IJMR: a flagship journal of ICMR enters into centenary year

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In the early part of the twentieth century, when India was reeling under the ravages of many life threatening diseases like malaria, filariasis, kala-azar, plague, tuberculosis, leprosy, etc, and medical research was gradually getting momentum with the opening of many research institutes of highest standard including Indian Research Fund Association (erstwhile ICMR) in 1911, there was no journal to disseminate the scientific knowledge. And most of the work carried out in India was being published in British journals or remain buried in the files of the Government offices. A new era in biomedical research was started in the year 1913 to fill this gap, when Indian Journal of Medical Research (IJMR) was started by the ICMR (then IRFA). The journal was mandated to publish research work conducted in India related to public health and hygiene, prevalent communicable and infectious diseases etc. The first issue of the IJMR was published in July 1913. Sir Pardey Lukis, the then Director General, Indian Medical Services (IMS) was the first Editor of the IJMR. …