Clinical Trials
Subject
Subject Source: Medical Subject Headings
Found in 2 Collections and/or Records:
Edward D. Freis Papers
Collection
Identifier: MS C 550
Abstract
A pioneer in the study of hypertension, Edward D. Freis, M.D., is best known for leading the 5-year Veterans Administration Cooperative Study on Antihypertensive Agents which proved the value of antihypertensive drugs in decreasing morbidity and mortality; this study was the first multi-clinic, double-blind, randomized, placebo-controlled trial of its kind. Freis's collection of articles, photographs, scrapbooks, and subject files chronicle his sixty-year career in the study of hypertension...
Dates:
1926-2004
Thomas C. Chalmers Papers
Collection
Identifier: MS C 542
Abstract
Thomas C. Chalmers, MD, clinician- scientist- teacher- administrator- entrepreneur, played a pivotal role in the scientific development of the randomized control trial and clinical trial meta-analysis. Research files, teaching materials, correspondence, publications, conference packets and notes, audiovisuals, and personal material document his life and medical career.
Dates:
1927-1995