Sentences with word «epidemiologist»

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

Professor Robyn McDermott, a medical epidemiologist with experience as a primary care doctor in remote areas.

Fatal heart attacks that recently struck two people after they were vaccinated against smallpox were probably unfortunate coincidences, not adverse consequences of vaccination, say epidemiologists who base their conclusion on death records from the 1940s.

Sometimes a disease can be more prevalent in one spot than another due to random fluctuations, so the two researchers are working with epidemiologists who are using geographic software programs to distinguish true clusters from artifacts.

The British government stepped up its control measures after it received a grim warning from epidemiologists in late March.

The new research, published on 9 July in PLOS ONE, was led by epidemiologist John Ioannidis of Stanford University in Palo Alto, California, with analysis of Elsevier's Scopus database by colleagues Kevin Boyack and Richard Klavans at SciTech Strategies.

Harvard University epidemiologist Marc Lipsitch, among others, has pushed for assessments that would weigh benefits against the number of people who could die in a potential humanmade flu pandemic.

The vaccine has also been shown to be highly effective in HIV - exposed children and disease reductions have been observed in both HIV - infected and uninfected children,» said Dr Claire von Mollendorf, a medical epidemiologist from the NICD.

The vaccine, which consists of a virus that has been killed with chemicals or ultraviolet light, offers a good degree of protection, says Martin Hugh - Jones, a veterinary epidemiologist at Louisiana State University in Baton Rouge.

«You would need an army of epidemiologists for that.»

In the current study, Zhang and her colleagues, including Esther John, Ph.D., senior cancer epidemiologist at the Cancer Prevention Institute of California, analyzed data on 6,235 American and Canadian breast cancer patients from the Breast Cancer Family Registry, a National Cancer Institute - funded program that has collected clinical and questionnaire data on enrolled participants and their families since 1995.

Discover senior editor John Langone interviewed more than a dozen leading epidemiologists in the United States, Britain, and France and consulted such publications as The Journal of the American Medical Association and The Lancet.

Conley says she mentioned the idea that scientists shouldn't worry about getting sick if they encounter Earth organisms on Mars to a November meeting of epidemiologists who study the risks of Earth - based pandemics.

«This is the first study of its kind designed to test the effects of a diet on the decline of cognitive abilities among a large group of individuals 65 to 84 years old who currently do not have cognitive impairment,» says Martha Clare Morris, ScD, a nutritional epidemiologist at Rush and principal investigator of the study.

I am an accomplished clinical epidemiologist with strong interpersonal, oral and written communication skills, who has developed, managed and evaluated multi-disciplinary healthcare and scientific programs.

Detailed studies have been carried out of the disease in the UK population of flatcoats, involving diplomate clinicians, as well as epidemiologists and statisticians.

«Tap water is safe for drinking, but not for irrigating your nose,» said Dr. Raoult Ratard, Louisiana state epidemiologist in a statement.

«It wanes, and it wanes more quickly than we expected,» says CDC epidemiologist Stacey Martin.

«People do physically adapt,» says study author Joel Schwartz, an environmental epidemiologist at Harvard University.

And from there the virus could spread further still, says Jim Le Duc, a virologist and epidemiologist working for the WHO.

«The composite picture is, there is a reproducibility problem,» says epidemiologist John Ioannidis of Stanford University in Palo Alto, California, an adviser to the project whose attention - getting analyses have argued that biomedical research suffers from systemic flaws.

The Heidelberg epidemiologists now plan to extend their investigation to other types of tumor.

«Dr. Gillman is an accomplished child health epidemiologist with extensive experience in pregnancy and birth cohort research.

First proposed by British epidemiologist Dr David Strachan in 1989, the hygiene hypothesis asserts that a lack of exposure to bacteria during early childhood increases the chances of developing allergies.

Protecting people is the most important issue, according to veterinary epidemiologist Dr. Casey Barton Behravesh, leader of the CDC outbreak response team.

Harvard University genetic epidemiologist Peter Kraft says the study adds to others in the last 3 years that have dampened hopes that if researchers could find the «missing heritability,» or all the genes that raise the risk of a particular disease, then genetic tests could help predict which patients will get sick.

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.

And, judging by comments in the press, other epidemiologists don't seem to give it much credence either.

«I believe their data and I think they have a very strong argument,» says molecular epidemiologist Steven Meshnick of the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill.

Those are some pretty big ifs, says Harvard epidemiologist Marc Lipsitch.

In particular, we were interested in inflammatory bowel disease which has previously been associated with higher risk of acquiring this infection and obesity, which has never been examined,» explained corresponding author Nahid Bhadelia, MD, MALD, associate hospital epidemiologist at BMC and assistant professor of medicine at BUSM.

In research published in 2013, Stanford University epidemiologist David Rehkopf and his colleagues wanted to find out why.

• Dr David Chae, a social epidemiologist from the University of Maryland's school of public health, whose research suggests that multiple levels of racism, including interpersonal experiences of racial discrimination and the internalisation of negative racial bias, may work together to accelerate ageing among African - American men, and

«It's likely that some of the behaviors that contribute to obesity, like a sedentary lifestyle and poor diet, like high consumption of red and processed meat, and a low consumption of milk products, lead to [colorectal cancer],» says Rebecca Siegel, MPH, lead epidemiologist on the study.

«This suggests that the harmful effects of chlorpyrifos are stronger among boys, which indicates that perhaps boys are more vulnerable to this type of exposure,» said Virginia Rauh, a perinatal epidemiologist at Columbia University and co-author of the study published in July.

This was at least partly due to Alice Stewart, whose conclusions were originally rejected by by some good epidemiologists such as Sir Richard Doll.

Infectious disease epidemiologist specializing in the intersection between mathematical models of disease transmission and observational methods.

On September 8, 2014, Rollo was chosen for a field epidemiologist position for the TAHC.

The British epidemiologists Richard Wilkinson and Kate Pickett have been tracking global trends that show inequality is linked to the higher incidence of ill - health for everyone, not just for the poorest among us.

Lee is a psychiatric epidemiologist with research interests in global autism, autism surveillance, and neurodevelopmental disorders.

Harvard Medical School epidemiologists also discovered that women with shorter - than - average telomeres are 12 times more likely to develop precursors to dementia [source: Scientific American Mind].

That might cover studies on whether there are genetic changes that would allow Ebola to be transmitted through airborne particles, said epidemiologist Michael Osterholm of the University of Minnesota, something that is crucial for public health officials to know, he said, but which should not be made public.

Epidemiologists provide epidemiological and data management support to clinical environments through which they are required to manage research in order to manage disease control.

The increased risk of death from any cause holds true whether the depression immediately follows the heart disease diagnosis or occurs even years later, according to Heidi May, PhD, a cardiovascular epidemiologist at Intermountain Medical Center Heart Institute and the study's lead author.

«To our knowledge, this is the first study concluding a severe and general decrease in sperm concentration and morphology at the scale of a whole country over a substantial period,» wrote environmental health epidemiologist Dr Joelle Le Moal, and author of the report.

Answer: Fact, CDC doctors and epidemiologists first located the virus among the bath house patrons in California.

Rollo will continue to perform a dual role until the field epidemiologist position can be filled.

It appears that the urban legend about urine being sterile has its roots in the 1950s, Hilt says, when epidemiologist Edward Kass was looking for a way to screen patients for urinary tract infections before surgery.