Sentences with phrase «by epidemiologist»

A team led by epidemiologist Larry Clark of the Arizona Cancer Center in Tucson had observed lower rates of skin cancer among people with high levels of selenium.

The team, led by epidemiologist Andrew Haines at the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, modelled a number of scenarios for reducing greenhouse gases.

Boslough accepts the fatality estimates for climate change (the WHO's estimate was made for the agency by epidemiologist Tony McMichael, of the Australian National University's National Center for Epidemiology and Population Health) as well as those for asteroid impacts, the latter of which are based lately on work by Harris.

Around 500 people have died in the past 30 years after using benfluorex, according to a study by epidemiologist Catherine Hill of the Institute Gustave - Roussy and announced by AFSSAPS on 16 November.

An international team of researchers led by epidemiologist Ian Roberts of the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine recently tested an inexpensive drug called tranexamic acid (TXA) in a trial involving more than 20,000 trauma cases in 40 countries.

A second study, led by epidemiologist Kim Harley of U.C. Berkeley, examined the relationship between PBDEs and fertility in 223 California women.

Culyba and her CHOP co-authors collaborated with researchers from the Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania, led by epidemiologist Charles C. Branas, Ph.D., the senior author and director of the Penn Injury Science Center.

A team led by epidemiologist Paul Muntner of Tulane University analyzed health surveys of Americans aged 8 to 17 and found that systolic (peak) blood pressure has risen an average of 1.4 points since 1988 — 1994.

Ian Lipkin of Columbia University, a well - known virologist who probes links between microbial infections and neuropsychiatric disorders, is being sued, along with the university, by epidemiologist Mady Hornig, his long - term collaborator.

If it were, we would all be citing peer reviewed numbers by an epidemiologist.

As defined by epidemiologists, risk refers to the probability that an outcome will occur given the presence of a particular factor or set of factors.

So, in a paper published today in Science, Atkinson, Gray and their colleagues address this using the type of geography - based computer modeling normally used by epidemiologists to track the spread of disease1.

Undetected transmission A major technique used by epidemiologists to slow spread and curb Ebola outbreaks is contact tracing.

Data collected during a long - term health study provides additional evidence for a link between increased risk of cancer in individuals with advanced gum disease, according to a new collaborative study led by epidemiologists Dominique Michaud at Tufts University School of Medicine and Elizabeth Platz of the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health and Kimmel Cancer Center.

That would require considerable further work by epidemiologists and infectious disease specialists.

According to a study by epidemiologists at University College London, relationship problems can up your risk of having a heart attack by 34 %.

And what followed was a truly unconventional effort by epidemiologists to stop a new Ebola outbreak.

Not exact matches

«We are saddened by the events that have affected this mother and her newborn,» Dr. Sarah Park, Hawaii state epidemiologist, said in the statement.

Galea, a physician and epidemiologist by training, is quick - to - the - point and unflinching — even brutal, at times, in his directness, particularly in the chapterettes on firearms, substance abuse, and incarceration.

It will now be easier for hospitals, physicians, midwives, and epidemiologists to sort out the stats and outcomes by place of birth, intended, and actual.

Editor's Note: This article was reviewed by Richard Olney, medical epidemiologist at the National Center on Birth Defects and Developmental Disabilities.

A handful of Democrats are facing off to take on Perry, including epidemiologist Eric Ding and former Obama administration aide Shavonnia Corbin - Johnson, who has also been endorsed by EMILY's List.

He is an epidemiologist by training and an acclaimed public health researcher, whose work has focused on driving improvements in data quality to support changes in health care.

In 1980, he and his late brother Frank C. Garland, also an epidemiologist, published an influential paper that posited vitamin D (produced by the body through exposure to sunshine) and calcium (which vitamin D helps the body absorb) together reduced the risk of colon cancer.

The number that epidemiologists stand by is called R0 or «R nought.»

Dana Loomis, editor of OEM and an epidemiologist at the University of Nebraska Medical Center in Omaha, says, «I was completely surprised» by the letter, especially since OEM does not have and never had any DEMS paper under consideration.

The film presents a fictional virus, a construct devised by Columbia University epidemiologist Ian Lipkin, vectoring its way across the planet, killing millions of the fecklessly unprepared and leaving social havoc and innumerable bodies in its wake.

Worries about such virus exposure, however, have been echoed by more than a half dozen top vaccine experts and epidemiologists in interviews with Scientific American.

The first hint of nicotine's curious benefits came from a study published in 1966 by Harold Kahn, an epidemiologist at the National Institutes of Health.

Epidemiologists are shaken by MERS's apparent affinity for spreading in hospitals.

Part sci - fi thriller, part love story, Perfect Sense follows an improbable couple — a cocksure chef (played by Ewan McGregor) and a prickly epidemiologist (Eva Green)-- who fall for each other just as the disease strikes.

But the episode makes epidemiologists fear there could be undiscovered milder cases of infection by the virus, perhaps in younger people with no additional health problems, allowing the MERS virus to evolve adaptations that will help it spread between humans.

That is because «the human kidney is made, by design, to vary the accretion of salt based on the amount you take in,» explains Michael Alderman, an epidemiologist at the Albert Einstein College of Medicine and former president of the International Society of Hypertension.

Frank Gilliland, an environmental epidemiologist at the University of Southern California in Los Angeles, became intrigued when laboratory studies suggested that certain pollutants in the environment might function as «obesogens,» contributing to weight gain by mimicking or disrupting the action of hormones, or having other effects.

A fundamental error, according to several epidemiologists, is that Tsuda compared the results of the Fukushima survey, which used advanced ultrasound devices that detect otherwise unnoticeable growths, with the roughly three cases of thyroid cancer per million found by traditional clinical examinations of patients who have lumps or symptoms.

In ongoing work, a team led by Harvard nutritional epidemiologist Jorge Chavarro has looked at the association between yogurt intake and semen quality in men.

Written by Institute Associate Sonia L. Canzater, JD, MPH and Jeffrey S. Crowley, MPH, program director of infectious disease initiatives and distinguished scholar at the O'Neill Institute, the report was developed following an expert consultation held in Washington, DC, in September 2016 with diverse stakeholders, including hepatitis C medical and non-medical providers, patient advocates, epidemiologists, and federal hepatitis C policy and program staff.

But H1N1 changed as it spread, and by the time it reached Japan it was mild, killing mostly the immunocompromised elderly, says Hiroshi Nishiura, an epidemiologist at the Japan Science and Technology Agency.

There are nine criteria used to determine a causal relationship in disease, developed in the context of smoking and lung cancer in 1965 by British epidemiologist Sir Austin Bradford Hill.

Research by Saad Omer, an epidemiologist at the Emory Vaccine Center in Atlanta, Georgia, points out similar abuses: he and his colleagues have found that medical exemptions are up to six times more common in states that have lax medical - exemption requirements or don't allow philosophical exemptions.

Epidemiologist Devra Davis of the University of Pittsburgh Cancer Institute and her colleagues analyzed the figures, drawn from statistics compiled by the U.S. National Center for Health Statistics and the Japanese Vital Statistics Bureau.

David Ozonoff, an epidemiologist at the Boston University School of Public Health, says that the reports «smear» the scientists involved in pandemic planning by «insinuating» that they would have offered different advice had they not had a relationship with drug companies.

A team led by David Melzer, an epidemiologist and physician at the Peninsula Medical School, in Exeter, U.K. examined data from the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention's National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey, a representative sample of the general population.

A team led by Bruno Gryseels, an epidemiologist from the University of Leiden in the Netherlands, reported poor results with praziquantel in 1992.

He and his Hutch team wrote up the study with researchers in Kenya and with University of Washington colleagues led by physician and epidemiologist Dr. Scott McClelland, who is first author on the paper.

The Bradford - Hill criteria were devised in 1965 by British epidemiologist and statistician Sir Austin Bradford Hill to assess causality when only correlational data are available.

Case numbers, of course, are affected by the numbers of samples tested and the capability of the country's labs, but epidemiologists listen to the best data they have at the moment, and that's what the numbers are saying right now.

The study, led by Arnold School exercise scientist and epidemiologist Edward Archer, has demonstrated significant limitations in the measurement protocols used in the National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey (NHANES).

Until a smaller study on sex mismatches by the same Dutch team six years ago, no one had thought to look at the pregnancy history of red blood cell donors, says Rutger Middelburg, an epidemiologist with Sanquin Research in the Netherlands, who helped lead that pilot work and the study published Tuesday.

This survey of officials who oversee emergency preparedness in US States and counties — led by Vic Spain, DVM, PhD, veterinary epidemiologist for the American Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals (ASPCA)-- investigated which American communities are prepared to deal with the animal victims of an emergency and how and where emergency response planning can be improved.