Sentences with phrase «epidemiologist on»

«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.

The study points to a specific need for investments to help IPV victims avoid tobacco, adds first author Rishi Caleyachetty, MBBS, PhD, an epidemiologist on a Fulbright Scholarship at Columbia's Mailman School of Public Health when he wrote the paper.

We could pick through those studies» respective strengths and weaknesses, talk about why we'll never have a «gold - standard» randomized controlled trial (because women will never participate in a study that makes birth choices for them), and I could quote a real epidemiologist on why determining the precise risk of home birth in the United States is nearly impossible.

Not exact matches

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.

Until relatively recently in human history, malaria was found on every continent except Antarctica, according to Dr. David Brandling - Bennett, an epidemiologist and the former director of the malaria strategy program at the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation.

Shira Shafir, a UCLA epidemiologist brought in to run part of Toms» giving department, has a plaque on her desk with a quote often attributed to Einstein: «If we knew what we were doing, it wouldn't be called research.»

WA Health's epidemiologist, Dr Gary Dowse, announced the latest case on Wednesday, saying he expected more could arise.

Philip also had the support of Lone Wolf school superintendent James Sutherland and of Paul Zenker, an epidemiologist for the state of Oklahoma, who assured Lone Wolf residents that Philip didn't pose a danger on the court.

«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.

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

However, I do recall a few epidemiologists pointing out the flaws in * your * criticisms when you wrote a post about it on Science Based Medicine.

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.

For more on whooping cough, what it is and what can be done about it, WAMC's Brian Shields spoke with Dr. Thomas Clark, a medical epidemiologist with the CDC, who gave insight into why Pertussis has become such a problem this year.

The State Epidemiologist, Dr David Karatu, made the disclosure on Thursday in Gombe at the State Emergency Rapid Response Committee review meeting on the committee success and anticipation.

Eventually, she'd like to strike out on her own and become an independent investigator, continuing to study HIV transmission while helping mathematical modelers and epidemiologists cooperate better.

Usually, state health departments rely on standard questionnaires to find a common culprit for a cluster of reported illnesses, says Samuel Crowe, an epidemiologist at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention in Atlanta, who led the study.

But ««there is broad support for the idea of oversight and review and a rigorous focus on the highest priority science with our precious research dollars,» says Johns Hopkins University epidemiologist Chris Beyrer, president of the International AIDS Society.

«There are cases of that,» admits Scott McEwen, a University of Guelph veterinary epidemiologist who advises the Canadian government on the public - health implications of livestock antibiotics.

But I also recognize that they are only able to secure a very small supply of vaccine and there are many competing priorities,» says Andrew Azman, an epidemiologist at Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health in Baltimore, Maryland, who in the last month has been part of a team advising WHO on how to allocate the cholera vaccine in Yemen.

The announcement comes amid a debate over the use of experimental drugs in the outbreak: a leading epidemiologist hopes the announcement will shift international focus toward relying on basic public health measures to control the disease.

ASU mathematical epidemiologist Carlos Castillo - Chavez of the School of Human Evolution and Social Change in the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences says, «When we compared the temporal patterns in these data to the patterns in the number of Ebola - related news stories that ran on major news networks, we found that the peaks and valleys in both almost exactly matched.

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.

Beijing had imposed special restrictions on air pollutants, providing a rare opportunity for researchers to do relatively controlled experiments, says David Rich, an environmental epidemiologist at the University of Rochester in New York.

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.

The lone dissenter on the vote was Patricia Quinlisk, state epidemiologist and medical director of the Iowa Department of Public Health.

Others on the team include a veterinary epidemiologist and an economist from Kansas State University, and a disease spread model designer.

Understanding what combination of mutations could transform H5N1 into a human pandemic virus gives epidemiologists a leg up on preparing countermeasures; they can, for example, test existing vaccines against the new strain.

«It is inappropriate to compare the data from the Fukushima screening program with cancer registry data from the rest of Japan where there is, in general, no such large - scale screening,» Richard Wakeford, an epidemiologist at the University of Manchester in the United Kingdom, wrote on behalf of 11 members of a WHO expert working group on Fukushima health consequences.

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.

This week on the podcast, Harvard epidemiologist Walter Willett talks about the connection between diet and fertility as well as other nutrition and health relationships such as the links between diet and cancer.

Marc Lipsitch, an epidemiologist at Harvard School of Public Health, says that the WHO's advice on the pandemic has been sound, and has reflected the state of scientific opinion.

«There are no new data presented here on complications or hospitalizations that we did not already know of,» says epidemiologist Peter Doshi of the University of Maryland School of Pharmacy in Baltimore, a critic of Roche and part of the Cochrane group that reviewed Tamiflu studies.

D.A. Henderson, an epidemiologist who helped lead the program that eradicated smallpox and has advised the U.S. government on several other infectious diseases, says the threat of Zika to the United States does not warrant the degree of fear and concern that it has triggered.

Marine epidemiologist Michael Sweet of the Newcastle Institute for Research on Sustainability in England and his coworkers describe their findings August 1 in PLOS ONE.

«There has been concern in the healthcare community about the impact of routine, daily chlorhexidine (CHG) bathing on fostering the spread of bacteria resistant to this agent,» said David Warren, MD, MPH, lead author of the study and Associate Professor of Medicine in the Division of Infectious Diseases at Washington University School of Medicine and Hospital Epidemiologist at Barnes - Jewish Hospital in St. Louis.

«This provides very compelling evidence that every country that experiences a large Zika outbreak is likely to see devastating outcomes on fetuses and infants,» says CDC epidemiologist Peggy Honein.

But some of these drugs are only effective after several months, and their use is «based on very weak evidence,» Niklas Långström, a psychiatric epidemiologist at KI, said at the press conference.

OSU public health epidemiologist Michelle Odden, senior author on the study and the lead author on the earlier gait - speed research, explained how high blood pressure might actually help in some cases.

«At least a dozen studies have shown the effects of phthalates on human reproduction,» says University of Rochester epidemiologist and biostatistician Shanna Swan, the lead author of a much - cited study that showed higher exposure to some phthalates in mothers correlates with reduced «anogenital distance» in newborn boys.

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.

For a year and a half, with the help of some bright Harvard University undergrads, the two epidemiologists had been working hard on a massive study about the global toll of diseases.

Previous research has linked severe weather conditions with epidemics of asthma; however, surprisingly little research has been conducted on the phenomenon, says respiratory physician and epidemiologist Guy Marks of the University of Sydney in Australia.

«Obstetricians and midwives should consider pregnancies for immigrants from these regions as high risk,» said Dr. Marcelo Urquia, lead author and an epidemiologist at the Centre for Research on Inner City Health of St. Michael's Hospital.

Roberta Ness, a widely published epidemiologist and a less widely published author of children's books, lets us in on a secret common to both types of writing in Writing Science: The Story's the Thing.

In her own studies, the epidemiologist has been focusing on lifetime physical activity trends in men and women up to 85 years old — not just recreational exercise but also occupational tasks and work around the home.

In the most comprehensive study ever on the impact of smoking on cardiovascular disease in older people, epidemiologist Dr. Ute Mons from the German Cancer Research Center (Deutsches Krebsforschungszentrum, DKFZ) analyzed 25 individual studies, compiling data from over half a million individuals age 60 and older.

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.

Andria Jones Bitton, an epidemiologist now at the University of Guelph's veterinary school, served with Friedberg on Guelph's student government.

In the new study, perinatal epidemiologist Anick Bérard, at the University of Montreal in Canada, and colleagues used data collected on 145,456 infants born in Quebec between January 1998 and December 2009 to calculate the risk of autism among babies whose mothers had used one or more antidepressants while pregnant.