Blackwell Publishing acquires BMJ Books
Oxford & London, UK-- April 8, 2004--Blackwell Publishing Ltd and BMJ Publishing Group Ltd announced today that they have finalized the sale of BMJ Books, the book-publishing arm of BMJ, to Blackwell. Each year, Blackwell publishes over 100 books and 350 journals in medicine, biomedicine and allied health. With the acquisition of BMJ Books, titles in specialties such as pediatrics, accident an...BMJ turns missing murder case documents over to FDA
The BMJ has turned over confidential drug company documents that went missing from a 10 year old murder case to the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) for review....... The documents, which were sent to the BMJ by an anonymous source, appear to suggest a link between the drug fluoxetine (Prozac), made by Eli Lilly, and suicide attempts and violence. They also suggest that Eli Lilly officials w...... ... ...... Several articles in this week's Christmas issue of the BMJ offer a comprehensive guide for the corrupt and incompetent.... ...The first study shows how performance targets encourage gaming and "creative accounting" of data. The authors describe how to manipulate hospital waiting times and suggests that p...BMJ journals now free for the 100 poorest countries
... ...BMJ specialist journals, such as Gut, Heart and Thorax, are now free online to anybody in the 100 poorest countries of the world, which between them include most of the worlds population.... ...For almost a year, the 23 journals have been free to the 50 poorest countries in the world. Extending the scheme should fuel a virtuous circle of increasing access, writes Dr Richard Smith, in this...It's high time we registered all clinical trials say editors of Lancet and BMJ
. ... The public has a right to know what medical research is being funded, argue the editors of the Lancet and the BMJ in a joint editorial published in this week's issues. What's more, researchers and their financial backers don't want to waste resources running trials that are already being conducted elsewhere, write the authors. They claim that the solution is to make sure that all clinic...