Lis-medical members with an interest in Evidence Based Medicine
may be interested to get their hands on the latest issue (Autumn
1998, no. 79) of MRC News. This issue is devoted to clinical trials,
in celebration of the world's very first randomised controlled trial in
1948 (the MRC Streptomycin trial).
The issue includes contributions from Iain Chalmers (Cochrane
Centre), Janet Darbyshire (Director, MRC Clinical Trials Unit), and
Muir Gray (Direct R&D, NHS Anglia/Oxford) and articles on the
design of clinical trials,and their history pre-1948.
Copes can be obtained from THE MRC Publications Group, tel
0171 636 5422
You might also like to visit the MRC Clinical Trials homepage at:
http://www.mrc.ac.uk/Clin_conf/Clin_wel.html
which has links to information about funding, good practice
guidelines and a directory of all MRC Clinical Trials.
Frank Norman National Institute for Medical Research
Deputy Librarian The Ridgeway, Mill Hill
London NW7 1AA, UK
tel 0181 959 3666 ext 2380 email [log in to unmask]
fax 0181 913 8534 http://www.nimr.mrc.ac.uk/personal/Frank
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