Sentences with phrase «epidemiologists do»

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

Epidemiologists do know that eight million people in Central and South America and up to 300,000 U.S. immigrants are infected.

Here we have an epidemiologist doing the same thing... perhaps there's an epidemic!

Future patterns are uncertain, she says; 15th - century epidemiologists did not predict the «devastating» effects of syphilis in subsequent centuries.

Not exact matches

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.»

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.

How, asked the authors - three researchers at Vanderbilt and an epidemiologist at the University of North Carolina - Chapel Hill - did an athlete with treatable depression come to believe that he had an untreatable condition and commit suicide?

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.

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.

This small trial doesn't provide the rigorous evidence that epidemiologists need, but it demonstrates potential, says Hadyn Parry, chief executive of Oxitec, the UK firm that developed the mosquitoes.

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 paper did not assess the reasons behind such a decision, but it may indicate that parents are either concerned about having another affected child or don't have the ability to care for another child after having one with ASD, according to Lisa Croen, PhD, an epidemiologist and director of the Autism Research Program at Kaiser Permanente Northern California, who helped design the study and was a co-author of the paper.

West Africa needs doctors to run treatment and holding centers; virologists to do laboratory diagnostics; epidemiologists to dissect the major factors affecting the outbreak, which would lead to effective public health measures; public health workers to help implement these measures; and educators to work with the public and improve communications.

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.

«It makes you wonder why people are doing this,» says Eliseo Guallar, the epidemiologist at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health who wrote the 2013 editorial in the Annals of Internal Medicine.

David Thurman, a neurologist and epidemiologist at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention in Atlanta, adds that even if BMAA is doing what Cox believes it is, it appears unlikely to be a major factor behind neurological disorders like ALS and Alzheimer's.

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

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.

«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.

In assessing Voyles» case and others like it, environmental epidemiologists warn that proximity and correlation don't add up to proof.

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.

Fortunately, studies so far have shown that oseltamivir - resistant strains don't replicate very well, says epidemiologist Arnold Monto, an expert in flu drugs at the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor.

David Williamson, an epidemiologist at Emory University in Atlanta, says that the researchers don't furnish the usual indicators of statistical significance for their projections, such as error bars.

But this does not directly measure the actual prevalence of the novel H1N1 virus, and some epidemiologists caution against undue optimism.

«We do not know the exact mechanism,» says co-author Jung Eun Lee, an epidemiologist at Sookmyung Women's University in Seoul.

«We didn't expect diabetes to be the strongest factor in determining susceptibility,» said study lead author Jaime E. Hart, Sc.D., an epidemiologist in the Channing Division of Network Medicine at BWH and the Department of Environmental Health at Harvard Chan School.

«The dose really does make the poison,» says epidemiologist Gladys Block, the study's lead author.

AS THE swine flu pandemic continues to sweep the world, what do public health officials, epidemiologists and flu researchers think will happen in the coming months?

But the idea of single - subject research didn't really make the leap to medicine of the body until the early 1980s when Gordon Guyatt, a Canadian physician now known as a founder of evidence - based medicine, began working in an interdisciplinary department at McMaster University in Ontario, with psychologists, biostatisticians, ethicists and clinical epidemiologists all working together.

«I think this is a strong finding,» says Lone Simonsen, an epidemiologist at George Washington University in Washington, D.C. «It's good to see a carefully done, large study like this.»

«This study suggests that sufficient weight gain during pregnancy may help to dilute certain chemicals that store in fat, reducing exposure to the fetus,» said Jonathan Chevrier, an epidemiologist at McGill University in Montreal who did not participate in the research.

Focus on the therapies is also distracting from what really needs to be done, says Steven Riley, an infectious disease epidemiologist at Imperial College London.

However, «one can't do everything,» says Ian Lipkin, an epidemiologist at Columbia University.

Ami Zota, an epidemiologist at University of California, San Francisco who did not participate in the Salinas study, said the findings are «important to our understanding of PBDE toxicity in humans as well as to our understanding of thyroid disruption during pregnancy.»

Laura Koutsky, an epidemiologist at the University of Washington who led the studies on Gardasil, says that the abstinence - only message doesn't protect children who ignore it.

«But we didn't know whether this is a consequence of an aggressive tumor or rather its cause,» says Rudolf Kaaks, epidemiologist at the German Cancer Research Center (Deutsches Krebsforschungszentrum, DKFZ).

And shedding more virus does not necessarily mean people are more infectious, adds Gérard Krause, an epidemiologist at the Helmholtz Centre for Infection Research in Braunschweig, Germany.

«It doesn't tell us anything,» said epidemiologist Scott Hammer of Columbia University, who chairs the meeting.

The lead author of the study is Tiantian Li, an epidemiologist now at the Chinese Center for Disease Control and Prevention in Beijing, who did the work while serving as a postdoctoral researcher at the Columbia Climate and Health Program at Mailman, which Kinney directs.

In a paper published today in Science, epidemiologist Thomas Van Boeckel of the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Zurich and colleagues outline the growing threat — and what can be done about it.

Epidemiologist Tom Sinks says, «It doesn't tell us there's a hazard.»

While they do not yet know why this is the case, the evidence is worth pursuing, says Charles Mock, a surgeon and epidemiologist at the Harborview Injury Prevention and Research Center in Seattle, who led the research team.

Although this improvement gives epidemiologists a better idea of how many people are ill, it doesn't allow them to track an outbreak in real time or anticipate its spread.

Good grades don't cause bipolar disorder, but creativity and intelligence could be a reflection of common underlying biological traits, says James MacCabe, an epidemiologist at the Institute of Psychiatry, Kings College London, who led the study.

«It may be that the normal TEL allele successfully suppresses the function of the aberrant TEL - AML1 protein resulting from the fusion, so full - blown leukemia doesn't occur,» said the lead author of the study, Joseph Wiemels, PhD, now a UCSF assistant research molecular epidemiologist.

«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.

The news came from cancer epidemiologist Christopher Li, MD, and his colleagues at Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center in Seattle, who surveyed 3,500 postmenopausal women, 2,000 of whom had breast cancer and 1,500 who did nt.

«Children and adolescents who don't get enough sleep are at increased risk for obesity, diabetes, injuries, poor mental health, and attention and behavior problems, which can affect them academically,» said report author Anne Wheaton, a CDC epidemiologist.

«Our report was an attempt to do the most comprehensive assessment of fatty acids by combining data from all previous studies into a single investigation,» said study author Dr. Rajiv Chowdhury, a cardiovascular epidemiologist at the University of Cambridge in England.

The new study isn't «a green light to use hormone therapy for Alzheimer's or dementia prevention,» says Victor W. Henderson, M.D., an epidemiologist and professor of neurology at the Stanford University School of Medicine, in Stanford, Calif. «It does provide some reassurance that if a woman is considering hormone therapy for moderate to severe vasomotor symptoms, concerns about Alzheimer's disease should not impact [her] decision.»