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Medical Journals

Medical journals are publications that report medical information to physicians and other
health professionals.
In the past,these journals were available only in print.With the development of electronic publishing,
many medical journals now have Web sites on the Internet,and some journals are published only online.A
few medical journals,like the Journal of the American Medical Association,are considered general medical
journals because they cover many fields of medicine.Most medical journals are specialty journals that focus
on a particular area of medicine.
Medical journals publish many types of articles.Research articles report the results of research studies
on a range of topics varying from the basic mechanisms of diseases to clinical trials that compare outcomes of
different treatments.Review articles summarize and analyze、the information available on a specific topic
based on a careful search of the medical literature.Because the results of individual research studies can be
affected by many factors,combining results from different studies on the same topic can be helpful in reaching
conclusions about the scientific evidence for preventing,diagnosing or treating a particular disease.Case
conferences and case reports may be published in medical journals to educate physicians about particular
illnesses and how to treat them. Editorials in medical journals are short essays that express the views of the
authors,often regarding a research or review article published in the same issue.Editorials provide a per-
spective on how the current article fits with other information on the same topic.Letters to the editor provide
it way for readers of the medical journal to express comments,questions or criticisms about articles published
in that journal.

How many major types of articles are mentioned in the passage?
A:Five.
B:Seven.
C:Four.
D:Six.