Tag: Epidemiology

A study of almost 500,000 women indicates that taking paracetamol or other painkillers during pregnancy is not responsible for increasing ...

Credit: Intermountain Healthcare Heart Institute About six million people come into an emergency department every year with chest pain, but ...

The University of Cincinnati created the world's first continuous-monitoring device that tests sweat as effectively as blood but in a ...

Credit: Conor Ashleigh, Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade, (CC BY 2.0, 2012) Recently, the sensitivity of fecal microbiological cultures ...

PITTSBURGH, March 14, 2019 - When flu season peaks after mid-winter, tens of thousands of influenza cases and hundreds of ...

US stands out for poor adolescent health compared with other high-income countries A detailed global study of the health and ...

Credit: Georgia State University ATLANTA--Youth living in the slums of Uganda who are infected with both HIV and sexually transmitted ...

Press conference in Mainz on Tuesday at 11.00 hrs CETCredit: European Heart Journal Air pollution could be causing double the ...

Credit: Photo from Thomas Unnasch, University of South Florida Your advance look at three new studies in the American Journal ...

New findings on blood pressure control in older adults Until recently, physicians had generally assumed that older adults benefit from ...

Findings highlight the importance of screening kids as young as 10 for suicide risk in emergency settings A research team ...

Collaboration between UK Biobank, Regeneron and GSK delivers significant new data and genetic insights A vast tranche of new UK ...

Credit: Dr. Simon Cox, University of Edinburgh Factors that influence the health of our blood vessels, such as smoking, high ...

New study reveals wide variations in how well or poorly people age; United States ranks 54th between Iran (53rd) and ...

Risk of breast cancer declined for women with BRCA1 gene and more than one pregnancy New York, NY and Paris, ...

Credit: NIEHS A new study finds vitamin D may be protective among asthmatic obese children living in urban environments with ...

University of Maryland School of Medicine's Dr. Kathy Neuzil is leading an international consortium of researchers working to accelerate introduction ...

Credit: Hokkaido University An annual influenza season forecasting challenge issued by the US Centers for Disease Control provides unique insight ...

NEW YORK, NY (March 8, 2019)--TB Alliance's new drug application (NDA) for the novel tuberculosis (TB) drug candidate pretomanid has ...

Judicious use of proton pump inhibitors and antibiotics may help reduce C. difficile infections NEW YORK (March 7, 2019) -- ...