15 Greatest Milestones in Health and Medicine Online Lecture Series

25 July 2007

Lecture One: Smoking and Health: Halting the Global "Brown Plague"

Professor Simon Chapman
School of Public Health
The University of Sydney

People smoking 20 cigarettes a day for 40 years will baste their lungs with a toxic fog 2.9 million times. In compelling them to do so, nicotine has caused unparalleled mortality. Today, tobacco control is turning the tide on the “brown plague” that kills 4.9 million annually.

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Lecture Two: Evidence Based Medicine: Doctors' and Patients' Sharpest Tool

Associate Professor Alex Barratt
Epidemiology
School of Public Health
The University of Sydney

How did evidence based medicine (EBM) discover that drugs to prevent heart attacks killed more Americans per year than the entire Vietnam War? Or that the standard treatment for acute brain injury was doing more harm than good?

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