Understanding Medical Research: The Studies That Shaped Medicine

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-Barré 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.