Sentences with phrase «leading epidemiologists»

Discover senior editor John Langone interviewed more than a dozen leading epidemiologists in the United States, Britain, and France and consulted such publications as The Journal of the American Medical Association and The Lancet.

The announcement comes amid a debate over the use of experimental drugs in the outbreak: a leading epidemiologist hopes the announcement will shift international focus toward relying on basic public health measures to control the disease.

«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.

«It's likely that some of the behaviors that contribute to obesity, like a sedentary lifestyle and poor diet, like high consumption of red and processed meat, and a low consumption of milk products, lead to [colorectal cancer],» says Rebecca Siegel, MPH, lead epidemiologist on the study.

The lack of substance in climate propaganda is revealed when we compare the details that led epidemiologists to blame a fungus and modern transportation for the Golden Toad's extinction.

Not exact matches

It's certainly a short period of time, but it's a very critical period of time,» said Cria Perrine, a CDC epidemiologist who led the study.

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).

These results show that women who have had postpartum depression in the past should prepare themselves if they get pregnant again, said lead researcher Marie - Louise Rasmussen, an epidemiologist with Statens Serum Institut in Copenhagen.

... And in terms of that added risk, we see how someone weighs that as a personal choice,» said Jonathan Snowden, an epidemiologist at Oregon Health and Science University who led the study, which examined nearly 80,000 low - risk births in Oregon during 2012 and 2013.

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.

► As part of a series of articles about fighting malaria in this week's issue, Leslie Roberts wrote about Myaing Myaing Nyunt, an assistant professor at the University of Maryland School of Medicine in Baltimore who leads «a unique collaboration [with] her husband, molecular epidemiologist and malariologist Chris Plowe.

«Potentially, if we can prevent or control diabetes and high blood pressure in middle age, we can prevent or delay the brain damage that occurs decades later and leads to memory and thinking problems and dementia,» says study author and Mayo Clinic epidemiologist Rosebud Roberts M.B., Ch.B.

Young children's weight predicts their future health, says epidemiologist Ashleigh May, the lead author of the CDC report: «If they're obese at this age, they're five times as likely to become obese as adults.»

Shifting predictions could undermine people's faith in the value of personal genetic information, warns Cecile Janssens, an epidemiologist at Erasmus University Medical Center in Rotterdam, the Netherlands, who led the analysis.

«Hopefully, we'll figure out how the bacteria modulate newborns» immune system,» says Pinaki Panigrahi, an epidemiologist who led the team.

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.

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

According to the guidance document, during a crisis the epidemiologist provides medical and technical expertise and leads infection prevention and control efforts, coordinates with institutional stakeholders, and provides input into internal and external communications.

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.

In ongoing work, a team led by Harvard nutritional epidemiologist Jorge Chavarro has looked at the association between yogurt intake and semen quality in men.

But according to epidemiologist Kathryn Wilson, lead author of the report, the sheer size of the study's population helped the research team single out coffee's relationship to cancer.

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.

A team led by epidemiologist Paul Muntner of Tulane University analyzed health surveys of Americans aged 8 to 17 and found that systolic (peak) blood pressure has risen an average of 1.4 points since 1988 — 1994.

«The moderate elevation in risk observed in our study is not enough to justify a complete withdrawal of DMPA for women in the general population,» cautions Lauren Ralph, lead author and an epidemiologist at the University of California at Berkeley.

«There has been concern in the healthcare community about the impact of routine, daily chlorhexidine (CHG) bathing on fostering the spread of bacteria resistant to this agent,» said David Warren, MD, MPH, lead author of the study and Associate Professor of Medicine in the Division of Infectious Diseases at Washington University School of Medicine and Hospital Epidemiologist at Barnes - Jewish Hospital in St. Louis.

«There is a clear and alarming upswing throughout this country of antibiotic resistant Enterobacteriaceae infections in kids and teens,» said lead author Sharon B. Meropol, MD, PhD, a pediatrician and epidemiologist at Case Western Reserve University School of Medicine and Rainbow Babies and Children's Hospital in Cleveland.

A team led by David Melzer, an epidemiologist and physician at the Peninsula Medical School, in Exeter, U.K. examined data from the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention's National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey, a representative sample of the general population.

A team led by Bruno Gryseels, an epidemiologist from the University of Leiden in the Netherlands, reported poor results with praziquantel in 1992.

OSU public health epidemiologist Michelle Odden, senior author on the study and the lead author on the earlier gait - speed research, explained how high blood pressure might actually help in some cases.

«At least a dozen studies have shown the effects of phthalates on human reproduction,» says University of Rochester epidemiologist and biostatistician Shanna Swan, the lead author of a much - cited study that showed higher exposure to some phthalates in mothers correlates with reduced «anogenital distance» in newborn boys.

He and his Hutch team wrote up the study with researchers in Kenya and with University of Washington colleagues led by physician and epidemiologist Dr. Scott McClelland, who is first author on the paper.

«Obstetricians and midwives should consider pregnancies for immigrants from these regions as high risk,» said Dr. Marcelo Urquia, lead author and an epidemiologist at the Centre for Research on Inner City Health of St. Michael's Hospital.

«Homicide is a leading cause of death in U.S. adolescents and young adults, especially among African Americans, but the factors influencing violence are complex,» said corresponding author Alison J. Culyba, M.D., M.P.H., an adolescent medicine specialist and epidemiologist at The Children's Hospital of Philadelphia (CHOP).

Culyba and her CHOP co-authors collaborated with researchers from the Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania, led by epidemiologist Charles C. Branas, Ph.D., the senior author and director of the Penn Injury Science Center.

«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 study, led by Arnold School exercise scientist and epidemiologist Edward Archer, has demonstrated significant limitations in the measurement protocols used in the National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey (NHANES).

The majority of resistant strains of pneumococcus are of types which are included in the vaccine, for this reason, vaccine introduction in South Africa, has led to a substantial decline in antibiotic resistant invasive pneumococcal disease,» said Dr Cheryl Cohen, co-author of the paper, Clinical Epidemiologist at the NICD and senior lecturer in the School of Public Health at Wits.

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

Until a smaller study on sex mismatches by the same Dutch team six years ago, no one had thought to look at the pregnancy history of red blood cell donors, says Rutger Middelburg, an epidemiologist with Sanquin Research in the Netherlands, who helped lead that pilot work and the study published Tuesday.

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.

For instance, a 2014 analysis of 78 studies involving some 650,000 people found that «neither lower consumption of saturated fats nor higher consumption of polyunsaturated fats reduces the risk of developing cardiovascular disease,» said epidemiologist Dr. Rajiv Chowdhury of the University of Cambridge, the lead author.

A second study, led by epidemiologist Kim Harley of U.C. Berkeley, examined the relationship between PBDEs and fertility in 223 California women.

Data collected during a long - term health study provides additional evidence for a link between increased risk of cancer in individuals with advanced gum disease, according to a new collaborative study led by epidemiologists Dominique Michaud at Tufts University School of Medicine and Elizabeth Platz of the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health and Kimmel Cancer Center.

An international team of researchers led by epidemiologist Ian Roberts of the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine recently tested an inexpensive drug called tranexamic acid (TXA) in a trial involving more than 20,000 trauma cases in 40 countries.

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.

Kevin De Cock, who leads the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) field team in Liberia, calls him «an eminent epidemiologist with immense African experience.

However, researchers believe inhalation is likely a major exposure route for people living near heavily treated fields, said Janie Shelton, an epidemiologist who led a study linking chlorpyrifos to autism in babies born to moms near treated fields in farm - heavy Northern California last year.

«The growing number of cancer survivors in the U.S. makes it increasingly important to understand the unique medical and psychosocial needs of survivors,» said Carol DeSantis, MPH, American Cancer Society epidemiologist and lead author of the reports.

«Normal maternal thyroid hormone levels are essential for normal fetal growth and brain development, so our findings could have significant public health implications,» said Jonathan Chevrier, a University of California, Berkeley epidemiologist and lead author of the study, which was published in the journal Environmental Health Perspectives.

Precisely this connect - the - dots method led to one of the most significant public - health breakthroughs of the past quarter century: In the early 1980s, epidemiologists studied the sexual and social connections among a group of gay men on both U.S. coasts who were developing fatal cases of Pneumocystis carinii pneumonia and Kaposi's sarcoma.