Epidemiology in Biological News

Study finds MRSA in Midwestern swine, workers

... said Tara Smith, Ph.D., associate professor of epidemiology in the University of Iowa College of Public ... livestock and other animals when examining the epidemiology of MRSA. "Iowa ranks first in the nation in ... populations of swine and humans to define the epidemiology of MRSA within swine operations, and assess MRSA ...

Easton honored with inaugural AACR Outstanding Investigator Award in Breast Cancer Research

... breast cancer. Easton, professor of genetic epidemiology and director of the Cancer Research UK Genetic epidemiology Unit in the Department of Public Health and ... of Cambridge. He earned a doctorate in Genetic epidemiology from the University of London. In 1980 Dr. Easton ...

2 Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center scientists receive Presidential Early Career Award

... Health Sciences Division. She is also a research associate professor of epidemiology at the UW School of Public Health and Community Medicine. A nutritional ... the University of Kiel, and she received her master's in public health in epidemiology from the University of Carolina at Chapel Hill. In addition to Peters ...

Breastfeeding duration and weaning diet may shape child's body composition

... the influence of the weaning diet," said Dr. Sin Robinson, PhD, of the MRC epidemiology Resource Centre, University of Southampton in the United Kingdom and lead ... are enlightening," said Professor Cyrus Cooper, Director of the MRC epidemiology Resource Centre. "An influence of qualitative differences in the weaning ...

Penn medicine draws road map for elimination of central line-associated bloodstream infections

... Friday, March 20 at the 19th Annual Meeting of the Society for Healthcare epidemiology of America (SHEA). "We were only able to see a sustained reduction in ... factors into consideration," says Neil Fishman, MD, director of Healthcare epidemiology and Infection Prevention and Control at the 735 bed Philadelphia hospital ...

Lincoln Park Zoo awarded $1.5 million grant for new research institute

... The institute aims to integrate landscape and animal ecology with epidemiology research to create a holistic approach to ecosystem health as it applies ... to the foundation's generosity in the past, the zoo created a world-class epidemiology and endocrinology center and now serves as an important national leader in ...

Study shows California's autism increase not due to better counting, diagnosis

... no sign of abating. Published in the January 2009 issue of the journal epidemiology , results from the study also suggest that research should shift from ... Hertz-Picciotto, a professor of environmental and occupational health and epidemiology and an internationally respected autism researcher. Hertz-Picciotto ...

Discovery of new gene associated with diabetes risk suggests link with body clock

... the University of Oxford, the Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute and the MRC epidemiology Unit in Cambridge. The researchers have identified a gene involved in ... genes to diabetes risk," says Professor Nick Wareham, Director of the MRC epidemiology Unit in Cambridge. Other genes have previously been shown to be ...

Researchers recreate SARS virus, open door for potential defenses against future strains

... the likely progenitor of the SARS-CoV epidemic," said Ralph Baric, Ph.D., epidemiology professor at the UNC Gillings School of Global Public Health and one of ... coronaviruses move from one species to another." Baric and his team of epidemiology researchers worked with counterparts at Vanderbilt University Medical ...

Hairspray is linked to common genital birth defect, says study

... University College Cork and the Centre for Research in Environmental epidemiology in Barcelona. The study suggests that hairspray and hypospadias may be ... Elliott, the corresponding author of the research from the Department of epidemiology and Public Health at Imperial College London, said: "Hypospadias is a ...

Genetic predictors of esophageal cancer identified

... genotypes," said Yuanqing Ye, Ph.D., an instructor in the Department of epidemiology at the University of Texas M. D. Anderson Cancer Center. Major risk ... makeup," said Xifeng Wu, M.D., Ph.D., a professor in the Department of epidemiology at the University of Texas M. D. Anderson Cancer Center and lead author of ...

Entomological Society of America names 2008 award winners

... California in 2003 to begin work on a Ph.D. in entomology and an M.S. in epidemiology under Dr. Bruce Eldridge. He completed his degree in epidemiology in 2005 and his degree in entomology this fall. Using Bayesian statistical ...

New gene variant identified for nondiabetic end stage renal disease in African-Americans

... associate professor in Bloomberg School of Public Health's Department of epidemiology and the Welch Center for Prevention, epidemiology and Clinical Research. "While we know these genetic variations are ...

Second genetic link to weight and obesity

... explains Dr Ruth Loos, leading author from the Medical Research Council epidemiology Unit. "Several groups had shown that rare, highly disruptive variants in ... who provide samples," explains Professor Nick Wareham, Director of the MRC epidemiology Unit. "Without their willing participation, we could never achieve the ...

How what and how much we eat (and drink) affects our risk of cancer

... Scholarship at the National Cancer Institutes (NCI) Division of Cancer epidemiology and Genetics. Lew and her research colleagues from NCI say their ... Catalin Marian, M.D., Ph.D., a research instructor of cancer genetics and epidemiology at Georgetown. The higher their alcohol consumption, the higher their ....

3 Columbia University Medical Center faculty elected to Institute of Medicine

... M.D., is professor of obstetrics and gynecology at P&S and professor of epidemiology and of population and family health at Columbias Mailman School of Public ... and leads several research projects investigating contraception and the epidemiology of womens reproductive health. Most recently, Dr. Westhoff was the ...

Researchers find new gene linked to breast cancer

... have a greater impact, says Kristen Stevens, M.P.H., a doctoral student in epidemiology at the University of Michigan School of Public Health and one of the lead ... internal medicine and of human genetics in the U-M Medical School, and of epidemiology in the U-M School of Public Health. He directs the Cancer Genetics program ...

Sugary drinks, not fruit juice, may be linked to insulin

... habits, says senior author Paul Jacques, DSc, director of the Nutritional epidemiology Program at the USDA HNRCA and professor at the Friedman School of ... Nicola McKeown, PhD, corresponding author and scientist in the Nutritional epidemiology Program at the USDA HNRCA, does not advise increasing consumption of fruit ...

Moving to the US increases cancer risk for Hispanics

... "Hispanics are not all the same with regard to their cancer experience," said Paulo S. Pinheiro, M.D., Ph.D., M.Sc., researcher in the Department of epidemiology at the University of Miami Miller School of Medicine. "Targeted interventions for cancer prevention and control should take into account the ...

Scientists decoding genomic sequences of H1N1 using isolates from outbreak in Argentina

... or provide insights into virus evolution. The Mailman School of Public Health researchers, led by Gustavo Palacios, PhD, assistant professor of epidemiology and CII Director W. Ian Lipkin, MD, John Snow Professor of Epidemiology, and professor of Neurology and Pathology at Columbia University, plan to ...

1 in 6 health workers won't report in flu pandemic -- study by Ben-Gurion U. researchers

... with a willingness to report to work in an emergency," said co-author Ran Balicer, M.D., Ph.D., M.P.H., senior lecturer in the Department of epidemiology at Ben-Gurion University of the Negev in Israel, and joint editor of the Israeli Ministry of Health Pandemic Preparedness Plan. "Our results could ...

K-State plant pathologists develop online teaching modules used globally

... Bolivian collaborators received the American Phytopathological Society's 2009 Global Experience Award for a workshop on statistics in plant disease epidemiology and agriculture. The award also went to their workshop collaborators, Antonio Gandarillas of the Bolivia-based Fundacion PROINPA and Jorge Cusicanqui ...

Results from trials of DHA in Alzheimer's disease and age-related cognitive decline

... good source of DHA. Dietary DHA is also available in foods enriched with algal DHA or fish oils, and dietary supplements. Previous animal studies and epidemiology in humans suggested that DHA may be beneficial in people with Alzheimer's. Alzheimer's Disease Cooperative Study 18-Month DHA Trial in ...

Fruit and vegetable intake in pregnant women reduces risk of upper respiratory tract infection

... fruits and vegetables than usual because of the extra demands on the body," said senior author Martha M. Werler, M.P.H., Sc.D., professor at Slone epidemiology Center at Boston University. ...

Genetic factors implicated in survival gap for breast, ovarian or prostate cancer

... can be made toward reducing cancer mortality for patients of all races and ethnicities," says Dr. Hershman, assistant professor of medicine and epidemiology at Columbia University Medical Center and co-director of the breast cancer program at the Herbert Irving Comprehensive Cancer Center at ...

MSU lands $2.1 million grant to take part in national autism study

... Six study sites and MSU's role as the data coordinating center make up the Centers for Autism and Developmental Disabilities Research and epidemiology Network. The network was a result of the passage of the federal Children's Health Act of 2000. The study sites are in California, Colorado, Maryland, ...

Targeting children effective use of limited supplies of flu vaccine and could help control flu spread

... predict, it is unlikely that supplies of the new vaccine will be sufficient to vaccinate entire populations. In research published in the journal epidemiology and Infection , Dr Thomas House and Professor Matt Keeling from the University of Warwick's Department of Biological Sciences have used computer ...

Study finds colorectal cancer rates increasing worldwide

... in a peer-reviewed journal to present colorectal cancer incidence trends across all five continents. It appears in the June 2009 issue of Cancer epidemiology Biomarkers and Prevention . An accompanying editorial says the rise points toward a failed early detection and prevention strategy as well as failure ...

American Society for Microbiology honors Melissa B. Miller

... microbiology or antimicrobial agents. Dr. Miller has contributed significantly to the fields of cystic fibrosis microbiology and detection and epidemiology of MRSA, and is known for her research on the development and application of molecular assays for use in the diagnosis of infectious diseases. She ...

IFAR contributes to study that finds genes that influence the start of menstruation

... Douglas Kiel, M.D., M.P.H., the Institute for Aging Research's director of medical research, and David Karasik, Ph.D., director of its Genetic epidemiology Program. Genome-wide association studies have successfully identified many genetic variants associated with multiple diseases and traits such as ...

Study finds genetic links to age of first menstrual period and menopause

... underlying physiology and biological regulation of these traits," said lead author Chunyan He, who was a doctoral student in the HSPH Department of epidemiology while conducting the research. "Insights into the genetic factors influencing the timing of menarche and natural menopause might shed light on ...

Study finds novel genetic risk factors for kidney disease

... measure levels in urine or blood," said Josef Coresh, MD, PhD, MHS, professor in the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health departments of epidemiology and Biostatistics, and the senior Johns Hopkins author on the study. "The number of people with chronic kidney disease, including those requiring ...

People of higher socioeconomic status choose better diets -- but pay more per calorie

... of higher (socioeconomic status) and more costly per 2000 kcal has implications for epidemiologic studies of diet and chronic disease. Nutritional epidemiology has historically been based on the premise that nutrient exposures are directly linked to health outcomes. However, nutritional status is also ...

LSUHSC public health researcher finds reason for weight gain

... New Orleans, LA Liwei Chen, MD, PhD, Assistant Professor of epidemiology at the LSU Health Sciences Center New Orleans School of Public Health, is the lead author of a research paper showing that weight gain and obesity ...

Drinking 100 percent fruit juice is associated with lower risk of obesity and metabolic syndrome

... is linked to decreased risk of some chronic diseases," notes Dr. Pereira, who is an associate professor in the University of Minnesota's Division of epidemiology and Community Health. "One cup of 100% fruit juice counts as a serving of fruit and, based on our analysis, 100% juice consumption is associated with ...

Eating fatty fish once a week reduces men's risk of heart failure

... reducing blood pressure, heart rate and heart rate variability," explains first author Emily Levitan, PhD, a research fellow in the Cardiovascular epidemiology Research Center at BIDMC. "Collectively, this may explain the association with the reduced risk of heart failure found in our study." A ...

Springer editor receives Butler Award

... at University College Dublin, Mike Cooke is editor-in-chief of Springer's European Journal of Plant Pathology . His research interests focus on the epidemiology of fungal pathogens of cereals. The prestigious Butler Award consists of an engraved silver medal carrying the SIPP logo. The award is made in ...

Researchers identify specific lung cancer susceptibility gene

... treatment as radically as discovery of the breast cancer genes (BRCA1 and BRCA2) did," explains Anderson, who has led the multi-institutional Genetic epidemiology of Lung Cancer Consortium (GELCC) studying the genetic basis of lung cancer since 1997. "A proven genetic test could help us identify people at risk ...

Annual Michael & Susan Dell lectureship in child health

... Education and Conference Center Amphitheater in Austin. Obesity expert Shiriki Kumanyika, Ph.D., M.P.H., professor of biostatistics and epidemiology at the University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine, is this year's guest lecturer and will present, "Childhood Obesity: Which Children are at ...

Exploring the dynamic relationship between health and environment

... fellow Andrs Gmez. "Globally, environmental changedeforestation, dam building, urbanization, and irrigation projectshas had an influence on the epidemiology of many infectious and non-infectious diseases. But with new partnerships between city planners, physicians, ecologists, and others, we can design ...