Sentences with phrase «good epidemiologists»

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

I've taken my best epidemiologist, David Savitz, who has agreed to chair a high - powered working group that meets every couple of weeks.

Would you make a good Epidemiologist?

Would you make a good epidemiologist?

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.

Alexis Santos, a Puerto Rican demographer at Penn State, and Jeffrey Howard, an independent health scientist and epidemiologist, calculated average monthly deaths from 2010 through 2016 using a methodology that other researchers have told Vox is one of the best ways to calculate estimates of disaster deaths.

«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.

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.

The CDC team's work combines «superb conventional epidemiology with a well - characterized animal model,» epidemiologists Barry Bloom and Peter Small write in an accompanying editorial.

Terryl Hartman, a nutritional epidemiologist and assistant professor at Pennsylvania State University, notes: «The contacts that I made and the collaborations that I established during the CPFP have continued to serve me very well.

Ian Lipkin of Columbia University, a well - known virologist who probes links between microbial infections and neuropsychiatric disorders, is being sued, along with the university, by epidemiologist Mady Hornig, his long - term collaborator.

«A human is better at spreading viruses than an aerosol» that might breach a lab's physical containment, said epidemiologist Marc Lipsitch of Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, who has calculated that the risk of a lab - acquired infection sparking a pandemic is greater than recognized.

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

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.

We must factor in politics, economics and people's behaviour as well as medicine in the fight against HIV, says epidemiologist Elizabeth Pisani

However, it is well known that ectoparasites transmit disease, says the Wisconsin epidemiologist, noting that things like ticks and fleas harbor important pathogens like typhus, bubonic plague, Lyme disease and Rocky Mountain spotted fever.

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.

Those who coordinate such projects have to be able to speak to medical people, epidemiologists, statisticians, economists, and sociologists as well as administrators and data security personnel and be able to understand their different concepts and principles.

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.

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.

The authors of the consensus statement are a collection of experts in the field of Streptococcal diseases in horses including veterinary microbiologists, epidemiologists, and veterinarians who research this disease, as well as internists who encounter the disease frequently.»

«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.»

One Dartmouth scientist, epidemiologist Margaret Karagas, had already found that babies whose mothers relied on water from wells drilled in New Hampshire's arsenic - rich bedrock — with contamination measured at levels as high as 1 ppm (1,000 ppb)-- were disproportionately likely to have low birth weight and might also be more vulnerable to childhood infections.

Study co-author Martha Clare Morris, ScD, a Rush nutritional epidemiologist, and her colleagues developed the MIND diet based on information from years of research about what foods and nutrients have good, and bad, effects on the functioning of the brain.

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.»

«It may be good for science,» says epidemiologist Curt Furberg of Wake Forest University in Winstom - Salem, North Carolina, «but patients will pay the price.»

In a paper published last January, Rassen and Sebastian Schneeweiss, another Harvard epidemiologist and cocreator of the algorithm, put hd - PS to a test to see if it could analyze complicated health data as well as human experts.

«You could make a good case for either one,» says Brian Greenwood, an epidemiologist specializing in vaccines at the London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine, who is chairing a session at the meeting.

«I believe the conclusions about exposure are generally solidly based; they are believable and reassuring, as well,» says Steven Simon, a radiation epidemiologist at the U.S. National Cancer Institute of the National Institutes of Health in Bethesda, Maryland.

Boslough accepts the fatality estimates for climate change (the WHO's estimate was made for the agency by epidemiologist Tony McMichael, of the Australian National University's National Center for Epidemiology and Population Health) as well as those for asteroid impacts, the latter of which are based lately on work by Harris.

«These data are based on death certificates and represent a good count of gun deaths across the U.S. from all causes — suicide, homicide, and unintentional gun deaths,» says Charles Branas, an epidemiologist at the University of Pennsylvania, who used them to compare urban versus rural gun deaths.

«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.

«I think it's a good piece of work,» says Jürg Utzinger, an epidemiologist at the University of Basel in Switzerland who was not involved in the study.

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.

The study shows that the severity of the 1918 pandemic was caused by the virus itself, not the lack of good medical care or secondary bacterial infections, says epidemiologist Arnold Monto of the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor.

«In collaboration with researchers from the University of Calgary and the University of British Columbia our team has developed a computer model to help doctors and their patients better understand how excess body weight contributes to reduced life expectancy and premature development of heart disease and diabetes,» says lead author Dr. Steven Grover, a Clinical Epidemiologist at the RI - MUHC and a Professor of Medicine at McGill University.

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.

On the 11 - member panel are several veterans and six physician - scientists, including a well - known advocate for this controversial theory: Epidemiologist Robert Haley of the University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center in Dallas.

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.

«We wanted to better understand how NSQIP could be used to drive quality improvement efforts in our hospital,» said lead study author Amber Trickey, MSc, PhD, a surgery epidemiologist and biostatistician at Inova Fairfax Hospital.

Mariana Stern, a cancer epidemiologist at the University of California says about the questionable chemical found n processed meats, «Regardless of where the nitrates come from,» says Stern, «they can be converted by oral bacteria intro nitrites, which in turn can react in the stomach... to form N - Nitroso compounds, which are well - established cancer - causing agents.»

Ms. Johnson, an epidemiologist with the federal Centers for Disease Control and Prevention in Atlanta, said the climbing mortality rate for all children may be due, in part, to improved diagnosis and better reporting of the disease over the past decade.

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

«This means that it is not always the best people in their field who are willing to contribute their time and effort,» says epidemiologist Reiter.

The North Carolina state epidemiologist recently quit because the NC DEP lifted a no drink order on wells surrounding a Duke Power coal ash storage site.

The work of epidemiologists Wilkinson and Pickett (2009) has illuminated the impact of this rise in inequality bringing an array of evidence in their book, The Spirit Level: Why More Equal Societies Always do Better, to reach conclusions that have been the subject of considerable debate and critique (for a good review see Rowlingson, 2011).

Is Marriage Good for Your Health In 1858, a British epidemiologist named William Farr set out to study what he called the «conjugal condition» of people of France.