List of publications in medicine
This is a list of important publications in medicine, organized by field.
Some reasons why a particular publication might be regarded as important:
- Topic creator - A publication that created a new topic
- Breakthrough - A publication that changed scientific knowledge significantly
- Introduction - A publication that is a good introduction or survey of a topic
- Impact - A publication which had a major impact on the world or on the research
- Latest and greatest - The current most advanced result in a topic
Foundations
De Materia Medica
- Author: Pedanius Dioscorides
- Publication data: De Materia Medica, 50–70
- Online version:
- Description: This five-volume work was a precursor to all modern pharmacopeias. In fact, it remained in use until about 1600 with only additional commentary and minor additions from Arabian and Indian sources.
- Importance: Topic creator, Breakthrough, Impact
Recent studies
Mortality in relation to smoking: 50 years' observation on male British doctors
- Authors: R. Doll, R. Peto, J. Boreham, I. Sutherland
- Publication data: BMJ 2004;328:1519–33.
- Description: This is the British doctors study. A prospective clinical trial which has been running from 1951 to 2001, and in 1956 provided convincing statistical evidence that tobacco smoking increases the risk of lung cancer.
- Importance: Impact
Randomized trial of cholesterol lowering in 4444 patients with coronary heart disease: the Scandinavian Simvastatin Survival Study
- Authors: The Lancet 1994;344:1383–1389
- Description: The Scandinavian Simvastatin Survival Study (also known under the abbreviation 4S) is a multicenter clinical trial that was performed in the 1990s in Scandinavia. The objective of the study was to assess the effect of a cholesterol-lowering drug called simvastatin on mortality and morbidity in group of 4444 patients with coronary heart disease, aged between 35 and 70 years. The patients presented with moderate hypercholesterolemia between 5.5 and 8.0 mmol/L. The results of the trial showed that simvastatin had a lowering effect on mortality and morbidity of patients suffering from coronary heart disease.
- Importance: Impact
Heart Protection Study
- Authors: Medical Research Council
- Online version:
- Description: The Heart Protection Study is a large randomized controlled trial by the Medical Research Council (MRC) in the United Kingdom. It studies the use of statin (simvastatin 40 mg) medication and vitamin supplementation (vitamin E, vitamin C and beta carotene) in patients that are at risk for cardiovascular disease.
- Importance: Impact
Prophylactic implantation of a defibrillator in patients with myocardial infarction and reduced ejection fraction
- Authors: Moss AJ, Zareba W, Hall WJ, Klein H, Wilber DJ, Cannom DS, Daubert JP, Higgins SL, Brown MW, Andrews ML; Multicenter Automatic Defibrillator Implantation Trial II Investigators.
- Publication data: N Engl J Med. 2002 Mar 21;346(12):877-83. Epub 2002 Mar 19. (MADIT 2)
- Description: This study shows that anyone with coronary heart disease and decreased ejection fraction should receive an implantable cardioverter-defibrillator. Applying the recommendation threatens to bankrupt the entire health care industry of the United States with its cost burden the government (a one-time cost of > $250 billion, with yearly expenditures of about 10% of that).
- Importance: Impact
- Banting FG, Best CH, Collip JB, Campbell WR, Fletcher AA. Pancreatic extracts in the treatment of diabetes mellitus. Canadian Medical Association Journal 1922;12:141-146.
- Himsworth HP. Diabetes mellitus: its differentiation into insulin-sensitive and insulin-insensitive types. Lancet 1936;i:127-130.
physiatry
Preventive medicine
Occupational medicine
Cardiovascular surgery
Oromaxillofacial surgery
Pediatric surgery
Surgical Oncology
Forensic medicine
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