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+ Sir Richard Peto joins editorial directorate
Professor Sir Richard Peto has joined the editorial
directorate for BioMed Central. Richard Peto is
professor of medical statistics and epidemiology at the
University of Oxford, where he and his colleagues run
many of the largest randomised trials and
epidemiological studies in the world. For the past 30
years he has worked in Oxford with Sir Richard Doll on
the effects of smoking in developed countries, and for
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World Health Organization in Geneva on the current and,
particularly, the future worldwide effects of current
smoking patterns. He was elected a Fellow of the Royal
Society of London (for introducing meta-analyses of
trials, particularly in breast cancer treatment) in
1989, and was knighted (for services to epidemiology
and to cancer prevention) in 1999.
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The Lancet
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The Financial Times
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Many scientific research publications face a dilemma as
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