Meth...

Celebrating 50 years

5 0 years ago, what would soon evolve to become the profession of respiratory therapy emerged as the Canadian Society of Inhalation Therapy Technicians. One year following the inception of the Society, Canadian Inhalation Therapy published its first issue. From the outset of the profession, research, evaluation and knowledge translation have been fundamental to advancing our understanding of re...

The development of new analgesics over the past 50 years: a lack of real breakthrough drugs.

Fifty-nine drugs identified as analgesics were introduced from 1960 to 2009 and remain in use. Seven can be regarded as having novel molecular targets; however, only one, sumatriptan, was sufficiently effective to motivate the introduction of many similar drugs acting at the same target (triptans). Publication productivity in the area of pain grew exponentially during this period. Pain-related ...

50 Years of Bailey’s Lemma

Half a century ago, The Proceedings of the London Mathematical Society published W. N. Bailey’s influential paper Identities of the Rogers–Ramanujan type [16]. The main result therein, which was inspired by Rogers’ second proof of the Rogers– Ramanujan identities [49] (and also [48, 28, 15]), is what is now known as Bailey’s lemma. To celebrate the occasion of the lemma’s fiftieth birthday we p...