Berlin, 4 February 2009 - The winners of the second 25,000 Euro Amedeo Challenge Award are Stefan Mauss, Thomas Berg, Jürgen Rockstroh, Christoph Sarrazin, Heiner Wedemeyer, et al.

Their textbook, Hepatology 2009, is now available:
Download (PDF, 9 MB, 501 pages).

501 pages, free PDF Website

Amedeo Textbook Award #1: Tuberculosis

The winners of the 12,500 Euro Amedeo Tuberculosis Textbook Award are Juan Carlos Palomino, Sylvia Cardoso Leão, Viviana Ritacco, et al. Their textbook, Tuberculosis 2007 (687 pages, PDF, 8.3 MB), is now available for free download. more...

The Amedeo Tuberculosis Award was funded by Patricia Bourcillier and Bernd Sebastian Kamps.

687 pages, free PDF

Amedeo

Who is Amedeo? What are the driving forces behind the project? What is Free Medical Information? How can free medical textbooks such as HIV Medicine generate money? And what the hell is Amedeo Challenge, creating awards, motivating physicians to publish, calling for donations? Attilio Baghino has been the official biographer of the Amedeo project since 1999 and answers all these questions and many more: How Amedeo was born and where it will eventually take us. We are in the middle of a hurricane, which is approaching medical publishing territory. The Amedeo Challenge describes some of the players and forces involved.

66 pages, PDF, 1.4 MB