Epidemiologist
Epidemiologists are scientists that study the factors influencing the health status of populations. These populations may be defined by geography (such as the residents of a particular ...
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Epidemiology of Drug Abuse
One of the best ways to introduce an article on the epidemiology of drug use and drug dependence is to ask some basic questions that epidemiologic studies can answer but lab...
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Trends in Epidemiology Since 1950
Overview
Epidemiology is the branch of medicine that deals with the investigation of the causes, distribution, and control of disease in the general population, rathe...
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Epidemiology and Genetics
Epidemiology and genetics are two distinct disciplines that converge into a new field of human science. Genetic epidemiology is a broad term used for the study of genetics an...
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Epidemiology
Epidemiology is the study of the various factors that influence the occurrence, distribution, prevention, and control of disease, injury, and other health-related events in a defined huma...
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Epidemiology, Tracking Diseases with Technology
Epidemiology is a term that refers to the techniques and analysis methods that are used to pinpoint the source of an illness. As well, epidemiologists (...
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Microbiology, Clinical
Clinical microbiology is concerned with infectious microorganisms. Various bacteria, algae and fungi are capable of causing disease.
Disease causing microorganisms have been pre...
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Epidemiology
Epidemiology, the study of epidemics, is sometimes called the medical aspect of ecology because it is the study of diseases in animal populations, including humans. The epidemiologist i...
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Epidemiology
Epidemiology is the study of the distribution of disease and its determinants in human populations. Epidemiology usually takes place in an applied public health context. It focuses on the...
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Epidemiology
Epidemiology is the study of the frequency, distribution, and determinants of disease in humans. Its aim is the prevention or effective control of disease. The term originated in the stud...
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Epidemiology
The study of patterns and possible causes of diseases in humans.
Epidemiologists study short-term outbreaks of disease, called epidemics, and long-term diseases such as cancer and heart d...
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"Critical" (Putnam, 452 pages, $25.95), by Robin Cook: Call him a crusader. Robin Cook writes his thrillers not so much to entertain, but, as he once said in an interview, to "alert the public to m...
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Sanofi Aventis K.K., a pharmaceutical company of Tokyo, has
started an epidemiological study on 6,000 diabetes patients in 13
countries who are under insulin treatment to find out how to cont...
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Stockholm (dpa) - Middle-aged women who adopt low-carbohydrate
diets and increase their intake of proteins as proposed in for
instance the Atkins plan may risk premature dea...
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Wall Street hit by profit, credit jitters, Dow off 220 points
NEW YORK - Wall Street took a dive on Tuesday, weighed down by
spreading worries about the outlook for corporate ear...
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(Embargoed for release at 7:05 p.m.
) WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Women with short legs may
have a higher risk of liver disease, with both probably caused
by diet or other factors early in life, Britis...
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South Korean epidemiologist and public health expert (b. April 12, 1945,
Seoul
, Korea [now in
South Korea
]—d. May 22, 2006,
Geneva, Switz.
), became director general of the World Health ...
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DHAKA, Feb 3 (Reuters) - Bird flu has spread to three more
districts of Bangladesh, the livestock department said on
Sunday, taking the number of affected districts to more than
half of the countr...
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Women in Asia are likely to face increased risks of acquiring breast and cervical cancers in a region where screening and treatment remain too expensive for most, cancer specialists said Sunday.Bre...
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New HIV cases in Australia surged more than 40 percent from 2000 to 2005, according to study results released Thursday, prompting fears that drug treatment advances are making people lax about...
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