Sentences with phrase «public health sciences»

Dr. Afshar is a Loyola Medicine pulmonologist and an assistant professor in the division of pulmonary and critical care medicine and department of public health sciences of Loyola University Chicago Stritch School of Medicine.

Yet after eight years, the ALLHAT report has hardly made a dent in prescribing rates for name - brand blood pressure medications, according to Curt Furberg, a professor of public health sciences at Wake Forest University.

Sophia Allen, a postdoctoral scholar in public health sciences at Penn State College of Medicine, said the survey helps gather data the state can use to create, implement and evaluate programs and interventions to help prevent the uptake of smoking and other tobacco use in young people.

«Traditional medicine doesn't consider mechanistic drug response,» said Rongling Wu, director of the Center for Statistical Genetics and professor of public health sciences within the division of biostatistics and bioinformatics at the Penn State College of Medicine.

The Swedish Research Council has awarded Koustuv Dalal, senior public health science researcher at Örebro University, a three - year research grant of 750,000 SEK to develop a prevention programme for sufferers of spinal cord injuries in Bangladesh.

The whole business about linearity / non-linearity, and biological effects below the NOAEL levels, is really fascinating and important for public health science, and the uncertainties re-inforce Paul's point about how careful we should be about the accuracy of the «hard» risk science.

An increased focus on public health science and innovation or that which stresses food security and safety will help prevent disease and premature death and promote well - being worldwide.»

«Frequently we treat patients» blood pressure to the lowest it will go, thinking that is what's best,» said Carlos J. Rodriguez, M.D., associate professor of public health sciences at Wake Forest Baptist and lead author of the study.

Lead author Abigail Silva, PhD, an assistant professor of public health sciences at Loyola University Chicago Stritch School of Medicine, says she was «pleasantly surprised» to see an effect, although modest, so soon after the ACA was put into place.

«Mendelian randomization is an important tool that allows us to examine telomere length without the problematic biases that come with physically measuring it,» said study author Chenan Zhang, graduate student in public health sciences at the University of Chicago.

Editor's note: This article was reviewed in by Fern R. Hauck, MD, MS, professor of family medicine and public health sciences at the University of Virginia.

Public health nursing is a specialty practice within nursing and public health, using knowledge from nursing, social and public health science to promote and protect the health of populations.

«Maybe the baby cries less if the mom and dad are happier,» said Kristen Kjerulff, professor of public health sciences and senior study author.

Maki, Pirjo, «Parental separation at birth and maternal depressed mood in pregnancy: associations with schizophrenia and criminality in the offspring», Department of Psychiatry and Department of Public Health Science and General Practice, University of Oulu

«Women with PCOS may have a higher chance of a successful pregnancy and may have less ovarian hyperstimulation when you electively freeze all the embryos and perform a frozen embryo transfer than if you do a fresh transfer,» said Dr. Richard Legro, professor of obstetrics and gynecology and public health sciences at Penn State College of Medicine.

«Our work provides compelling evidence of a relationship between long telomeres and increased risk for lung adenocarcinoma,» said study leader Brandon Pierce, PhD, assistant professor of public health sciences at the University of Chicago.

«We found that e-cigarettes appear to be less addictive than tobacco cigarettes in a large sample of long - term users,» said Jonathan Foulds, Ph.D., professor of public health sciences and psychiatry, Penn State College of Medicine.

This first - dollar coverage «has the potential to dramatically shift contraceptive use patterns, to reduce the U.S. unintended pregnancy rate... and to improve the health of women and families,» wrote Carol S. Weisman, Distinguished Professor of Public Health Sciences and Obstetrics and Gynecology, and Cynthia H. Chuang, associate professor of medicine and public health sciences.

This walking meeting pilot study provides early evidence that white - collar workers find it feasible and acceptable to convert a traditional seated meeting into a walking meeting,» said the study's principal investigator, Alberto J. Caban - Martinez, D.O., Ph.D., M.P.H., assistant professor of public health sciences.

John Mandrola, cardiologist, Baptist Health Louisville; and Guodong Liu, assistant professor of public health sciences, Penn State College of Medicine, also participated in this research.

Cynthia Chuang, associate professor of medicine and public health sciences, studied the attitudes and habits of women who gained appropriate weight and those who exceeded guidelines.

Such high - quality pathogens are provided for researchers, thus contributing to biomedical and public health sciences.

Other researchers are Charles Palmer, professor of pediatrics; Kirsteen Browning, assistant professor of neural and behavioral sciences; Puneet Jairath, neonatal fellow, newborn medicine; Duanping Liao, professor of public health sciences; and Fan He, research coordinator.

«Adults in the United States spend more than 11 hours per day sitting while doing things like watching television and working on a computer,» said Liza Rovniak, assistant professor of medicine and public health sciences.

But the study's lead author, Guodong Liu, assistant professor of public health sciences, said the findings indicated that e-cigarette users were relatively less dependent than cigarette users.

Weight gain is one of the most commonly cited reasons why women stop using hormonal contraception, and therefore may play a role in the risk of unintended pregnancies, said Dr. Cynthia H. Chuang, professor of medicine and public health sciences.

«Those results we think are important because they indicate that if we were to initiate a restricted diet in adult human beings, we would still get the beneficial effects without having to worry about this issue of growth retardation,» said John Richie, professor of public health sciences and pharmacology at Penn State Cancer Institute, who oversaw the review.

Other researchers on this study were Emily Wasserman, biostatistician, and Jonathan Foulds, professor, both in the Department of Public Health Sciences and the Penn State Tobacco Center of Regulatory Science; and Lan Kong, associate professor of public health sciences.

«This is an important and distinct finding from our previous IVF study, and it suggests that one type of IVF treatment does not fit all and treatments should be chosen based on specific patient characteristics,» said Dr. Richard S. Legro, professor of obstetrics and gynecology and public health sciences at Penn State College of Medicine.

Other researchers on the study were Junjia Zhu, assistant professor of public health sciences, and Ian Paul, professor of pediatrics and public health sciences, both at Penn State College of Medicine.

Penn State College of Medicine's Dr. Jennifer Kraschnewski, assistant professor of medicine and public health sciences, has received $ 2.2 million in funding from the Patient - Centered Outcomes Research Institute (PCORI) to participate in a new diabetes research network and study the effectiveness of obesity counseling.

«Maybe the baby cries less if the mom and dad are happier,» said Kristen Kjerulff, professor of public health sciences and senior study author.

Dr. Kemp is a Full Member in the Divisions of Human Biology and Public Health Science at the Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center and is an Adjunct Professor in the Department of Pathology at the University of Washington.

While mechanical tenderizing makes for a tastier steak, it creates a problem, says David P. Goldman, MD, assistant administrator for the Office of Public Health Science at FSIS: When the blades or needles poke through the surface of the meat, there's potential for pathogens — such as E.coli — to be introduced to the interior of the cut, where they are harder to cook off.

«The risk of death for women aged 10 to 34 who had been exposed to DES in utero [in the womb] and had clear - cell adenocarcinoma was 27 times higher than the risk for women in the general U.S. population,» study author Dr. Dezheng Huo, an associate professor of public health sciences, said in a university news release.

«Medical students are surrounded by the same environment that everyone is in this country, a culture of idealized images of physical attractiveness in which thin is good and fat is bad,» said Mara Vitolins, professor of public health sciences at Wake Forest Baptist, in a statement.

John Reilly, professor of physical activity and public health science at the University of Strathclyde, said: «Lifestyle in childhood and adolescence is not «just» about health, but is also important to academic attainment.

Stott's attribution approach — termed «fraction of attributable risk» (FAR)-- was co-opted from the public health sciences, where it is used to provide quantitative insights into the contribution of a risk factor to a disease outcome.

London, 18 January: A pair of influential reports published by the medical journal, The Lancet, are a «gross distortion» of public health science and threaten to devastate public health in the developing world.

Hertz - Picciotto is co-director of Project TENDR and professor of public health sciences at UC Davis and the UC Davis MIND Institute.

While there is no specific course target for this job, you can join this profession with a degree in Public Health Science.

Professor Emeritus of Biological Psychology at the Department of Psychology and Centre for Health Equity Studies (CHESS), Stockholm University, 106 91 Stockholm, Sweden, Post-doc at the Department of Medical and Health Sciences, Linköping University, Sweden, Professor in Social Medicine and Public Health Science at the Department of Medical and Health Sciences, Linköping University, Sweden

Student in Social Medicine and Public Health Science at the Department of Medical and Health Sciences, Linköping University, Sweden

Professor in Social Medicine and Public Health Science at the Department of Medical and Health Sciences, Linköping University, 58183 Linköping, Sweden, Ph.D..