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• Saturated Fat and Coronary Heart Disease, Part I: Introducing Professor Rod Jackson

  
  Free The Animal — Authority: 497
  The other day I got an email from David Brown, proprietor over at Nutrition Education Project  alerting me to an exchange he and Jimmy Moore had with a professor of epidemiology in New Zealand. Now, the first thing you need to know is that David, unlike me, is a meticulously nice guy and he employs that ...
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• Mathematical and Statistical Estimation Approaches in Epidemiology by Gerardo Chowell

  
  Free Your Mind All Free Download — Authority: 161
  Mathematical and Statistical Estimation Approaches in Epidemiology | Publisher: Springer | Language: English | ISBN: 9048123127 | 370 pages | Data: 2009 | This book is intended as a primary resource for graduate students and researchers working in the field of infectious disease epidemiology. This collection of ...
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• Drilling Down: Saturated Fat Epidemiology

  
  Free The Animal — Authority: 497
  Ive got to get this reader data out there; sooooo, the post Ive been planning and writing to slam dunk a certain "researcher" from New Zealand will just have to wait until the first of next week. Id planned to incorporate that with this, per my style, but Ill just have to link it. Whenever back when, I did a post on ...
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• Folic acid supplements linked to childhood asthma

  
  Baby Chums — Authority: 583
  Folic acid supplements taken throughout pregnancy may increase risk of childhood asthma by as much as 26 percent, researchers say. New research out of the University of Adelaide in Australia has found that pregnant women who ingest folic acid supplements in late pregnancy may increase the risk of asthma in their ...
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• Kaiser Data: Infants With Genetic Diseases Receive On-Time Vaccinations

  
  Pathophilia — Authority: 468
  In 2007, the Vaccine Injury Compensation Program ruled that the family of Hannah Poling, a girl who developed an autistic condition after receiving a concentrated series of vaccinations, was entitled to compensation. The prevailing explanation for Polings brain dysfunction: Vaccine-induced immune responses ...
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• Diarrhoea kills over a million over-fives each year

  
  WASH News International — Authority: 113
  Diarrhoea kills three times more over-five-year-olds in Africa and South-East Asia than previously thought, new research finds. Some 1.15 million over-fives — thought to be mostly adolescents and the elderly — are dying in these regions each year from diarrhoeal diseases, according to the research, commissioned ...
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• Smoking during pregnancy linked to behavioral problems in children

  
  Baby Chums — Authority: 583
  Smoking during pregnancy may significantly increase the risk of behavioral problems in a mother’s child later in life. New research set to be published in the Journal of Epidemiology and Community Health suggests that mothers who smoke while pregnant are essentially toying with the brain chemistry of their future ...
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• Alcohol Consumption and Pancreas Troubles

  
  Narcononofga's Weblog — Authority: 129
  It is never surprising when study results again show that overdrinking is just not healthy!  Now the pancreas is added to the list of organs that are harmed by too much alcohol consumption . Throw in the mind and the spirit and anything else human – they are all harmed by too much alcohol . While studies ...
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• Possible Link Between High Blood Pressure in Pregnancy and Thinking Skills in Children

  
  Baby Chums — Authority: 583
  A recent article in the American Journal of Epidemiology discusses the possibility that high blood pressure complications during pregnancy could be linked to development of thinking skills in children. A Denmark study shows some association between high blood pressure complications during pregnancy with the ...
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• News, Public Service Announcements, Public Health: Hands Symphony and CPR Reminder

  
  EBM and Clinical Support Librarians@UCHC — Authority: 112
  Here’s a wonderful public service announcement from American Heart Association Hands Symphony Image Source: http://handsonlycpr.org/symphony/ - All rights reserved – Copyright 2009 __________________________________ This is an interactive visualization… choose the style of music, and click ...
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• Green Tea May Help Reduce Risk of Certain Cancers

  
  Find Me A Cure — Authority: 134
  Image via Wikipedia Researchers in Japan have said drinking green tea may be an important health resource to reduce the risk of developing certain types of cancer . The study appearing in the American Journal of Epidemiology suggests drinking five or more cups of the antioxidant-rich beverage can reduce ...
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• Evaluation of Immunization Rates and Safety Among Children with Inborn Errors of Metabolism

  
  Left Brain/Right Brain — Authority: 129
  Ever since the Hannah Poling case became public, and especially give the way in which David Kirby has presented the case, there has been a question of whether vaccines can cause regressions in children with inborn errors of metabolism (mitochondrial disorders are a subset of these). I discussed one very recent paper ...
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• The Sleepiest States

  
  On The Wards — Authority: 106
  Just as time and money are valuable commodities for most people–and often in short supply–sleep can be a particularly scarce one for many. According to a study published in the October 30 edition of Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report, approximately 28% of U.S. adults do not get enough rest or sleep for at least ...
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• Being skinny is dangerous for dialysis patients

  
  Thaindian News — Authority: 715
  Washington, Nov 1 (ANI): A new study has shown that dialysis patients with low body fat are at increased risk of death.“Our study indicates that body fat may be protective in dialysis patients. The results add to the increasing number of reports about the ‘obesity paradox’ or ‘reverse epidemiology’ in ...
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• Millions of Americans Infected With Pandemic Flu

  
  Pathophilia — Authority: 468
  From 1.8 to 5.7 million Americans experienced symptomatic swine flu (2009 H1N1 pandemic influenza) between April and July 23rd of this year. This estimate is based on a "probabilistic multiplier model" that adjusts for the underascertainment of pandemic flu cases in the...
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• Mortality rates reduced among children whose mothers received iron-folic acid supplements

  
  West Africa Doctors Network West Africa Doctors Network — Authority: 126
  Offspring whose mothers had been supplemented with iron-folic acid during pregnancy had dramatically reduced mortality through age 7, according to researchers at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health. Researchers found that other supplement combinations, including the multiple micronutrient supplement, ...
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• High levels of anxiety in pregnant women likely to cause low birth weight

  
  Baby Chums — Authority: 583
  Overly anxious pregnant women may cause low birth weights in their children, especially during the third trimester, according to newly published research. A growing amount of research is being conducted on pregnant women, searching for links between the mother’s psychological traits and birth outcomes. Among the ...
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• Mortality rates reduced among children whose mothers received iron-folic acid supplements

  
  Science Blog - Science news straight from the source — Authority: 616
  Offspring whose mothers had been supplemented with iron-folic acid during pregnancy had dramatically reduced mortality through age 7, according to researchers at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School
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• Comorbid Panic Attacks among Individuals with PTSD: Associations with Traumatic Event Exposure History, Symptoms, and Impairment

  
  Lancashire Care Library and Information Service — Authority: 140
  Comorbid Panic Attacks among Individuals with Posttraumatic Stress Disorder: Associations with Traumatic Event Exposure History, Symptoms, and Impairment, Journal of Anxiety Disorders, 2009 Jesse R. Cougle et al.. Abstract: Little is known about the prevalence of panic attacks in PTSD and their ...
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• More Tysabri-Related PML Cases Prompt Search for Detecting Risk

  
  Pathophilia — Authority: 468
  Last Friday, the reported number of Tysabri-related PML cases jumped from 11 in September to 23, according to European regulators. The news led to an abrupt drop in share prices for Tysabri drugmakers Elan and Biogen Idec. Identifying patients who are at particular risk for...
  2 weeks ago

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