50 years with Acta Oncologica

Over 50 years of trial in Acta Psychiatrica Scandinavica: a survey

BACKGROUND Randomised controlled trials are the gold standard for evaluating mental health care interventions. We assessed the content and quality of trials published in Acta Psychiatrica Scandinavica and Supplementum since 1948. METHODS All trials were identified manually, quality assessed, data extracted, and sought on Medline. RESULTS About 8.6% of all reports in the journal were clinica...

Thirty years of Acta Myologica

The present issue opens the thirtieth volume of Acta Myologica, and, just as people celebrate the appearance of a new century a year ahead of time, we will not wait until the end of the third decade of this journal's appearance , but will hail the first issue, that comes with an XXX printed on its cover, with a short account of the journal's history. Almost 30 years ago, two experts in neuromus...

50 years of Sterillium®

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...

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...