Borysiewicz to head UK medical council

The UK Medical Research Council and clinical trials, 1934-1960

1940-1949: Randomised controlled trial design pioneered MRC scientists developed what is today the gold standard for clinical trial design while testing streptomycin to treat pulmonary tuberculosis. Although the MRC failed to make any substantive contribution to the development of trial methods before the 1940s, it made exceptionally important contributions between 1944 and 1960. Surprisingly, ...

New UK council to curb psychiatry.

UK Medical Research Council and multicentre clinical trials: from a damning report to international recognition.

Medical Research Council

What is it famous for? While being the main UK government's agency for funding biomedical research, it is probably best known for having nurtured British molecular biology in Cambridge in the golden decade of the 1950s — whence came the double helix model of DNA (James Watson and Francis Crick), the first amino-acid sequence of a protein (insulin, Fred Sanger), and the first three-dimensional p...

Bombay Medical Council

1. Read?Letter dated Kolhapur, 21st August, 1917, from Sub-Assistant Surgeon Raghunath Vaman Bapat, stating that an Ayurvedic medical school has been started in Kolhapur; that the promoters of the same desire to impart elementary knowledge of western medicine to tlieir students, and have asked men practising western medicine whether they would undertake to coach their students in the elementary...