Practical Uses of Medical Journals

STATISTICS IN INTERNATIONAL MEDICAL JOURNALS OF IRAN

Medical journals are dead. Long live medical journals.

© 2000 Canadian Medical Association or its licensors The year is 2003. The world’s leading medical journal has gone bankrupt. Three leading Englishlanguage cardiology journals are merging. Some general medical journals are thriving; others have begun to founder. Dr. Harold Varmus has received the Nobel Peace Prize. The tidal wave that led to these events is PubMed Central, a central, entirely e...

Practical Uses of Belief Functions

We present examples where the use of belief functions provided sound and elegant solutions to real life problems. These are essentially characterized by ‘missing’ information. The examples deal with 1) discriminant analysis using a learning set where classes are only partially known; 2) an information retrieval systems handling inter-documents relationships; 3) the combination of data from sens...

Advertisements in Medical Journals

Sir,?I am tired of advertisements. To pick up genuine things from heaps of rubbish has become very difficult. I find advertisements of new medicine from new mushroom firms daily. Naturally all cannot be relied upon. So be pleased to inform the public whether the advertisements regarding medicines that are found in the Indian Medical Gazette or in other journals are genuine, reliable and can be ...

Three New Medical Journals

lie three iNew Medical Journals, whose promoters appear to believe that a future lies before them. The first of these is the British Journal of Children's Diseases, which appeared in January of this year. It appears that an Anglo-American journal of children's diseases was born in 1896, but the Anglican twin appears to have died of marasmus in early infancy while the American continues to flour...