Tag: Epidemiology

Surprising finding suggests obesity epidemic may not fully explain increasing rates Early-onset colorectal cancer -cancer occurring before age 50--is rising ...

UB-led research is first to report an association between long-term exposure to ozone and atherosclerosisCredit: University at Buffalo BUFFALO, N.Y. ...

A new statistical machine learning framework gleans the invisible and unobservable structure of any attacked network The human body's mechanisms ...

Credit: University of Colorado Cancer Center The incidence of early onset colorectal cancer has increased nearly 50 percent in the ...

Multi-ethnic study reveals DNA methylation sites specific to African Americans Boston, MA -- Everyone feels tired at times, but up ...

University at Buffalo research reveals how fluctuating air pollution at the Beijing Olympics affected local residents' bodies at the level ...

In a comprehensive study, researchers from Texas A&M University have determined that harmful particulate matter in the atmosphere can produce ...

In a new statement published by the European Respiratory Society (ERS) Tobacco Control Committee , an international coalition of respiratory ...

Helicobacter pylori, a globally distributed gastric bacterium, is genetically highly adaptable. Microbiologists at Ludwig-Maximilians-Universitaet (LMU) in Munich have now characterized ...

Dengue, also known as dengue fever, is a viral disease transmitted to humans by mosquitoes of the genus Aedes. The ...

Source of disease prevalence information impacts effectiveness of vaccination programsCredit: FEMA/Mark Wolfe Computational modeling of social networks suggests that vaccination ...

Credit: ISGlobal A growing body of research suggests that exposure to air pollution in the earliest stages of life is ...

Credit: National Cancer Institute New findings from a study by researchers at the National Cancer Institute (NCI), part of the ...

Study subjects interviewed people with vaccine-preventable diseasesCredit: BYU Photo The re-introduction of measles, mumps and other previously eradicated diseases to ...

Researchers in the UK have developed a new method for evaluating plutonium workers' historical internal radiation exposure in a study ...

UofL researchers part of a NIH-funded multi-site longitudinal studyCredit: UofL A new study hopes to help researchers understand what causes ...

Credit: National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID); Rocky Mountain Laboratories, NIH California Study Warns Obscure Q Fever a ...

First comprehensive study in Mexicali, MX looks at disease spreadCredit: Janet Foley/UC Davis In Mexicali, Mexico, an uncontrolled epidemic of ...

Credit: Brian Cohen/Pitt PITTSBURGH, May 20, 2019 - Backed by a five-year, $6.7 million National Institutes of Health (NIH) grant, ...

Many measures have been introduced around the world with the aim of reducing outdoor air pollution and concomitantly improving public ...