Epidemiology

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• Nutrition Graduate Programs in North America

  
  fresh healthy body — Authority: 454
  Find Nutrition Graduate Programs in the United States and Canada. If you’d like to achieve a Masters or Ph.D. in nutrition , you should first review admission requirements to nutrition graduate programs. Typically, prospective students must take an aptitude test prior to enrollment. Additionally, applicants ...
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• Saturated Fat and Coronary Heart Disease, Part IV: The Smell Test

  
  Free The Animal — Authority: 512
  In this Part IV of the series ( Part I ; Part II ; Part III ), I have decided to do go about this in a different way than Id indicated before. I covered the Paleo Principle in Part II, but more in terms of our having evolved to eat meat and not with a lot of specifics about saturated fat in particular. Accordingly, ...
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• CDC report 1 in 110 kids are identified autistic

  
  Left Brain/Right Brain — Authority: 131
  You’ve probably already heard—the CDC ’s estimate of the autism rate was announced as 1% today. This was published in an MMWR came out today, with the new CDC prevalence estimate of 1 in 110. I made some notes on the conference call , but I thought it worthwhile to make a few comments on the document ...
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• Heart 2010 (Vol. 96 No. 1)

  
  Fade Library — Authority: 146
  Heart 2010 (Vol. 96 No. 1) Contents page Fade Fave: Epidemiology: Out-of-hospital cardiac arrest in South Asian and white populations in London: database evaluation of characteristics and outcome Fade Skinny: Compares out-of-hospital cardiac arrest (OOHCA) characteristics in white and South Asian populations ...
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• CDC conference call: 1% autism prevalence.

  
  Left Brain/Right Brain — Authority: 131
  The CDC conference call was today. This call was about the new MMWR ( Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Reports ) that is due out. (The report is here , with an appendix here ). Dr. Catherine Rice, lead author was there. She gave the intro. Report is released today. “Significant public health issue”. ...
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• Is CDC to announce 1 in 100 autism rate?

  
  Left Brain/Right Brain — Authority: 131
  And, if so, is SafeMinds trying to play games with Google news to get their story on top? What happens when you are the first to break a big news story, at least in terms of Google News? Well, quite often your story gets to be the top story. On Wednesday, SafeMinds put a piece on the Age of Autism Blog CDC ...
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• Survey: Nation lacking in epidemiologists

  
  Covering Health — Authority: 135
  Nearly 1,500 more epidemiologists are needed nationwide to sufficiently carry out public health duties, according to a survey of state epidemiologists earlier this year. The Council of State and Territorial Epidemiologists has released its 2009 Epidemiology Capacity Assessment (PDF), intended to report on the ...
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• Instruction, Information Seeking Behaviors, Clinical Evidence: Teaching with EBM Databases

  
  EBM and Clinical Support Librarians@UCHC — Authority: 112
  This has been a busy month. The final first-year PBL class will be wrapping up, as the semester will be over on Friday, Dec 18 2009. On Monday, I taught an evidence-based medicine class for 28 third-year medical students, which I’ve been doing since 2001.  It is part of a week-long curriculum that all ...
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• The Giants Shoulders #18

  
  JOST A MON — Authority: 458
  In the first few days following the announcement of this edition of the Giants Shoulders carnival, I received a few articles that appeared to strike off completely from the subject matter of the previous edition. To wit, I hoped that I might be able to do for geophysics what The Primate Diaries had done so ably ...
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• News, Medical Research, UCHC Faculty: Immune Levels + Holiday Stress? Not Beneficial

  
  EBM and Clinical Support Librarians@UCHC — Authority: 112
  ” If you ever thought the stress of seeing your extended family over the holidays was slowly killing you— the bad news : a new research report in the December 2009 print issue of Journal of Leukocyte Biology shows that you might be right. Here’s the good news : results from the same study might lead ...
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• One in 10 Brit kids will become obese by 2015: Study

  
  Thaindian News — Authority: 730
  London, Dec 15 (ANI): One in 10 British children is likely to become obese by 2015, reveals a new study.The research team from University College London insists that if the current trend continues 10.1 per cent of boys and 8.9 per cent of girls aged between two and 10 will be obese within six years, [...]
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• News, Data on Health Care, Global Demographics: OECD Health at a Glance 2009

  
  EBM and Clinical Support Librarians@UCHC — Authority: 112
  Organisation of Economic Co-operation & Development ( OECD ) published its’ fifth annual edition of Health at a Glance 2009 – OECD Indicators on Dec 8 2009. The full report is available in English or French language; anyone may read the “web book” online, at no cost, on the OECD Statistics ...
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• Official Report: Nigerian Dead Due to Tainted Teething Product

  
  Pathophilia — Authority: 126
  Fifty-four of 57 Nigerian children died between October 2008 and January 2009 after receiving a liquid acetaminophen preparation that was tainted with diethylene glycol (DEG). Exposure to the branded teething product, My Pikin,* was determined in 96% of the...
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• Curly Hair Gene Discovered By Scientists Paving Way For Banishing Curls With Pills

  
  HairBoutique.com Blog — Authority: 140
  The American Journal of Human Genetics recently published a report about the discovery of a ‘curly hair gene’ which may pave the way for curly haired people to banish their curls with the help of a pill.Instead of the ongoing hair trauma of hot blow drying, hot ironing or chemical straightening, curly haired ...
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• When the USA 5 year cancer death rate is higher than socialized medicine, how is that lying?

  
  The Word Is Hope — Authority: 139
  One poster asked a question about why republicans are distorting the truth about socialized medicine. Here is one fact – Cancer rates in the USA are much higher than in the rest of the world. Everyone has access to the same drugs and same medical procedures. The question to ask is – [...]
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• Prolonged shedding of swine flu virus

  
  Effect Measure — Authority: 591
  Red wine has been touted for its health benefits but these dont seem to extend to warding off swine flu. The virology laboratory in Bordeaux in the southwest of France tested via RT-PCR over 1200 nasopharyngeal swabs between May 1 and the first week in October and found 186 positive for the new pandemic strain. They ...
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• Overall H1N1 Mortality in England Comparable to US Estimates

  
  Pathophilia — Authority: 126
  The estimated mortality rate of pandemic influenza in England is 0.026% (case fatality rate, 26 per 100,000), according to a report in this weeks BMJ. This rate is similar to the mid-level US mortality rate that has been estimated by...
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• The epidemiology of tuberculosis in two weeks: GO

  
  Ask MetaFilter — Authority: 606
  Help me get up to speed on epidemiology (and especially tuberculosis). Dearest Mefites, My meandering career path has dropped me into a new job: starting January 4th, Ill be a statistical research specialist on a big public health grant, with some data-slinging for several other projects on the side (all ...
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• Stress Makes You Fat – Scientifically Proven Fact

  
  Get Fit and Lose Weight in 2009 — Authority: 118
  For a while now we have known that there is a link between stress and weight gain, however, it was always thought that the reason why people gained weight when stressed was simply because they tend to eat more for comfort.Recent research published in the American Journal Of Epidemiology has now explained exactly what ...
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• Measles Initiative Needs Funds to Avert Rise in Measles Deaths

  
  Pathophilia — Authority: 126
  Lack of funds may stall the Measles Initiative, a multi-organization program designed to reduce the worldwide mortality of measles by 90%. Despite the fact that all regions, except for Southeast Asia, have achieved the United Nations goal of reducing measles...
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