Sentences with phrase «medical epidemiology»

Fang Fang, PhD Department of Medical Epidemiology and Biostatistics, Karolinska Institutet Tel: [phone] E-mail: [email protected]

The results of this study indicate that the mental distress associated with being given a cancer diagnosis may bring about immediate and critical risks to mental and physical health,» says Dr Fang Fang, a researcher at the Department of Medical Epidemiology and Biostatistics at Karolinska Institutet, who led the study.

«It might be a good idea to pay closer attention to the results of women's previous screenings when deciding at which age it can be discontinued,» says Professor Pär Sparén at Karolinska Institutet's Department of Medical Epidemiology and Biostatistics who led the study.

At Karolinska Institutet he is Professor of Psychiatric Genetics in the Department of Medical Epidemiology and Biostatistics.

Dr Donghao Lu, a PhD student in the Department of Medical Epidemiology and Biostatistics, Karolinska Institutet (Stockholm, Sweden), said: «We found that there were 22 suicides among the cancer patients versus 14 expected and 136 attempts at suicide versus 80 expected.

Human Rights Organization: Prisoners» Legal Services Project Scientist: Chris Beyrer, Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health Expertise: Medical Epidemiology

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«Research suggests that these community social connections are as important for resilience to disaster is as physical material like disaster kits or medical supplies,» explained Ichiro Kawachi, a professor of social epidemiology at Harvard's School of Public Health.

Medical fields like neurology, bio-chemistry, pharmacology, virology, epidemiology, genomics, oncology, etc. are all dependent on the application of evolutionary principles.

If you start digging around in medical journals such as JAMA, the New England Journal of Medicine, Annals of Internal Medicine and the Journal of Epidemiology, you'll find some pretty amazing research linking coffee to a wide number of health benefits.

From the Channing Laboratory, Department of Medicine, Brigham and Women's Hospital and Harvard Medical School, and the Departments of Nutrition and Epidemiology, Harvard School of Public Health — all in Boston (D.M., A.A., M.J.S., W.C.W.); and the Division of Human Nutrition, Wageningen University, and Wageningen Center for Food Sciences — both in Wageningen, the Netherlands (M.B.K.).

Contributors: Members of the writing committee for this paper were Peter Brocklehurst (professor of perinatal epidemiology, National Perinatal Epidemiology Unit (NPEU), University of Oxford; professor of women's health, Institute for Women's Health, University College London (UCL)-RRB-; Pollyanna Hardy (senior trials statistician, NPEU); Jennifer Hollowell (epidemiologist, NPEU); Louise Linsell (senior medical statistician, NPEU); Alison Macfarlane (professor of perinatal health, City University London); Christine McCourt (professor of maternal and child health, City University London); Neil Marlow (professor of neonatal medicine, UCL); Alison Miller (programme director and midwifery lead, Confidential Enquiry into Maternal and Child Health (CEMACH)-RRB-; Mary Newburn (head of research and information, National Childbirth Trust (NCT)-RRB-; Stavros Petrou (health economist, NPEU; professor of health economics, University of Warwick); David Puddicombe (researcher, NPEU); Maggie Redshaw (senior research fellow, social scientist, NPEU); Rachel Rowe (researcher, NPEU); Jane Sandall (professor of social science and women's health, King's College London); Louise Silverton (deputy general secretary, Royal College of Midwives (RCM)-RRB-; and Mary Stewart (research midwife, NPEU; senior lecturer, King's College London, Florence Nightingale School of Nursing andepidemiology, National Perinatal Epidemiology Unit (NPEU), University of Oxford; professor of women's health, Institute for Women's Health, University College London (UCL)-RRB-; Pollyanna Hardy (senior trials statistician, NPEU); Jennifer Hollowell (epidemiologist, NPEU); Louise Linsell (senior medical statistician, NPEU); Alison Macfarlane (professor of perinatal health, City University London); Christine McCourt (professor of maternal and child health, City University London); Neil Marlow (professor of neonatal medicine, UCL); Alison Miller (programme director and midwifery lead, Confidential Enquiry into Maternal and Child Health (CEMACH)-RRB-; Mary Newburn (head of research and information, National Childbirth Trust (NCT)-RRB-; Stavros Petrou (health economist, NPEU; professor of health economics, University of Warwick); David Puddicombe (researcher, NPEU); Maggie Redshaw (senior research fellow, social scientist, NPEU); Rachel Rowe (researcher, NPEU); Jane Sandall (professor of social science and women's health, King's College London); Louise Silverton (deputy general secretary, Royal College of Midwives (RCM)-RRB-; and Mary Stewart (research midwife, NPEU; senior lecturer, King's College London, Florence Nightingale School of Nursing andEpidemiology Unit (NPEU), University of Oxford; professor of women's health, Institute for Women's Health, University College London (UCL)-RRB-; Pollyanna Hardy (senior trials statistician, NPEU); Jennifer Hollowell (epidemiologist, NPEU); Louise Linsell (senior medical statistician, NPEU); Alison Macfarlane (professor of perinatal health, City University London); Christine McCourt (professor of maternal and child health, City University London); Neil Marlow (professor of neonatal medicine, UCL); Alison Miller (programme director and midwifery lead, Confidential Enquiry into Maternal and Child Health (CEMACH)-RRB-; Mary Newburn (head of research and information, National Childbirth Trust (NCT)-RRB-; Stavros Petrou (health economist, NPEU; professor of health economics, University of Warwick); David Puddicombe (researcher, NPEU); Maggie Redshaw (senior research fellow, social scientist, NPEU); Rachel Rowe (researcher, NPEU); Jane Sandall (professor of social science and women's health, King's College London); Louise Silverton (deputy general secretary, Royal College of Midwives (RCM)-RRB-; and Mary Stewart (research midwife, NPEU; senior lecturer, King's College London, Florence Nightingale School of Nursing and Midwifery).

Department of Medicine, Cambridge Health Alliance and Harvard Medical School, Cambridge, Massachusetts; the Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, Division of Maternal - Fetal Medicine, University of North Carolina School of Medicine, and the Department of Statistics and Operations Research, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, North Carolina; the Departments of Medicine, Obstetrics, Gynecology and Reproductive Sciences, and Epidemiology, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania; the Alliance for the Prudent Use of Antibiotics, Boston, Massachusetts; and the Department of Health Care Organization and Policy, School of Public Health, University of Alabama, Birmingham, Alabama.

Department of Epidemiology, CAPHRI School for Public Health and Primary Care, Maastricht University Medical Centre, Maastricht, The Netherlands

From the * Department of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry / Psychology; † Generation R Study Group, Erasmus University Medical Center, Rotterdam, The Netherlands; ‡ Centre for Child and Family Studies, Leiden University, Leiden, The Netherlands; § Departments of Public Health; ‖ Pediatrics; ¶ Epidemiology, Erasmus University Medical Center, Rotterdam, The Netherlands.

Educational webinar on food allergy: Epidemiology, diagnosis and management in the medical home.

Principal researcher on the study, Associate Professor of Epidemiology in Trinity, Dr Lina Zgaga, said: «The key question that this work raises is: «When breastfeeding is so strongly recommended across the board by the medical profession, what causes lower rates of breastfeeding following hospital births?

Corresponding Author: Anne G. Hoen, PhD, Department of Epidemiology, Geisel School of Medicine at Dartmouth, 1 Medical Center Dr, Lebanon, NH 03756 ([email protected]).

We conducted our study in conjunction with the clinical trials and epidemiology research unit, which is an independent organisation funded by the National Medical Research Council.

In addition to clinicians, consumers, health professional educators, insurers, lawyers, ethicists, administrators, and policy makers, the participants included researchers with expertise in epidemiology, public health, sociology, medical anthropology, legal, health policy and clinical research.

We thank Debbie Lawlor (Department of Social Medicine, University of Bristol, UK), Maarike Harro (Dept Public Health, University of Talin, Estonia), Karsten Froberg (Institute of Sports Science and Clinical Biomechanics, University of Southern Denmark), Caroline Fall and Clive Osmond (MRC Environmental Epidemiology Unit, University of Southampton, UK), and Anita Ravelli (Department of Clinical Epidemiology and Biostatistics, Academic Medical Centre Amsterdam, The Netherlands) for kindly providing unpublished data for inclusion in the review.

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.

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.

«Our study group has spent decades studying the health effects of diet quality and composition, and now this new data also suggests overall dietary habits can be important to lower risk of coronary heart disease,» said Eric Rimm, Sc.D., senior author and Associate Professor of Epidemiology and Nutrition, Harvard School of Public Health and Associate Professor of Medicine at the Harvard Medical School.

Many physician scientists involved in clinical trials, epidemiology, and health services research are trained through master's programs completed either during or (more frequently) after medical school, with degrees in clinical epidemiology, biostatistics, public health, or health services and outcomes research.

«Regardless if cognitive impairments precede substance use or vice versa, poorer cognitive functioning negatively impacts daily life and may cause lack of insight into one's substance use as a source of problems, impeding treatment utilization or decreasing the likelihood of effective treatment,» said senior author Deborah Hasin, PhD, Columbia Mailman School of Public Health professor of Epidemiology and in the Department of Psychiatry at Columbia University Medical Center.

«If we can confirm these results in the larger study that we are planning to begin soon, this imaging system may allow us to personalize breast cancer treatment and offer the treatment that is most likely to benefit individual patients,» says Hershman, who is also a professor of medicine and epidemiology at Columbia University Irving Medical Center.

«Over the last several years, we've seen an increase in the number of bacteria — many of which are forms of E. coli — that are resistant to commonly administered antibiotics,» said Leonard Mermel, D.O., medical director of the department of epidemiology and infection control at Rhode Island Hospital.

Nevertheless, says lead study author Isabelle Deltour of the Institute of Cancer Epidemiology in Copenhagen, «The Nordic countries are a good model for studying the association» due to broad early adoption of the technology and thorough medical records.

Researchers from the Medical Research Council Lifecourse Epidemiology Unit (MRC LEU), University of Southampton have shed new light on how grip strength changes across the lifespan.

The researchers analyzed data collected between 2002 and 2011 from patients in the Rochester Epidemiology Project, a National Institutes of Health - funded medical records pool that makes Olmsted County, Minn., the home of Mayo Clinic, one of the few places worldwide where scientists can study virtually an entire geographic population to identify health trends.

The working group headed by Professor Joerg Hasford of the Institute for Medical Information Processing, Biometrics and Epidemiology at LMU Munich is responsible for the methodology, data coordination and statistical evaluation of the Pre-POINT and Pre-POINTearly studies.

Enthusiasts say HRT can stave off heart disease and osteoporosis without increasing the risk of breast cancer, but Tom Meade, director of the MRC's Epidemiology and Medical Care Unit in London and chief architect of the HRT trial, says the long - term effects of HRT are largely unknown.

«Added sugars exert deleterious health effects beyond empty calories,» agreed Frank Hu, who studies nutrition and epidemiology at Harvard Medical School in Boston and who also spoke.

Carmel Medical Center Department of Community Medicine and Epidemiology, Clalit National Personalized Medicine Program, Haifa 34362, Israel.

In this study, Dr Deborah Hasin, Professor of Epidemiology at Columbia University Medical Center, New York, USA and colleagues examined the relationship between the legalisation of medical marijuana and adolescent marijuana use by analysing national «Monitoring the Future» survey data * from over one million students in the 8th, 10th, and 12th grades (aged 13 - 18) between 1991 and 2014 — a period when 21 contiguous states passed laws allowing marijuana use for medical puMedical Center, New York, USA and colleagues examined the relationship between the legalisation of medical marijuana and adolescent marijuana use by analysing national «Monitoring the Future» survey data * from over one million students in the 8th, 10th, and 12th grades (aged 13 - 18) between 1991 and 2014 — a period when 21 contiguous states passed laws allowing marijuana use for medical pumedical marijuana and adolescent marijuana use by analysing national «Monitoring the Future» survey data * from over one million students in the 8th, 10th, and 12th grades (aged 13 - 18) between 1991 and 2014 — a period when 21 contiguous states passed laws allowing marijuana use for medical pumedical purposes.

«The higher costs associated with obesity are believed to be largely due to managing comorbid medical conditions linked to obesity, such as diabetes,» said lead study author Hilal Maradit - Kremers, MD, an associate professor of epidemiology at Mayo Clinic in Rochester, Minn..

I taught genetics (becoming the chief of medical genetics), biochemistry, medicine, and epidemiology, which again underscores an obvious addiction to experiences that push intellectual depth and breadth.

Women in this study were identified using the Rochester Epidemiology Project, a medical records database that includes the complete inpatient and outpatient records of all medical providers in Olmsted County, Minnesota.

The Mayo study used the Rochester Epidemiology Project medical records database to identify all neurologist - confirmed Parkinson's cases from January 1976 through December 2013 among Olmsted County, Minn., residents.

Adrian Grant, director of the Perinatal Trials Service at the National Perinatal Epidemiology Unit in Oxford, one of the two coordinating centres for the trial, says such a study will help to prevent medical and surgical methods from being introduced without thorough testing.

«The prevalence of comorbidities is higher in older lung cancer patients than patients who are younger,» said K.M. Monirul Islam, M.D., Ph.D., an assistant professor in the department of epidemiology at the University of Nebraska Medical Center College of Public Health.

Researchers from the Detroit Medical Center (DMC), a seven - hospital system in southeastern Michigan, conducted a large study to understand the epidemiology of CDI readmissions, analyzing 51,353 all - cause discharges between January 1 and December 31, 2012.

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.

Researchers at the Medical Research Council Lifecourse Epidemiology Unit, University of Southampton, undertook an analysis of the UK Clinical Practice Research Datalink database and calculated the risk of an individual experiencing a fracture.

The researchers used the Rochester Epidemiology Project medical records database, brain function testing at ages 8 - 12 or 15 - 20, and parent reports to assess behavior and brain function.

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«We know quite a lot about the natural history of the HPV infection of the cervix,» says Maura Gillison, a professor of internal medicine and epidemiology at The Ohio State University Medical Center.

«I would recommend consuming folate - rich foods such as green leafy vegetables, grains, and fruits, and zinc - rich products such as oysters and meat,» says Régine Steegers - Theunissen, associate professor of epidemiology and obstetrics at the University Medical Center in Nijmegen in the Netherlands.

«Prenatal visits may present a good opportunity for screening and brief intervention regarding tobacco and particularly alcohol use,» noted co-author Deborah Hasin, PhD, professor of Epidemiology at the Mailman School of Public Health and in the Department of Psychiatry at Columbia University Medical Center.