Medical students and junior and senior doctors are frequently called upon to give research presentations, write reports, and answer exam questions on specific areas of medical research. Understanding Medical Research: The Studies That Shaped Medicine is an exciting new title that offers a unique and valuable approach to understanding historically influential studies in important areas of medicine. Featuring chapters from Sir Liam Donaldson and Sir David Weatherall, amongst others, world leading researchers identify ten primary research papers that have shaped the direction of research in their given topic, examining why they were carried out, key findings, and how they changed the field. Each chapter also contains short sections on 'Key Questions Remaining' which outline outstanding areas where further research is needed, and a link to 'Key Laboratories/Clinics' which point the reader to major research groups of international standing. Covering the seminal research in core areas of medicine, Understanding Medical Research provides an authoritative framework on each topic for medical students and healthcare professionals.
Contributors Preface Foreword by Sir Liam Donaldson Acknowledgements 1 Population Health Douglas Noble, Felix Greaves and Sir Liam Donaldson 2 Patient Safety Felix Greaves, Douglas Noble and Sir Liam Donaldson 3 Heart Failure Martin R Cowie and Kaushik Guha 4 Acute Coronary Syndrome (NSTEMI) Wei Yao Lim and Colin Berry 5 Lipids, Dyslipidaemia and Cardiovascular Disease Gilbert R Thompson 6 Atrial Fibrillation Kunihiro Nishida and Stanley Nattel 7 Asthma Tak H Lee and Leonard Siew 8 Cystic Fibrosis Andrew Bush 9 Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease Paul A Ford and Peter J Barnes 10 Pneumonia John M Wrightson, Eleanor K Mishra and Robert J O Davies 11. Stroke Philip M W Bath and Nikola Sprigg 12 Parkinson's Disease Edward J Newman and Donald G Grosset 13 Epilepsy Fergus J Rugg-Gunn 14 Motor Neuron Disease Martin R Turner and Kevin Talbot 15 Migraine Mark W Weatherall 16 Multiple Sclerosis Alasdair Coles and Alastair Compston 17 The Autoimmune Basis for Guillain-Barre Syndrome John A Goodfellow and Hugh J Willison 18 Helicobacter pylori , Peptic Ulcers and Gastric Cancer Anahita Dua and Emad M El-Omar 19 Acute Liver Failure James O'Beirne and Andrew Burroughs 20 Haemostasis and Thrombosis Charles Percy and Razi Alikhan 21 Inherited Disorders of Haemoglobin Sir David Weatherall 22 Diabetes Therapy and Prevention of Vascular Damage Philip Home 23 Rheumatoid Arthritis Jonathan CW Edwards and Maria J Leandro 24 Osteoarthritis Kirsten White, Alexander S Nicholls, Anushka Soni and Nigel Arden 25 Systemic Vasculitidies Joanna Robson, Ravi Suppiah and Raashid Luqmani 26 Polycystic Kidney Disease Qi Quan 27 Glomerulopathies Jenny Papakrivopoulo and Robert Unwin 28 AIDS Tica Pichulik and Alison Simmons 29 Transplantation Dame Elizabeth Simpson 30 Autoimmune Disease Jonathan CW Edwards and Geraldine Cambridge 31 The Biochemistry of Depression Philip J Cowen 32 Schizophrenia and the Dopamine Hypothesis Mandy Johnstone and Dame Eve C. Johnstone 33 Alzheimer's Disease Gordon Wilcock and Alistair Burns Index.
