Eye health and vision have widespread and profound implications for many aspects of life, health, sustainable development, and the economy. Yet many people, families, and populations continue to suffe...

A substantial productivity increase was achieved in this rural cohort by providing glasses to correct presbyopia, with little cost and high intervention uptake.

A trial shows how much spectacles can increase productivity

On World Sight Day, we cast a spotlight on the importance of eye care and encourage everyone to #LoveYourEyes. Join us on Thursday, 8 October 2026, and be part of focusing the worlds’ attention on eye...

Setting the scene It’s a challenge to give an account of the “history” of something that I have been a part of in recent decades. If I write about something ...

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The validity of conclusions drawn from systematic reviews depends fundamentally on the reliability of the results from the studies they synthesize. Over more than six decades, instruments for assessin...

Lind’s Treatise of the Scurvy (Lind 1753) is a good illustration of the basis for mid-18th century judgement and decision-making in at least two respects: it quotes the contributions of ...

The original version of what became the Cochrane Handbook for Systematic Reviews of Interventions, which was originally published as Section VI of the Cochrane Toolkit.

James Lind Library quiz 1.1 - Why treatment uncertainties should be addressed, including audio version of the essay.

About the author: Bill Silverman graduated from the University of California Medical School in 1942. He trained as an intern and resident in pediatrics at UC Hospital in San Francisco ...

The introduction of randomized controlled experiments in agriculture in the 1920s and 1930s sometimes involved designing studies to make more than one comparison within the same experiment. Partly bec...

Introduction The introduction of insulin for treating patients with diabetes mellitus must rate as Canada’s earliest contribution to the welfare of humankind. The report by Banting and his colleagues ...

Introduction A very influential paper in rheumatology is the paper by Ritchie and colleagues (Ritchie et al. 1968) which introduced what became known as the “Ritchie Articular Index” (RAI), a ...

Introduction There is a poignant before and after photolithograph of a Victorian lady in the 1878 transactions of the Royal Medical and Chirurgical Society of London (Figure 1) (Ord 1878). ...

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The most entertaining example of inappropriate subgroup analysis is to be found in a 1988 Lancet paper.1 Within a complex table reporting subgroup analyses of the odds of vascular death after streptok...

Introduction In 1950, when I started clinical research in gastroenterology, the treatment of gastric ulcers was far from satisfactory. The role of Helicobacter pylori had not been discovered and the ....

Contribution to a book arising from a symposium by the UK Office of Health Economics in 1978 in which Archie Cochrane wrote: “It is surely a great criticism of our ...

Observed annually on June 1, World Milk Day unites countries, organizations, and communities to recognize and amplify the dairy sector's impact.

The Ben Cao Tu Jing (Atlas of Materia Medica) was first published in 1061 in China, during the reign of Ren Zhong, one of the emperors of the Song Dynasty ...

Who was James Lind? Visitors to the Edinburgh University quadrangle in Teviot Place, which used to house the Medical School, are unlikely to miss the large plaque put up in ...

The James Lind Library announces a new section to cover Patient and Public Involvement (PPIE) and invites contributions from readers.