April 12, 1955 - Tommy Francis and the salk vaccine

New England Journal of Medicine

Volumn 352, Issue 14, 2005, Pages 1408-1410

  Markel, Howard ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

^b Center for the History of Medicine   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

PLACEBO; POLIOMYELITIS VACCINE;

ACHIEVEMENT; CLINICAL RESEARCH; CLINICAL TRIAL; DRUG EFFICACY; DRUG PACKAGING; DRUG SAFETY; HUMAN; INFECTION PREVENTION; INFORMATION PROCESSING; MASS MEDIUM; PATIENT EDUCATION; POLIOMYELITIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; TREATMENT OUTCOME; ART; ARTICLE; DOUBLE BLIND PROCEDURE; EPIDEMIOLOGY; HISTORY; UNITED STATES;

CLINICAL TRIALS; DOUBLE-BLIND METHOD; EPIDEMIOLOGY; HISTORY, 20TH CENTURY; HUMANS; POLIOMYELITIS; POLIOVIRUS VACCINE, INACTIVATED; PORTRAITS; UNITED STATES;

EID: 15944363066     PISSN: 00284793     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1056/NEJMp048250     Document Type: Review

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