Sentences with phrase «say epidemiologists»
Fatal heart attacks that recently struck two people after they were vaccinated against smallpox were probably unfortunate coincidences, not adverse consequences of vaccination, say epidemiologists who base their conclusion on death records from the 1940s.
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H1N1 swine flu is spreading fast enough to justify the preparations for a pandemic, say epidemiologists who've analysed its spread — though there is still uncertainty about its clinical severity
Relatives of the recently deceased are helping to pin down the causes of deaths in India, and boost public health, says epidemiologist Prabhat Jha
«Our analysis of the [earlier data] was rightly treated with caution; it was the first ever report of these links,» says epidemiologist Richard Melzer of the Peninsula Medical School in England, an author of both studies, the latest one published Tuesday in PLoS ONE.
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.»
That might cover studies on whether there are genetic changes that would allow Ebola to be transmitted through airborne particles, said epidemiologist Michael Osterholm of the University of Minnesota, something that is crucial for public health officials to know, he said, but which should not be made public.
«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.
«There are no new data presented here on complications or hospitalizations that we did not already know of,» says epidemiologist Peter Doshi of the University of Maryland School of Pharmacy in Baltimore, a critic of Roche and part of the Cochrane group that reviewed Tamiflu studies.
We must factor in politics, economics and people's behaviour as well as medicine in the fight against HIV, says epidemiologist Elizabeth Pisani
But he said epidemiologists then set out to track an «exposure pathway,» comparing people exposed to pollutants to people not exposed and then identifying how the exposure occurred.
But that sample tends to overestimate the risk of cancer for women at large, says epidemiologist Jeffrey Struewing of the National Cancer Institute.
But the new research adds to evidence suggesting that some body - wracking infections could also harm the human brain, says epidemiologist and neurologist Mitchell Elkind of Columbia University, who was not involved in the study.
The study raises hard questions about the nutritive value of milk, says epidemiologist C. Mary Schooling of the City University of New York and Hunter College in New York City.
«It's a very intriguing and promising approach,» says epidemiologist Barbara Herwaldt of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention in Atlanta.
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.
The effectiveness of the vaccine «wanes more quickly than we expected,» says epidemiologist Stacey Martin of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
The likely answer is herd immunity, says epidemiologist Albert Ko of the Yale School of Public Health.
«The dose really does make the poison,» says epidemiologist Gladys Block, the study's lead author.
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.
Globally, approximately 30 per cent of men have been circumcised, making it probably the world's most common surgical procedure, says epidemiologist Helen Weiss of the London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine.
«We estimate 11,000 HPV - associated cervical cancers and 4,000 HPV - associated anal cancers each year for men and women,» says epidemiologist Lauri Markowitz, a member of the CDC's Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices.
«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.»
Recreational exposures clearly play a role in causing these illnesses,» says epidemiologist Rebecca Calderon of the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency.
The findings show that malaria prevention tools are a bit like vaccines, says epidemiologist Simon Hay of the University of Oxford in the United Kingdom: You have to keep applying them at high levels to keep the disease down.
«It doesn't tell us anything,» said epidemiologist Scott Hammer of Columbia University, who chairs the meeting.
«I'm delighted they're close to finding the gene,» says epidemiologist Nicholas Petrakis of the University of California, San Francisco.
«I completely agree with that,» says epidemiologist and disease modeler Ira Longini of the University of Washington, Seattle.
«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.
That's probably not surprising, given the higher incidence of HIV and unintended pregnancies in the U.S., says epidemiologist Ward Cates, president of Family Health International, a nonprofit in Raleigh, North Carolina.
«This is a sign that HIV prevention efforts are making a difference,» said epidemiologist Paul De Lay, deputy executive director of UNAIDS.
Those estimates are wrong, says epidemiologist Allen Wilcox of the National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences in Durham, North Carolina.
The report «is a solid global summary, and it remains an enormously useful document,» says epidemiologist Chris Beyrer of the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health in Baltimore, Maryland.
Solid scientific evidence has shown that strategies such as needle exchange can powerfully slow the spread, says epidemiologist Kevin De Cock, who heads the HIV / AIDS program for the World Health Organization, which co-authored the report.
It's not uncommon for pregnant mothers in the United States and the United Kingdom to follow a low carbohydrate, Atkins - style diet, says epidemiologist and lead author Keith Godfrey.
Still, the risk to babies is low, says epidemiologist Richard Wakeford of the University of Manchester in the United Kingdom.
Most of the mothers lived near fields treated with several different pesticides over their pregnancies, so it's difficult to tease apart the potential risk of individual chemicals, said epidemiologist Janie Shelton, the lead study author.
The more rigorous PHIA approach «largely confirms» the UNAIDS estimates, says epidemiologist Peter Ghys, who directs strategic information and evaluation there.
«The different clinical presentations, and some very preliminary [DNA] sequencing data, suggest that the Hendra virus may be somewhat different in this outbreak,» says epidemiologist Hume Field of the Australian Biosecurity Cooperative Research Centre for Emerging Infectious Diseases in Brisbane.
«The first event in cancer is loss of communication among cells due to, among other things, low vitamin D and calcium levels,» said epidemiologist Cedric Garland.
«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.
Not exact matches
«We are saddened by the events that have affected this mother and her newborn,» Dr. Sarah Park, Hawaii state epidemiologist, said in the statement.
Erin Landry, 32, an epidemiologist from Beaumont who considers herself a Republican, said she also voted for Stephens as well as for Trump.
«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.
WA Health's epidemiologist, Dr Gary Dowse, announced the latest case on Wednesday, saying he expected more could arise.
«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.
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.»
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.