Tag: Public Health

March 29, 2019

Scientists have combined the simplicity of paper with the complexity of quantum physics for point-of-care testing in low-resource environmentsCredit: Prof. ...

New Yorkers brace for self-cloning Asian longhorned tick

Columbia researchers warn that NYC's Asian longhorned tick population is larger than previously knownCredit: Center for Disease Control and Prevention ...

1 billion people will be newly exposed to diseases like dengue fever as world temperatures rise

WASHINGTON -- As many as a billion people could be newly exposed to disease-carrying mosquitoes by the end of the ...

Screening for colorectal cancer at 45 would avert deaths, but testing older adults would do more

Starting routine colorectal cancer screening at age 45 rather than 50 would decrease U.S. cancer deaths by as much as ...

Columbia awarded grant for opioid education and naloxone training on college campuses

March 28, 2019 -- Rachel Shelton, ScD, MPH, Columbia Mailman School of Public Health assistant professor of Sociomedical Sciences, and ...

Changes in onset of spring linked to more allergies across the US

UMD public health researchers say climate change is impacting disease burden in our backyards Human-induced climate change is disrupting nature's ...

American Association for Cancer Research honors Cancer Control and Survivorship Program

The 13th AACR Team Science Award recognizes St. Jude interdisciplinary team for its significant contributions made to pediatric cancer epidemiology ...

Data Science Day to showcase Columbia University’s most innovative research

Columbia researchers share latest advances in artificial intelligence, natural language processing, predictive healthcare, global radicalization and more Columbia is holding ...

Consumers view nutrition and health claims differently than regulators

During this unique study an international team of researchers led by the University of Surrey investigated whether consumers in the ...

WHO guidelines fail to detect half of chronic hepatitis B patients in Ethiopia needing treatment

Scientists propose revising the guidelines to take data from sub-Saharan Africa into account, reports the Journal of Hepatology Amsterdam, March ...

New study calculates alcohol cancer risk in cigarette equivalents to help communicate risk

The well-established link between cancer and tobacco may provide a way to help communicate the links between moderate levels of ...

The Lancet Infectious Diseases: Low levels of public trust during violent conflict may have thwarted attempts to control Ebola

A quarter of people surveyed during active 2018 Ebola outbreak in the Democratic Republic of Congo believed the virus was ...

Dramatic housing transformation in sub-Saharan Africa revealed for first time

Improved housing estimated to have doubled between 2000 and 2015 but nearly 50 percent of the urban population still living ...

Georgia State to establish prevention research center focused on migrant health

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) has awarded Georgia State University a five-year, $3.75 million grant to establish ...

A pan-European expert forum to tackle the complexity of big data in personalized medicine

On January 1st 2019 the Horizon2020 Coordinating and Support Action "EU-STANDS4PM - A European standardization framework for data integration and ...

GW Cancer receives $4 million award for technical assistance to comprehensive cancer control