Sentences with phrase «epidemiology team»

Epidemiology Team Leader, Rickettsial Zoonoses Branch, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Atlanta, GA

But it's not common,» says Susan Montgomery, epidemiology team lead of the Parasitic Diseases Branch at the CDC.

«It seems the trend we're seeing in the United States today is similar to what has been reported in Europe and worldwide, about a 3 percent increase annually in the incidence of type 1,» says Pina Imperatore, the epidemiology team leader in the diabetes division at the CDC.

A research consortium bringing together teams from Inserm, the Nancy and Poitiers University Hospitals, and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC, Atlanta, USA), and coordinated by the Inserm and University of Grenoble Environmental Epidemiology team (Unit 823), has just published an epidemiological study indicating that exposure to certain phenols during pregnancy, especially parabens and triclosan, may disrupt growth of boys during fetal growth and the first years of life.

Compared with 1997 (the first EPIPAGE study), the proportion of infants surviving without severe morbidity has increased by 14 % for infants born between the 25th and 29th weeks and by 6 % for infants born between 30 and 31 weeks» gestation,» explains Pierre - Yves Ancel, leader of the Inserm Obstetrical, Perinatal, and Pediatric Epidemiology Team behind the study.

Not exact matches

Professor Keith Godfrey, from the Medical Research Council Lifecourse Epidemiology Unit and the National Institute for Health Research Southampton Biomedical Research Centre, and a member of the study team, said: «The new findings provide the first direct evidence linking faltering of a baby's growth in the womb with epigenetic modifications that themselves may increase the risk of childhood obesity.

The CDC team's work combines «superb conventional epidemiology with a well - characterized animal model,» epidemiologists Barry Bloom and Peter Small write in an accompanying editorial.

Just how LIN28B might affect menarche isn't clear, says Ken Ong, a paediatrician at the Medical Research Council Epidemiology Unit in Cambridge, UK, who led another team.

In an abstract titled «Factors Associated with Failure to Operate for Localized Pancreatic Adenocarcinoma,» the research team used the Surveillance, Epidemiology and End Results (SEER) database to identify factors associated with not receiving surgery in patients with localized pancreatic cancer.

This data is available on a county - by - county level in the United States, so the research team aimed to match this physical epidemiology with their digital Twitter version.

The team spanned 16 institutions and included first authors Robert Igo, PhD, Assistant Professor of Epidemiology and Biostatistics at Case Western Reserve University School of Medicine and Natalie Afshari, MD, FACS, Professor of Opthalmology at University of California San Diego.

Ibdah's research team used the databases Surveillance, Epidemiology and End Results (SEER) and the North American Association of Central Cancer Registries (NAACCR) to analyze the prevalence, stage and survival rates for colorectal cancer diagnoses in the U.S. based on race and ethnicity from 1973 to 2009.

The team from the Arthritis Research UK Centre for Epidemiology looked at data from over 15,000 patients diagnosed with the disease who were being treated with certain types of immunosuppressive drugs, and found that one in five patients received no influenza vaccinations and one in two patients received no pneumonia vaccine over a five year follow - up period.

Cardiovascular advantages associated with the Mediterranean diet are well - known but now the Italian study, conducted by a team of researchers at the Department of Epidemiology and Prevention led by Giovanni de Gaetano, reveals that such benefits are strongly influenced by the socioeconomic position of people.

In a paper published online in Infection Control & Hospital Epidemiology, the team from the University of Michigan Medical School and VA Ann Arbor Healthcare System reports the results of their survey of a national random sample of hospitals.

To investigate the issue, a team led by Tracey Weissgerber, PhD and Vesna Garovic, MD (Mayo Clinic) analyzed information on 919 men and 1477 women from 954 sibships who participated in the Genetic Epidemiology Network of Arteriopathy study, which examined the genetics of hypertension in white, black, and Hispanic siblings.

Based on the results published in this paper, and with the aim to study the biology and epidemiology of Leishmania in a clinically more relevant context, Dr. Gerald Späth established the international consortium «LeiSHield», that coordinates a concerted effort between partner teams of the Institut Pasteur International Network and beyond, which was initially supported by a seeding fund from the Institut Pasteur International Direction, and is now funded by a 1.7 million euro grant from the EU H2020 program.

The Illinois team, led by veterinary clinical medicine professor Dr. Matt Allender and his colleagues at the Illinois Natural History Survey, are targeting every aspect of the disease — its epidemiology, how it grows, how it is transmitted, how to treat it, and even which disinfectants work or don't work against the primary fungus associated with the disease, Ophidiomyces ophiodiicola.

Dr Louise Wain, Associate Professor in Genetic Epidemiology who led the team of analysts at the University of Leicester added: «The research shows the value of the UK Biobank study and of «big data» for making discoveries that will improve health.

Based on the results published in this paper, and with the aim to study the biology and epidemiology of Leishmania in a clinically more relevant context, Dr. Gerald Späth established the international consortium «LeiSHield» (www.leishield.org), that coordinates a concerted effort between partner teams of the Institut Pasteur International Network and beyond, which was initially supported by a seeding fund from the Institut Pasteur International Direction, and is now funded by a 1.7 million euro grant from the EU H2020 program.

«New approach to tracking how deadly «superbugs» travel could slow their spread: Teams combine expertise to develop, test genome - based epidemiology.»

The research team, led by Renee Goodwin, PhD, in the Department of Epidemiology, analyzed data from the National Household Survey on Drug Use, an annual cross-sectional study of approximately 497, 000 Americans, ages 12 and over.

Associate Professor Manoj Gambhir, from Monash University's Department of Epidemiology and Preventive Medicine, is part of the team working on the research.

Jill was the co-founder of Agrosalud, a non-profit health care program in rural Guatemala and collaborated with the University of Miami Field Epidemiology Survey Team on projects in the San Blas archipelago in Panamá, including cholera intervention, scabies and head lice studies.

Team Representative: Danish Saleheen, MBBS, PhD Assistant Professor of Epidemiology in Biostatistics and Epidemiology, Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania E-mail: [email protected] Phone: [phone]

Raina MacIntyre, PhD, a professor of infectious diseases epidemiology and the head of the University of New South Wales School of Public Health and Community Medicine, in Sydney, Australia, says the research team did nt exactly retract the findings.

In the new study, a research team led by David M. Nathan, MD, of Massachusetts General Hospital, in Boston, looked at results from three large, long - term studies: the Diabetes Control and Complications Trial (DCCT); its follow - up study, the Epidemiology of Diabetes Interventions and Complications (EDIC); and the Pittsburgh Epidemiology of Diabetes Complications (EDC) study.

The finding, detailed in the May issue of the journal Cancer Epidemiology, Biomarkers & Prevention, supports the idea that persistent exposure to secondhand tobacco smoke in childhood can contribute to the development of cancer later in life, said study team member Stephen Hecht of the Cancer Center at the University of Minnesota.

In a 2007 study published in American Journal of Epidemiology, an international team of scientists examined the effect of three flavonoids — quercetin, kaempferol and myricetin — on the development of pancreatic cancer.

Men with the highest levels of exercise before their diagnosis were 30 percent less likely to die of their prostate cancer than those who exercised the least, according to a team led by Ying Wang, senior epidemiologist at the cancer society's epidemiology research program.

The collaboration included teams from Lady Davis Research Institute, Kewish General Hospital (Montreal), the Departments of Epidemiology, Biostatistics and Occupational Health, McGill University (Montreal); the Department of Preventative Medicine, Seoul National University (Korea); and the School of Pharmacy at UniSA.

At the 2015 NAVC Veterinary Conference, Annette L. Litster, BVSc, PhD, FANZCVSc (Feline Medicine), MMedSci (Clinical Epidemiology), former Director of the Maddie's Shelter Medicine Program at Purdue University and currently of the Zoetis Veterinary Specialty Team, presented on «Feline Immunodeficiency Virus: What Every Shelter Needs to Know.»

«It appears that regular vaccination protocols are ineffective against the virulent systemic form of feline calicivirus at the Humane Society of Indianapolis, but all control measures are being strictly followed and staff is working around the clock to contain the outbreak,» says Dr. Litster, a specialist in feline medicine and clinical epidemiology who regularly advises our medical team.

Finally, children adopted from Russia / Eastern Europe appeared at greater risk of developing behavior problems in several domains compared to children adopted from other areas of the world.Members of the International Adoption Project (IAP) Team, all of whom are from the University of Minnesota, are H. Grotevant (Family Social Science); R. Lee (Psychology); W. Hellerstedt (Epidemiology); N. Madsen and M. Bale (Institute of Child Development); and D. Johnson, K. Dole, and S. Iverson (Pediatrics).