Breast cancer up to five times more likely to metastasize even 10 years after childbirth
Credit: University of Colorado Cancer Center A study by researchers at University of Colorado Cancer Center and Oregon Health & ...
Tag: Epidemiology
What is clean breathing water?
Drexel and Arizona State researchers look at risk of infection from water in the air at home "Don't drink the ...
High pesticide exposure among farmers linked to poor sense of smell later
EAST LANSING, Mich. - A Michigan State University study is the first to show an association between unusually high pesticide ...
Partnership to supercharge vaccine production
Credit: The University of Queensland Vaccines to stop the world's next epidemic could be developed in record time under a ...
Racial disparities in asthma related to health care access, environmental factors
Analysis of data from NHBLI Severe Asthma Research Program In the United States, there are persistent racial disparities in asthma ...
Madariaga virus spreads to Haiti
A PLOS Neglected Tropical Diseases press releaseCredit: Morris, et al. (2019) Madariaga virus (MADV), or South American eastern equine encephalitis ...
Respiratory microbiome may influence your susceptibility to flu
Microbiome community linked to lower influenza susceptibilityCredit: Lee et al, 2019. Specific respiratory microbiome communities may be linked to influenza ...
Fighting human disease with birth control … for mosquitoes
Researchers at the University of Arizona have discovered a protein that prevents mosquitoes from hatching, opening the possibility of developing ...
Flinn Foundation awards 'Prevent HAARM' grant to C-Path and TGen
$400,000 grant aims to develop a genomic surveillance system to respond to antimicrobial resistant pathogens TUCSON, Ariz., and FLAGSTAFF, Ariz. ...
Hormone therapy may be best defense against knee osteoarthritis
New study followed thousands of postmenopausal women from the Korea National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey to demonstrate effectiveness of ...
Cancer mortality milestone: 25 years of continuous decline
Racial gap narrowing while socioeconomic inequalities widen ATLANTA--A steady, 25-year decline has resulted in a 27% drop in the overall ...
Drinking water guidelines in the US vary widely from state to state
Analysis of existing state and federal guidelines shows discrepancies in recommended safe levels of toxic contaminants PFOA and PFOS in ...
Montana State research shows gut microbiome protects against acute arsenic toxicity
Credit: Adrian Sanchez-Gonzalez BOZEMAN -- Research conducted at Montana State University shows that microbes in the human gut play an ...
Where will the world's next Zika, West Nile or Dengue virus come from?
Model identifies most likely wildlife hosts for emerging flavivirusesCredit: (T. Smiley Evans/UC Davis) After collecting data and comparing it with ...