Background: Clinical research is a specific phase of the production process in the pharmaceutical industry in which companies test candidate drugs on patients in order to collect clinical evidence about safety and effectiveness.Objective: This paper is an operational research which aimed to support the hypothesis that pharmaceutical clinical research is l...

DURING this Congress tribute has been paid to many of the men whose names are honoured in the medical history of Liverpool. To these must be added from the war memorial in the entrance hall, the name of Noel Godfrey Chavasse V.C. and bar, one of three men ever to win this double decoration. After Chavasse's death in 1917, the King said that the whole army would mourn the loss of so brave a brot...