BIOL 401 Medical Literature Homepage

Class Summary Notes

Week One Summary Notes

Week Two Summary Notes

Week Three Summary Notes

Week Four Summary Notes

Exams

Second (comprehensive) Exam is on Friday 14^th December (in class) 1-3pm

First Exam Key

Course Discussion Articles

Bojesen et al 2003 JNCI

Fowler et al 2004 Neurology

Sonies et al 2005 Medicine

Article for first writing assignment (due 27^th November by 1pm)

AIDS 2006 HIV INSERM-Villejuif – see course syllabus for instructions – also Guidelines

Article for second writing assignment (due 10^th December by 5pm)

2007 Nicotine and Smoking CEBP article – writing guidelines for second essay

Medical Literature in the News

7 Nov 07 Merck HIV vaccine backfires

8 Nov 07 NEJM Caffeine and Apnea

15 Nov 07 NEJM Generic Drugs

20 Nov 07 IHT Lower Nicotine Cigarettes

29 Nov 07 NEJM Dengue and Yellow Fever

Secondary Articles

Clinical Cancer Research 2006 Prostate Cancer

British Medical Journal 2006 Bacteria

Clinical Cancer Research 2005 (survival)

British Journal of Cancer 2005 Bojesen et al follow-up study on Breast Cancer

PNAS 2002 Hydrogel

American Journal of Epidemiology 2000 Exercise and MI

American Journal of Clinical Nutrition 2000 (2way ANOVA)

J Neuropsychiatry Clin Neurosci 2000 (MANOVA)

Useful Websites

Syllabus

Web version of a Statistics textbook
Another Statistics textbook on the web