Sentences with phrase «of epidemiologists»

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).

In the first of these epidemiologists followed some ninety thousand women health workers aged 34 - 59 for 25 years; in the other they followed forty thousand male counterparts aged 40 - 75 for twenty years.

Dr. Campbell told me today that a group of epidemiologists (about 7 of them, unaffiliated with him, from Johns Hopkins and other places) are about to systematically take apart Minger's faulty assumptions about the China Study.

He said the nation needs a scaled - up version of the C8 Science Panel, a group of epidemiologists who examined the health effects of perfluorooctanoic acid, or PFOA, as part of a settlement between plaintiffs in the Ohio River Valley and DuPont, the maker of Teflon.

A team of epidemiologists and viral experts from the WHO and the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention in Atlanta will attempt to reach the affected area, which is remote and plagued by civil war, early next week to collect more samples and look for the source of the outbreak.

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

Hundreds of epidemiologists and technical experts are pouring into Madagascar, one of the poorest countries in the world, to help fight an unprecedented plague epidemic.

In a recent survey of epidemiologists and stem cell researchers in the United States, Japan, Germany, the United Kingdom, and France, nearly two - thirds said that they had been interviewed at least once in the past 3 years.

Grais celebrates even the smaller of her team's accomplishments, like the completion of a field survey or the publication of an epidemiologist's first peer - reviewed article.

The job of an epidemiologist is mostly clinical as they study the origin of a disease and thereby assist in the prevention of infectious diseases.

Not exact matches

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.

This work yielded a number of different «clusters» of jobs, such as those that work intimately with other people (psychologists, social workers) and those that handle bugs in complex systems (epidemiologists).

Until relatively recently in human history, malaria was found on every continent except Antarctica, according to Dr. David Brandling - Bennett, an epidemiologist and the former director of the malaria strategy program at the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation.

Shira Shafir, a UCLA epidemiologist brought in to run part of Toms» giving department, has a plaque on her desk with a quote often attributed to Einstein: «If we knew what we were doing, it wouldn't be called research.»

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.

Epidemiologists have found that when the incarceration rate rises in a county, there tends to be a subsequent increase in the rates of sexually transmitted diseases and teenage pregnancy, possibly because women have less power to require their partners to practice protected sex or remain monogamous.

One Brown University epidemiologist estimates that 20,000 of them are opioid addicts — 2 percent of the population.

Children who eat more than 12 hot dogs per month have nine times the normal risk of developing childhood leukemia, a USC epidemiologist has reported in a cancer research journal.

«Nutritionists, political economists and epidemiologists at Oxford will study how animal foods affect health and the environment and they will then work with Sainsbury's to present those findings in ways people can understand,» said Sarah Molton, head of Our Planet, Our Health.

In contrast, a diet of processed foods tends to be the opposite — it contains more sodium and less potassium, says Kuklina, a nutritional epidemiologist at the CDC.

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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.

«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.

How, asked the authors - three researchers at Vanderbilt and an epidemiologist at the University of North Carolina - Chapel Hill - did an athlete with treatable depression come to believe that he had an untreatable condition and commit suicide?

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.

«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).

I'm a certified nurse - midwife, a past - president of the American College of Nurse - Midwives, and a CDC - trained epidemiologist who has published three major studies of out - of - hospital births in this country.

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.

An armchair epidemiologist could get into all sorts of trouble...

... 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.

I guess I am pretty stupid and gullible, since I believe an OB is the correct professional to speak to the safety of births in various settings, not an epidemiologist with the CDC.

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.

As defined by epidemiologists, risk refers to the probability that an outcome will occur given the presence of a particular factor or set of factors.

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.

A handful of Democrats are facing off to take on Perry, including epidemiologist Eric Ding and former Obama administration aide Shavonnia Corbin - Johnson, who has also been endorsed by EMILY's List.

According to him, the ministry immediately sent its Rapid Response Team, RRT, which consisted three Doctors, Disease Notification Officers, DNOs, and an Epidemiologist to examine the victim and take sample of his blood.

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.

«People who think, «I'm not at risk,» are really not understanding the magnitude of this virus,» says cancer epidemiologist Electra Paskett of Ohio State University in Columbus.

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.

In 1980, he and his late brother Frank C. Garland, also an epidemiologist, published an influential paper that posited vitamin D (produced by the body through exposure to sunshine) and calcium (which vitamin D helps the body absorb) together reduced the risk of colon cancer.

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

If this is shown to work in bigger, randomised trials, it would be fantastic, says Ana Valdes, a genetic epidemiologist at the University of Nottingham, UK.

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.»

«Heat has the ability to affect so many people,» says Rupa Basu, an epidemiologist with the California Environmental Protection Agency's Office of Environmental Health Hazard Assessment in Oakland.

► 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.