UK medical research: To those that hath …

What Hath We Wrought?

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, ...

Thanks to all those who reviewed for European Journal of Medical Research in 2015.

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Our debt to those who are dying: the UK medical establishment should reconsider its stance on assisted suicide.

Death hath a thousand doors to let out life...

Myocardial structural remodeling, a progressive, often self-perpetuating process, is an important marker of progressive heart failure. Myocardial cell loss, through any number of mechanisms mediating cellular death, is an important component in its genesis.1 Traditionally, necrosis has been regarded as the pathological hallmark of myocardial cell death. However, there is accumulating evidence t...