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Diseases of medical progress: Present status
Author(s) -
Modell Walter
Publication year - 1962
Publication title -
clinical pharmacology and therapeutics
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.941
H-Index - 188
eISSN - 1532-6535
pISSN - 0009-9236
DOI - 10.1002/cpt196232258
Subject(s) - subject (documents) , publishing , drug reaction , medicine , library science , political science , computer science , law , psychiatry , drug
Readers of this journal will recall the review by Col. Robert Harlan Moser, “Diseases of Medical Progress. Progress Report” (2:446‐522, 1961) which served to bring up to date the subject opened by him in an earlier review (New England J. Med. 255:606‐614, 1956) and in his book (Springfield, Ill., 1959, Charles C Thomas, Publisher). Colonel Moser plans, starting with this issue, to keep the subject current by publishing abstracts of papers on drug reactions as they appear. For the most part, these will be of reactions to new drugs or new reactions to old ones. To a lesser extent, better known reactions will also be included. The implications should be clear enough and the abstracts will be published without comment. It is to be understood that these are not critical abstracts and that there is the possibility that some of the reactions ascribed to drugs may prove to be fortuitous. The abstracts are published here so that the association of the effects with particular drugs may be watched for as the drugs continued to be used, since this will lead to conclusive evidence, one way or the other, as well as to fewer disasters.