Sentences with phrase «epidemiologists for»

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

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.

«The fact that the hazard quotients of risk were so high through only one exposure route is concerning,» said Robin Taylor Wilson, Penn State College of Medicine professor and lead epidemiologist for the study.

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.

Brinkman says she was originally compelled to conduct this research through her work as an epidemiologist for the North Metropolitan Health Service in Western Australia.

Host Terry Carter talks with Bruce MacEwen, who acts as a sort of doctor and epidemiologist for BigLaw firms.

Not exact matches

Erin Landry, 32, an epidemiologist from Beaumont who considers herself a Republican, said she also voted for Stephens as well as for Trump.

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.

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«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.

«There's already a lot of reasons for women to breastfeed their babies,» said Walter Rogan, an epidemiologist at the National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences in Research Triangle Park, N.C. «This is one more.»

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.

Contributors: Members of the writing committee for this paper were Peter Brocklehurst (professor of perinatal epidemiology, National Perinatal Epidemiology Unit (NPEU), University of Oxford; professor of women's health, Institute for Women's Health, University College London (UCL)-RRB-; Pollyanna Hardy (senior trials statistician, NPEU); Jennifer Hollowell (epidemiologist, NPEU); Louise Linsell (senior medical statistician, NPEU); Alison Macfarlane (professor of perinatal health, City University London); Christine McCourt (professor of maternal and child health, City University London); Neil Marlow (professor of neonatal medicine, UCL); Alison Miller (programme director and midwifery lead, Confidential Enquiry into Maternal and Child Health (CEMACH)-RRB-; Mary Newburn (head of research and information, National Childbirth Trust (NCT)-RRB-; Stavros Petrou (health economist, NPEU; professor of health economics, University of Warwick); David Puddicombe (researcher, NPEU); Maggie Redshaw (senior research fellow, social scientist, NPEU); Rachel Rowe (researcher, NPEU); Jane Sandall (professor of social science and women's health, King's College London); Louise Silverton (deputy general secretary, Royal College of Midwives (RCM)-RRB-; and Mary Stewart (research midwife, NPEU; senior lecturer, King's College London, Florence Nightingale School of Nursing and Midwifery).

We asked a midwife, an epidemiologist, a general practitioner, the director of the National Childbirth Trust, and an obstetrician for their comments.

SOURCES: Carrie K. Shapiro - Mendoza, Ph.D., epidemiologist, division of reproductive health, U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Atlanta; Thomas G. DeWitt, M.D., director, division of general and community pediatrics, Cincinnati Children's Hospital Medical Center; Cheryl Cipriani, M.D., associate professor, pediatrics, Texas A&M Health Science Center College of Medicine, and director, Neonatal Intensive Care Unit, Scott & White, Temple, Texas; February 2009 Pediatrics

Epidemiologists use twins for a variety of studies to compare inheritance and environmental factors to a multitude of health and behavioural studies.

OHHHHHHHH When women listen to the epidemiologist FIRST and then LOOK at her pocket book and what her husband / mr man can actually provide for her maternity care.......

If you ask Marsden Wagner, MD, a perinatologist and perinatal epidemiologist from California and director of Women's and Children's Health in the World Health Organization for 15 years, he will tell you: Doctors.

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.

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.

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.

Seconding the idea of using scarcity to breed opportunity, Jason Osborne, a laboratory instrument designer, and Aaron Alford, a psychiatric epidemiologist, came up with an outrageous concept: Get the education system to pay for field work in paleontology.

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.

Epidemiologist Lei Chen of the Washoe County Health District sent a bacterial sample to the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.

The enzyme is worrisome because it arms bacteria against carbapenems, a group of last - resort antibiotics, says Alexander Kallen, a CDC medical epidemiologist based in Atlanta, who calls the drugs «our biggest guns for our sickest patients.»

Studies suggest that kind of prolonged exposure to high temperatures increases the risk of death for vulnerable groups like the elderly, said Rebecca Noe, an epidemiologist at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.

The cooling season here will mitigate the situation, says J. Erin Staples, a medical epidemiologist with the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.

A similar shift was playing out for epidemiologists.

«Prior to 2004, most of us thought that a 1918 pandemic would never occur again, but now we are not so sure,» says Tim Uyeki, an epidemiologist at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention in Atlanta.

«I can't think of another circumstance in health care where there is such a lot of nonsense that has been persisting for so long,» says Collins, a medical epidemiologist at the University of Oxford and one of the leaders of the Cholesterol Treatment Trialists» Collaboration.

Ken Nussbaum, a veterinary epidemiologist at Auburn University in Alabama, sees a «burgeoning need» for animal experts in public health, and he wants to help fill that need.

Kathy Orloski (pdf), a veterinary epidemiologist at the U.S. Department of Agriculture's National Tuberculosis Eradication Program in Fort Collins, Colo., says the country's cattle industry would welcome a rapid test for bovine TB.

Delegates included those interested in all aspects of lung cancer, including surgeons, medical oncologists, radiation oncologists, pulmonologists, radiologists, pathologists, epidemiologists, basic research scientists, with special sessions for nurses, allied health professionals and advocacy members.

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.

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.

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.

Epidemiologists insist that the benefits of flu vaccines outweigh the risks, however, and are calling for better surveillance to pick up occasional problems faster.

During her graduate studies at Harvard, Jennifer Weuve, now an epidemiologist at the Boston University School of Public Health, wondered if airborne pollutants might be bad for the brain.

«In order to get the vaccine to the most people before they are exposed to HPV, we want to give it to them before their sexual debut,» says medical epidemiologist Lauri Markowitz of the Centers for Disease Control.

But, warning that the study has important limitations, George Patton, a psychiatric epidemiologist at the University of Melbourne in Australia, adds that it in no way proves that marijuana — particularly heavy, or chronic use — is safe for teenagers.

Ina Park is a medical epidemiologist with a passion for empowering and informing others about sexually transmitted disease (STD) prevention.

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.

For a year after graduating from Tulane, West worked as a chronic disease epidemiologist at the Louisiana Office of Public Health.

«It's tough to nail these associations,» admits Lawrence Appel, an epidemiologist at Johns Hopkins University and the chair of the salt committee for the 2010 Dietary Guidelines for Americans.

«This guidance details the role of the healthcare epidemiologist as an expert and leader supporting hospitals in preparing for, stopping, and recovering from infectious diseases crises,» said David Banach, MD, co-chair of the writing panel and Assistant Professor of Medicine at the University of Connecticut and Hospital Epidemiologist atepidemiologist as an expert and leader supporting hospitals in preparing for, stopping, and recovering from infectious diseases crises,» said David Banach, MD, co-chair of the writing panel and Assistant Professor of Medicine at the University of Connecticut and Hospital Epidemiologist atEpidemiologist at UConn Health.

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.

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.

«Anywhere with these vectors — Aedes aegypti mosquitoes and to some degree Aedes albopictus — could get this virus and have local transmission,» says Erin Staples, a medical epidemiologist and expert in mosquito - borne diseases at the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.