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Monday, May 20, 2013

May 20, Clinical Trial Day Joel Topf, pbfluids.com Clinical...



May 20, Clinical Trial Day
Joel Topf, pbfluids.com

Clinical trial day is held on May 20th in honor of the first clinical trial, James Lind’s 1747 Trial on the treatment of Scurvy. The ironic thing is how shoddy the study design was. He took 12 sailors with scurvy and divided them into 6 groups of …



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