Public health is a field that's widely misunderstood, even by science journalists. That's because epidemiology is an inexact science, complicated by a large variability in the quality of the data it ...

The human microbiome, which includes the collective genome of all bacteria, archaea, fungi, protists, and viruses found in and on the human body, is altered in many diseases and may substantially ...

On April 2, 2024, Critical Reviews in Toxicology published an article titled “A systematic review of the epidemiology evidence on talc and ...

PLUME: A single-arm phase II trial evaluating the combination of pembrolizumab and lenvatinib in metastatic uveal melanoma (mUM) patients (pts) previously treated or not with tebentafusp. This is an ...

Overall, specific lipids and amino acids were indicated as the most common metabolite classes associated with breast cancer development. However, comparison of results across studies is challenging ...

European Journal of Epidemiology, Vol. 17, No. 12 (2001), pp. 1089-1095 (7 pages) Our aim was to quantify the association between hypertension and four well-known cardiovascular risk factors (obesity, ...

The media notoriously over-reports epidemiology studies. One day, coffee is bad for you; the next day, it's the fountain of youth. This isn't entirely the media's fault; epidemiology studies, by their ...

An ad hoc consensus committee of the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine will conduct an epidemiologic study of the health of veterans who served at Fort McClellan, Alabama, from ...

Nora L. Nock, associate professor of epidemiology and biostatistics, was appointed to serve as a member of the National Institutes of Health (NIH) Psychosocial Risk and Disease Prevention Study ...

The educational mission of the Epidemiology & Biostatistics PhD Program is to train students using an integrated approach that draws from the population and quantitative health sciences. These include ...