“Research highlights” is a weekly round-up of research papers appearing in the print BMJ. We start off with this week’s research questions, before providing more detail on some individual research papers and accompanying articles. […]
Tag: medical research
Research highlights, 7 January 2011
“Research highlights” is a weekly round-up of research papers appearing in the print BMJ. We start off with this week’s research questions, before providing more detail on some individual research papers and accompanying articles. […]
Behrooz Astaneh: Trial registry – the Iranian experience
Clinical trials are the cornerstone of medical research. Multiple publications of the results of a specific trial as well as non-publication of unfavorable results are among the problems facing the medical literature. To avoid such problems, the idea of trial registries has been proposed, and nowadays authors cannot publish the results of trials in most […]
Fiona Godlee on research in the developing world – for whom and by whom?
Most of the delegates have managed to make it to Mali, despite a threatened strike by Air France’s pilots. In the end, by various routes, there are over 1000 of us from 75 countries. Our aim is to focus on efforts to strengthen the ability of developing countries to do research for health, but airlines […]