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Population-based Research in South Wales: The MRC Pneumoconiosis Research Unit and the MRC Epidemiology Unit
(Wellcome Trust Centre for the History of Medicine at UCL, 2002)
Population-based research in south Wales was initially to investigate occupational lung disease in miners. Archie Cochrane, the renowned epidemiologist, and his clinical and environmental studies group at the Pneumoconiosis ...
History of Dialysis in the UK: c.1950-1980
(Wellcome Trust Centre for the History of Medicine at UCL, 2009-12)
Dialysis, the first technological substitution for organ function, is significant not only for the numbers of patients who have benefited. It contributed to the emergence of the field of medical ethics and the development ...
The Discovery, Use and Impact of Platinum Salts as Chemotherapy Agents for Cancer
(Wellcome Trust Centre for the History of Medicine at UCL, 2007-10)
Proposed by Dr Mark Walport (Wellcome Trust) this Seminar examined the discovery, use and impact of platinum salts as chemotherapy agents for cancer. Organized with the assistance of Professor Paul Andrews (St George's ...