Dr. Afshar is a Loyola Medicine pulmonologist and an assistant professor in the division of pulmonary and critical care medicine and department of public health sciences of Loyola University Chicago Stritch School of Medicine. (sciencedaily.com)
Yet after eight years, the ALLHAT report has hardly made a dent in prescribing rates for name - brand blood pressure medications, according to Curt Furberg, a professor of public health sciences at Wake Forest University. (discovermagazine.com)
Sophia Allen, a postdoctoral scholar in public health sciences at Penn State College of Medicine, said the survey helps gather data the state can use to create, implement and evaluate programs and interventions to help prevent the uptake of smoking and other tobacco use in young people. (pennstatehealthnews.org)