Sentences with phrase «state epidemiologist»

The North Carolina state epidemiologist recently quit because the NC DEP lifted a no drink order on wells surrounding a Duke Power coal ash storage site.

Logging onto the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention website (cdc.gov), or your state epidemiologist's site, can give you information about the geographical incidence of rabies.

In January 2016, when Dr. Schwartz was asked to serve as Interim Executive Director, Rollo stepped up to perform many of the duties of the State Epidemiologist while continuing to perform duties as a field epidemiologist.

Dr. Matthew Cartter, Connecticut's State Epidemiologist, presented to the State Board of Education Wednesday, on the implications of the H1N1 virus (or Swine Flu) for Connecticut's public schools.

State epidemiologist Katrina Hedberg, MD, MPH, said that officials have identified a little more than 50 cases of infection in people in Oregon, Washington, and California since 2004, the majority of which occurred in people with compromised immune systems.

«Tap water is safe for drinking, but not for irrigating your nose,» said Dr. Raoult Ratard, Louisiana state epidemiologist in a statement.

«We have anticipated all along that travel - related cases would be identified in North Carolina,» said Megan Davies, MD, State Epidemiologist.

NC State epidemiologist Jane Hoppin and colleagues from the National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences (NIEHS), the National Cancer Institute, Westat and the National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health (NIOSH) used interview data from the 2005 — 2010 Agricultural Health Study (AHS) to evaluate the association between allergic and non-allergic wheeze and 78 pesticides.

The lone dissenter on the vote was Patricia Quinlisk, state epidemiologist and medical director of the Iowa Department of Public Health.

The State Epidemiologist, Dr David Karatu, made the disclosure on Thursday in Gombe at the State Emergency Rapid Response Committee review meeting on the committee success and anticipation.

«We are saddened by the events that have affected this mother and her newborn,» Dr. Sarah Park, Hawaii state epidemiologist, said in the statement.

Not exact matches

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.

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.

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.

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.

«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.

Ohio State University medical oncologist and epidemiologist Maura Gillison has studied men with oropharyngeal cancer in three different decades.

Terryl Hartman, a nutritional epidemiologist and assistant professor at Pennsylvania State University, notes: «The contacts that I made and the collaborations that I established during the CPFP have continued to serve me very well.

In 2008 Columbia University epidemiologist Guohua Li reported that each year only one person in a million suffers an anesthesia - related death in the United States.

Michael S. Bloom, a reproductive and environmental epidemiologist at the University at Albany - State University of New York, said BPA, which is found in some hard plastic beverage containers, paper receipts and food can linings, is another chemical that may interfere with egg development during IVF.

Others on the team include a veterinary epidemiologist and an economist from Kansas State University, and a disease spread model designer.

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.

Research by Saad Omer, an epidemiologist at the Emory Vaccine Center in Atlanta, Georgia, points out similar abuses: he and his colleagues have found that medical exemptions are up to six times more common in states that have lax medical - exemption requirements or don't allow philosophical exemptions.

Marc Lipsitch, an epidemiologist at Harvard School of Public Health, says that the WHO's advice on the pandemic has been sound, and has reflected the state of scientific opinion.

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.

The map also shows that geoscientists gravitate toward Texas, physicists congregate in California, and epidemiologists go to Washington (the state, not the nation's capital).

«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.

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.

Cancer epidemiologist John Bailar of the University of Chicago points out that overall cancer mortality rates in the United States actually rose from 1971 until the early 1990s before declining slightly over the last decade, predominantly because of a decrease in the number of male smokers.

The vaccine, which consists of a virus that has been killed with chemicals or ultraviolet light, offers a good degree of protection, says Martin Hugh - Jones, a veterinary epidemiologist at Louisiana State University in Baton Rouge.

Randall Harris, a cancer epidemiologist at Ohio State University, has observed a 68 percent lower risk of lung cancer in heavy smokers who took aspirin regularly; women who took aspirin or ibuprofen for at least five years had a 40 percent lower risk of breast cancer.

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.

Given the symptoms of the disease and the rate of death, «C. novyi makes perfect sense» as the cause for the Glasgow outbreak, says Martin Hugh - Jones, a veterinary epidemiologist at Louisiana State University in Baton Rouge.

And with the onset of spring reigniting local transmission of Zika last week in the continental United States — where West Nile is widespread — ADE could give epidemiologists a new window into transmission and disease patterns.

In October, as senior citizens and others at high risk from flu waited in long lines for shots after half of the United States» vaccine supply for the season was lost, epidemiologists were already on high alert because of an ominous development halfway around the world.

Climate physicist Jeffrey Shaman of Oregon State University in Corvallis and epidemiologist Melvin Kohn of the Oregon Health Department in Portland believed that what might matter more to the virus is absolute humidity — especially because the evidence for the impact of relative humidity was never all that strong.

When pediatric epidemiologist Robert Byrd of the University of California at Davis heard three years ago that the state's Department of Developmental Services had reported a near tripling of autism cases between 1987 and 1998, he decided to investigate.

«Thousands of people are involved in handling dead animals in Britain, and unbelievable numbers of animals are lying around, yet we have only one human case,» says Martin Hugh - Jones, a veterinary epidemiologist at Louisiana State University, Baton Rouge.

Amantadine and rimantadine are primarily used to treat seasonal flu in the United States and Japan, for instance, in nursing homes, says Arnold Monto, an epidemiologist at the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor — but their use is bound to decline now, he adds.

«From my point of view, this is an excellent report,» says pediatrician and epidemiologist Nigel Paneth of Michigan State University in East Lansing, who led a former NCS site in Detroit.

«The Appalachian region, which extends from parts of New York to Mississippi, spans 420 counties in 13 U.S. states and about 25 million people reside in this area,» said Reda Wilson, MPH, an epidemiologist at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) in Atlanta, Georgia.

He is ideally positioned to make ECHO a success,» says pediatrician and epidemiologist Nigel Paneth of Michigan State University in East Lansing.

Epidemiologist Nigel Paneth of Michigan State University in East Lansing, who leads a vanguard center, says the new plan could result in a nationally representative sample.

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.

She is a clinical epidemiologist and board certified geriatrician and internist in Canada and the United States.

Spencer Lieb, senior epidemiologist at the Bureau of HIV / AIDS at the Florida Department of Health, states «the number of HIV and AIDS patients in the over-50 crowd nationwide had grown in recent years.»

Speakers include: Hedy Chang, MPP, Director, Attendance Works; Nancy Dube, MPH, RN, President, National Association of State School Nurse Consultants and School Nurse Consultant, Maine Department of Education; Shirley Schantz, EdD, ARNP, RN, Director of Nursing Education, National Association of School Nurses; Cheryl De Pinto, MD, MPH, Medical Director, Maryland Department of Health and Mental Hygiene; Zachary Faigen, MSPH, Former Biosurveillance Epidemiologist, Maryland Department of Health and Mental Hygiene.

Epidemiologists Richard Wilkinson and Kate Pickett studied income inequality in America's 50 states and the 23 richest countries in the world - excluding those with populations below 3 million, those that are tax havens, or those from which they could not get reliable data - to track the effect of income equality on quality of life, health and life expectancy, rates of violence, social mobility, and educational performance.

Brenda Bonnett, a consulting veterinary epidemiologist stated that, according to the results of her study of Swedish dog - insurance data from 1995 to 2006, «bulldogs are significantly more likely than other dogs to suffer from a wide range of health issues, including ear and eye problems».

If the decline in rabies is awkward for ABC, it's probably even more so for CDC epidemiologist Jesse Blanton, one of the co-authors of Rabies surveillance in the United States during 2013.