I was alerted to this excellent page on the James Lind Library recently by Iain Chalmers. For those of you who don’t know what the James Lind Library is, you should take a look at www.jameslindlibrary.org/.

Basically, it is a collection of essays and examples explaining the role of fair tests in treatments in health care. One item worth looking at is the book ‘Testing Treatments’ – published by the British Library in 2006 – which is available for free and is translated into a number of languages such as Arabic, Chinese and Spanish. From a good source, I’m assured this book has been downloaded 80,000 times (as of April 2009) since becoming available under a creative commons license.