The Medical Research Council Trial.

The Medical Research Council Trial.

THE medical literature over the past half dozen or more years has been strewn with reports and commentaries on the treatment of mild hypertension. Those who are particularly influenced by the evidence from the insurance companies point to the well-documented increased mortality in the presence of even a little high blood pressure, cite the efficacy of lowering blood pressure by various nonpharm...

Hypertension Editorial The Medical Research Council Trial

THE medical literature over the past half dozen or more years has been strewn with reports and commentaries on the treatment of mild hypertension. Those who are particularly influenced by the evidence from the insurance companies point to the well-documented increased mortality in the presence of even a little high blood pressure, cite the efficacy of lowering blood pressure by various nonpharm...

The 1944 patulin trial of the British Medical Research Council.

Determining Research Priorities of the Medical Group: Medical Commission of the Scientific Research Council

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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...