Sentences with phrase «health scientist»

They had a visitor — the top environmental health scientist in the country.

The student scholars program was created to tackle the growing shortage of animal health scientists needed to pursue answers to complex questions impacting animal health.

As a public health scientist, how can I ask people to change their habits if I can't even take care of myself?

Shanna Swan, an environmental health scientist at Mount Sinai Hospital in New York, said she is concerned by the findings because preterm babies already have «a whole lot stacked against them.»

«Primate research is stronger, if you will, more needed, than ever,» said John Harding, health scientist administrator for the Division of Comparative Medicine at the National Institutes of Health.

Unlike any other berry flavored salad dressings or vinaigrette, the organic mixed - berries in BRAGGBERRY ™ are known by nutritionists and health scientists for their health promoting and antioxidant properties.

Early results from a larger, ongoing study led by environmental health scientist Richard Pilsner at the University of Massachusetts Amherst suggest that phthalate levels in expectant fathers have an effect on couples» reproductive success via epigenetic modifications of sperm DNA.

Overall, this is a great success story for Nigeria, which sets a hopeful example for other countries, including the U.S., which face risk of importation from high Ebola transmission areas,» said Dr. Cécile Viboud, a National Institutes of Health scientist with the Fogarty International Center.

Some couples are always going to have fertility issues — whether it's genetics or age or injuries to the reproductive system, said Tracey Woodruff, a reproductive health scientist in the division of Maternal - Fetal Medicine at the University of California, San Francisco Medical Center who was not involved in the studies.

«This peptide acts as a «zip code» in that it enables the binding of the nanoparticles only to blood vessels within the tumor and not normal blood vessels,» says Alnawaz Rehemtulla, a radiologist and environmental health scientist who co-authored the study.

Diane Harris, PhD MPH Health Scientist, Division of Nutrition, Physical Activity and Obesity, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention

She works to make connections with medical professionals, human health scientists and MSU Extension.

«Gynecological problems during the reproductive years may be a predictor of diseases, such as cancer, later in life,» said Barbara Cohn, a reproductive health scientist and director of Child Health and Development Studies at the Public Health Institute in Berkeley, Calif..

It was a surprise to find relatively similar DTI changes in both groups exposed to primary blast,» said Katherine H. Taber, Ph.D., a research health scientist at the W.G. (Bill) Hefner Veterans Affairs Medical Center and the study's lead author.

Physical exercise Walking briskly for half an hour five times a week is the amount of physical exercise that health scientists recommend for everyone.

Eliza has collaborated on multiple research projects with leading health scientists on the most effective strategies and treatments for obesity, overweight, weight loss and weight management, food addiction and emotional eating.

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.

Surveying 1,120 women in England, Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland, the public health scientists found vast disparities in which conditions women were willing to treat through pharmaceutical medicines.

Breast Feeding Better for Low - Weight Babies Johns Hopkins School of Public Health Scientists from the Johns Hopkins School of Public Health have found that exclusive breastfeeding is best for low - birth - weight infants during the first six months of life.

«It's a way to utilize an available resource instead of discarding it into the ocean, where it's instantly no longer of use as freshwater,» says environmental health scientist Kellogg Schwab, who directs the Center for Water and Health at Johns Hopkins University.

Or so argue public health scientists Martha Campbell and Kathleen Beford of the University of California, Berkeley in the special issue.

«It underscores the necessity to control ozone entry into buildings in regions with even moderate ambient ozone levels,» says environmental health scientist Michael Apte of Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory in California.

Earthworms «are not really supposed to be in some of these areas,» says Tara Bal, a forest health scientist at Michigan Technological University in Houghton.

But «specialists did not know whether the frequency [in the Fukushima results] was high or low,» says Noboru Takamura, a radiation health scientist at the Atomic Bomb Disease Institute at Nagasaki University in Japan.

In this study in Timothy grass, researchers led by environmental health scientist Christine Rogers of the UMass Amherst School of Public Health and Health Sciences (SPHHS) determined the interactive effects of CO2 and ozone at projected higher levels on pollen production and concentrations of a Timothy grass pollen protein that is a major human allergen.

Duke Health scientists have identified a group of proteins that, when detected in specific quantities in the mucous, are 86 percent accurate in confirming the infection is from a cold or flu virus, according to a small, proof - of - concept trial published online in the journal EBioMedicine.

«There's definitely an exposure, especially from nanosilver that's really common in consumer products as well as buckyballs and titanium dioxide in skin creams,» says toxicologist Jennifer Sass, a senior health scientist at the environmental group Natural Resources Defense Council (NRDC).

In the first study of its kind, environmental health scientist Laura Vandenberg and neuroscientist Mary Catanese at the University of Massachusetts Amherst examined the effects of the compound bisphenol S (BPS) on maternal behavior and related brain regions in mice.

Hans Rosling, Global health scientist 180,000 followers @HansRosling Citations: 1,703 K - index: 384 Total number of tweets: 2,708 Karolinska Institute, Sweden

At the same time, human activities such as deforestation are creating more habitat in which the mosquitoes that spread malaria can thrive, according to environmental health scientist Jonathan Patz of the University of Wisconsin — Madison.

National Institutes of Health scientists developing a rapid, practical test for the early diagnosis of prion diseases have modified the assay to offer the possibility of improving early diagnosis of Parkinson's disease and dementia with Lewy bodies.

«The chromium process is old, historic and efficient, and any other process is not likely to dominate,» says environmental health scientist Jack Caravanos of the City University of New York School of Public Health, who consulted on the report and suggests chromium tanning for leather is not going away.

Launching a natural research experiment in Kathmandu, Nepal, this month using advanced monitoring methods to assess health risk from air pollution, environmental health scientist Rick Peltier at the University of Massachusetts Amherst hopes to demonstrate for the first time in a real - world setting that air pollution can and should be regulated based on toxicology variables rather than simply on the volume of particles in the air.

«Software development is often rapid, iterative, agile,» says Jackie Bender, a behavioral health scientist studying how technology can improve the lives of chronic disease sufferers at the University of Toronto's Centre for Global eHealth Innovation.

«The current plan catalogs nano - risk research across several federal agencies, but it does not present an overarching research strategy needed to gain public acceptance and realize the promise of nanotechnology,» says David Eaton, an environmental and occupational health scientist at the University of Washington, Seattle, who chaired the committee that wrote the report.

Published in the Journal of Epidemiology & Community Health scientists look at the association between smoking in pregnancy and antisocial behaviour in offspring.

The VLM allows True Health scientists multiple points of entry for access, increased productivity, and reduced search time.

Summit County Health Dept. Environmental Health Director Phil Bondurant and Environmental Health Scientist Derek Siddodway talk about Radon and the importance of testing and Jessica Lang of the Jessica Lang Dance Company talks about the company's performance Friday night at the Park City Eccles Center.

The Foundation is committed to saving cats from FIP by funding a cluster of studies that has the potential to help animal health scientists better understand, treat and even develop cures for the disease.

Current position: Keller Family Secretarial Scholar, One Health Scientist, Smithsonian's Global Health Program, Smithsonian's National Zoo & Conservation Biology Institute, Washington, D.C.

June 21, 2016 — Health scientist calls for the reduction of dependence on «dirty energy» for the sake of our children.

Vijay Limaye is an environmental health scientist working as a climate change and health science fellow at NRDC's Science Center.

The team includes geologists, petroleum engineers, hydrologists, environmental scientists, business experts and public health scientists such as Prof. McCawley and his graduate students, Alyson Johnson and Taylor Devine.

Caroline Dilworth, Ph.D., health scientist administrator in the NIEHS Division of Extramural Research and Training, oversees the grants that are funding the research.

«Decreased adiponectin, if it happens in vivo, appears to be a bad thing and could result in increased heart disease,» says environmental health scientist Richard Stahlhut of the University of Rochester Medical Center, who was not involved in the research.