Sentences with phrase «epidemiologists now»

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

Epidemiologists now talk about syndemics — sets of interlocking afflictions (such as AIDS, violence, and substance abuse) that affect entire communities.

The interdisciplinary research team consisted of Anthony and her colleagues Matthew Davis, an epidemiologist now at the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, and Scott Pauls, professor of mathematics at Dartmouth.

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

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.

Not exact matches

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.

«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.

With this tool, epidemiologists can now use dogs instead of humans to track the spread of the virus.

Right now epidemiologists estimate that bunker fuel leads to premature deaths [of] 90,000 people each year.

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.

Epidemiologist Christopher Braden from the CDC says that the number of recognized US outbreaks has now doubled thanks to PulseNet, often leading to earlier identification of problems in food production.

Although epidemiologists also praise the work, some say too many other factors determine Lyme disease outbreaks for the study to have much predictive value for now.

Canada has also sent a total now of 7 epidemiologists and lab researchers to Mexico to assist in their ongoing disease investigation.

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.

Now comes Devra Davis, a preeminent cancer epidemiologist and environmentalist, to challenge that notion.

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.

Now researchers led by Eve Roman, an epidemiologist with the Leukaemia Research Fund at the University of Leeds, have concluded that Gardner's theory «could not be disproved» on the basis of their findings.

As Andrew Grulich, an epidemiologist at the University of New South Wales in Sydney, reported, more than 9000 MSM have now started PrEP.

«There's mounting evidence now from epidemiological studies that prenatal exposure to organophosphate pesticides, and chlorpyrifos in particular, may be associated with detriments with IQ in children,» said Kim Harley, an environmental epidemiologist with the University of California, Berkeley who has studied effects of pesticide exposure on children in California farm towns.

Amantadine and rimantadine are primarily used to treat seasonal flu in the United States and Japan, for instance, in nursing homes, says Arnold Monto, an epidemiologist at the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor — but their use is bound to decline now, he adds.

«We now have a better idea of how NSAID use may benefit a subset of patients diagnosed with colorectal cancer,» said Xinwei Hua, the study's first author and an epidemiologist at Fred Hutch.

But more than half the staph infections caught by hospital patients are now resistant to methicillin (up from 2 percent in 1974), and according to some epidemiologists, the deaths in Minnesota and North Dakota are just the tip of the iceberg.

Blood from the umbilical cord «is one of the best measures of contaminants being transferred from mother to fetus,» said Sharon Sagiv, lead author of the study and an epidemiologist who now works at Boston University.

«We now have very good and certainly much better data than before showing the incredible impact of HIV on tuberculosis and particularly TB - related deaths,» says epidemiologist Richard Chaisson, who directs the Johns Hopkins University Center for TB Research in Baltimore, Maryland, and who was not involved with the WHO report.

«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.

Thanks to the Seventh Day Adventists and the epidemiologists who studied them, we now have compelling evidence that a vegan diet can be healthier than one that includes meat and fish.

They were hardly put at ease by findings like those from David A. Savitz, an epidemiologist who was at the University of North Carolina back then and is now at Brown University.