Sentences with phrase «public health researchers say»

Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health researchers say a new candidate vaccine against respiratory syncytial virus (RSV) made with a weakened version of the virus shows great promise at fighting the disease, the leading cause of hospitalization for children under the age of one in the U.S.

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«In the early days of insurance, [companies] looked at height as an indication of survival,» said David Batty, an epidemiology and public health researcher at the University College London, who was not involved in the study.

«I have great respect for the researchers at Harborview and think this was a good study, and was great to see somebody providing data on youth younger than high school age,» said Dawn Comstock, an epidemiologist at the Colorado School of Public Health who has studied extensively sports injuries at the high school level.

For the people of Hoosick Falls who are trying to make sense of what the high levels of PFOA in the bloodstream means, the fact sheet doesn't convey the weight of the health risks detailed in published studies, said Laurel Schaider, an environmental chemist and public health researcher at the Silent Springs Institute, which studies the links between environmental contamination and human health.

«Dr. Shah is a nationally recognized medical researcher and practitioner whose commitment to reshaping our public health system will serve the people of New York well,» Governor Cuomo said.

The AGIES panel's «perception was flavored by its public - health perspective on scientific arguments», says Grant McFadden, a poxvirus researcher at the University of Florida in Gainesville and a member of the scientific review panel.

«There might not be a huge burden of disease from heat - related illness right now in your community,» says Jeremy Hess, an emergency medicine physician and public health researcher at the University of Washington in Seattle.

«Krokodil is a last resort for people who can't get heroin or other injected drugs,» says Russian public - health researcher Kirill Danishevskiy.

UQ School of Public Health researcher Dr Mark Jones said women over 75 faced a 33 per cent higher chance of developing diabetes if they were taking statins.

The researchers say public health authorities must address people's concerns and debunk unscientific claims if they are to ensure a vaccine is effective.

«Our corrected calculations show that women just past 65, when current guidelines state that screenings can stop for many women, have the highest rate of cervical cancer,» says the study's lead author, Anne F. Rositch, Ph.D., M.S.P.H., an assistant professor of epidemiology and public health at the University of Maryland School of Medicine and a researcher at the University of Maryland Marlene and Stewart Greenebaum Cancer Center.

«Funders don't control the composition of the committee, and they don't meet with the committee,» says Harvard public - health researcher Marie McCormick, who chaired the IOM vaccine - safety committee in question.

The word gap is not just an educational issue — it is one of the most important public health problems, the researchers said.

In a report of their findings, published in the December issue of the American Journal of Public Health, the researchers say the program was designed to prevent suffering at a time when adolescent depression rates are on the rise and many believe awareness, early recognition and effective therapies can lead to better outcomes.

«In participating schools, ADAP is delivered as part of the standard health education curriculum, which facilitates its sustainability,» says Holly Wilcox, Ph.D., M.A., associate professor at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health and the researcher who oversaw the study on the effectiveness of the ADAP currihealth education curriculum, which facilitates its sustainability,» says Holly Wilcox, Ph.D., M.A., associate professor at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health and the researcher who oversaw the study on the effectiveness of the ADAP curriHealth and the researcher who oversaw the study on the effectiveness of the ADAP curriculum.

Researchers surveyed 66 head soccer and basketball coaches from 15 Oregon high schools and found that only 21 percent of the coaches were using an injury prevention program, and less than 10 percent were using the program exactly as designed, said the study's lead author, Marc Norcross, an assistant professor of exercise and sport science in OSU's College of Public Health and Human Sciences.

«The biggest source of morbidity and mortality in young people in industrialized countries isn't medical disease but problems with behavior and emotion,» says Ronald Dahl, a researcher at the University of California, Berkeley's School of Public Health.

Exposure to pollution during the second trimester of pregnancy in particular raises the risk of harm to a child's lungs, underlining the multiple public health benefits of policies to reduce exposure to air pollution, say researchers.

The work highlights «a major public health issue,» says Jonathan Patz, a public health researcher at the University of Wisconsin, Madison, who not involved with the research.

Writing today in Public Health Reviews, the researchers say that there is now no scientific reason for an upper limit and call on the United Kingdom and other countries to fortify flour with folic acid to reduce the incidence of spina bifida and related disorders.

Levels are going down over the past 30 years, but all of us still have levels in our bodies,» said lead author Melissa Perry, a professor and researcher at George Washington University's Milken Institute School of Public Health.

But even before all the data were in, the researchers began to suspect that their assumptions were wrong, says lead study author Kathryn Whetten, director of the Center for Public Health Policy at the Duke Global Health Institute in Durham, N.C. «The stereotype that many of us in the U.S. and Europe have of an institution is not what is being set up in less wealthy nations,» Whetten says.

«No one knew how retailers would deal with the added costs of the tax,» said study lead author Jennifer Falbe, a UC Berkeley postdoctoral researcher in public health nutrition.

«The evidence is clear that there would be consequences if we lowered the legal drinking age,» said lead researcher William DeJong, Ph.D., of Boston University School of Public Health.

«The breadth and growth of predatory journals are astonishing and concerning,» says Jocalyn Clark, a public health researcher at the University of Toronto in Canada, and a veteran of scientific training and publishing in the developing world.

«This study suggests a link between PTSD and cardiovascular health,» said lead researcher Viola Vaccarino, M.D., Ph.D., professor in the department of medicine at Emory University and chair of the department of epidemiology at the Rollins School of Public Hhealth,» said lead researcher Viola Vaccarino, M.D., Ph.D., professor in the department of medicine at Emory University and chair of the department of epidemiology at the Rollins School of Public HealthHealth.

Nowadays, says Julie Willems Van Dijk, a researcher at the University of Wisconsin Population Health Institute who helps county leaders figure out what to do with the data, public health officials also monitor quality of life and trends in chronic, noncommunicative disorders, such as depression, diabetes and heart diHealth Institute who helps county leaders figure out what to do with the data, public health officials also monitor quality of life and trends in chronic, noncommunicative disorders, such as depression, diabetes and heart dihealth officials also monitor quality of life and trends in chronic, noncommunicative disorders, such as depression, diabetes and heart disease.

It's also possible that microfluidic dissection is simply not a good way to measure the effect of caloric restriction, says Rozalyn Anderson, a researcher at the University of Wisconsin School of Medicine and Public Health in Madison who studies aging and caloric restriction.

Researcher Eduardo Simoes says if more public health agencies adopted this tool to identify top health risks associated with chronic diseases among their specific populations, limited funding for prevention efforts could be proportionately allocated.

«As researchers, increasing awareness of short sleep and its consequences remains a critically important task to improve public health,» said Basner.

The beauty of the model, say the researchers, is that it is simple to implement, so public health officials and non-mathematicians could easily use it.

The tool itself, which projects a worse - case scenario of 14,176 Ebola cases in Guinea, Liberia and Sierra Leone by October 26, is currently built on a model developed by a Toronto - based team of medical and public health researchers, although HealthMap may try other methods down the road, says John Brownstein, HealthMap co-founder and an associate professor of pediatrics at Harvard Medical School.

«The public health sector has been absent from this debate,» said Nadia Steinzor, a researcher on the Oil and Gas Accountability Project at the environmental nonprofit, Earthworks.

«Our research revealed that retirement was associated with positive lifestyle changes,» said lead researcher Dr Melody Ding, Senior Research Fellow at the University's School of Public Health.

The results of the new study are notable because positive effects of an intervention, especially one that aims to improve self - regulation and academic achievement, can be difficult for researchers to find, said McClelland, the Katherine E. Smith Healthy Children and Families Professor in the College of Public Health and Human Sciences.

«There's growing recognition that what happens to you as a child is carried with you throughout life,» said Dr. Michel H. Boudreaux, lead researcher and assistant professor in the Department of Health Services Administration at the University of Maryland School of Public Health.

School of Public Health researcher Akilew Adane said this and other maternal health research added to the evidence that parents and clinicians should think of pre-pregnancy health across the entire reproductive stage of women's lives, «not just the year before starting a family.&Health researcher Akilew Adane said this and other maternal health research added to the evidence that parents and clinicians should think of pre-pregnancy health across the entire reproductive stage of women's lives, «not just the year before starting a family.&health research added to the evidence that parents and clinicians should think of pre-pregnancy health across the entire reproductive stage of women's lives, «not just the year before starting a family.&health across the entire reproductive stage of women's lives, «not just the year before starting a family.»

«This is the very first time researchers have looked at the proportions of mutations within different cancer types and assigned them to these three factors,» said lead author Cristian Tomasetti, assistant professor of biostatistics at the Johns Hopkins Kimmel Cancer Center and the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, referring to heredity, environmental and random factors.

«For the first time, our analyses provide state - specific costs for COPD, which provide state public health practitioners with estimates of the economic burden of COPD within their borders and illustrates the potential medical and absenteeism costs savings to states through implementing state level programs that are designed to prevent the onset of COPD,» says Earl Ford, MD, researcher with the Division of Population Healthhealth practitioners with estimates of the economic burden of COPD within their borders and illustrates the potential medical and absenteeism costs savings to states through implementing state level programs that are designed to prevent the onset of COPD,» says Earl Ford, MD, researcher with the Division of Population HealthHealth, CDC.

«Our interactive application,» the researchers say, «provides a flexible tool for informing public health policy via a rigorous cost - benefit analysis of available options.»

«Many reports have been written on the contamination of air and water by volatile organic compounds near natural - gas well sites,» said Verner, who is also a researcher at the Public Health Research Institute.

They also tried to get samples from countries that have had human MERS cases, such as Saudi Arabia and Qatar, says Marion Koopmans, an infectious disease researcher at the National Institute of Public Health and the Environment in the Netherlands and one of the authors of the paper.

«We found that diet was indeed associated with diabetes independent of weight loss and increased physical activity,» said lead researcher Sylvia Ley, PhD, a post-doctoral fellow at the Harvard School of Public Health.

«We know that sleep is important for cardiovascular health and many studies have linked poor or insufficient sleep with increased risk factors for cardiovascular - related diseases,» said Xiang Gao, MD, PhD, a researcher in the Channing Division of Network Medicine at BWH and Harvard School of Public Health and senior author of this health and many studies have linked poor or insufficient sleep with increased risk factors for cardiovascular - related diseases,» said Xiang Gao, MD, PhD, a researcher in the Channing Division of Network Medicine at BWH and Harvard School of Public Health and senior author of this Health and senior author of this study.

This is worrisome because this condition can progress to hypertension, which in turn can cause heart disease and premature death,» says O'Loughlin, a researcher at the CRCHUM and professor in the School of Public Health, University of Montreal.

But this study, combined with others, strongly suggests that these no - goodniks could well contribute to sparking the disease, says James Yager, a cancer researcher at the Johns Hopkins School of Public Health in Baltimore.

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«These tweets provide real - time information that researchers can use to understand transgender individuals» health and wellbeing,» said Krueger, a doctoral student in the UCLA Fielding School of Public Hhealth and wellbeing,» said Krueger, a doctoral student in the UCLA Fielding School of Public HealthHealth.

The ability to predict the need for referrals stems from an unprecedented and ever - increasing availability of diverse data sources and has the potential to improve health services delivery and health system performance, said Paul K. Halverson, founding dean of the Richard M. Fairbanks School of Public Health at IUPUI and one of the project's researhealth services delivery and health system performance, said Paul K. Halverson, founding dean of the Richard M. Fairbanks School of Public Health at IUPUI and one of the project's researhealth system performance, said Paul K. Halverson, founding dean of the Richard M. Fairbanks School of Public Health at IUPUI and one of the project's researHealth at IUPUI and one of the project's researchers.

«This may have important public health implications, since low testosterone levels in young boys can negatively impact reproductive development, and in middle age can impair sexual function, libido, energy, cognitive function and bone health in men and women,» one researcher said.