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This report "EpiCast Report: Meningococcal Disease - Epidemiology Forecast to 2022" provides an overview of the risk factors and global trends for meningococcal disease in eight major markets .

The Quality of Reporting of Meta-analyses conference was convened to address standards for improving the quality of reporting of meta-analyses of clinical randomised controlled trials .

While the recent global financial crisis has had a devastating impact on the economies of many Western nations, most researchers and experts have focused on the political and economic impacts.

Outcome misclassification is widespread in epidemiology, but methods to account for it are rarely used.

Although socioeconomic position is conceptualized by social epidemiologists as a multidimensional construct, most research on socioeconomic disparities in health uses a limited set of observable indicators and typically analyzes and reports gradients in relation to one measure at a time.

More and more studies show that being overweight does not always shorten life - but some public-health researchers would rather not talk about them.

Main Category: Respiratory / Asthma Also Included In: Infectious Diseases / Bacteria / Viruses ; Pediatrics / Children's Health Article Date: 22 May 2013 - 0:00 PDT Whooping cough has exploded in the United States and some other developed countries in recent decades, and many experts suspect ineffective childhood vaccines for the alarming ... (more)

Health Department epidemiologist Alicia Lepp says the cases all were in children under the age of 10.

Dr. Camara Phyllis Jones, a family physician and epidemiologist whose work focuses on health care equity, will speak Wednesday at an annual Mississippi conference on improving community health care programs.

Whooping cough has exploded in the United States and some other developed countries in recent decades, and many experts suspect ineffective childhood vaccines for the alarming resurgence.

"If austerity were tested like a medication in a clinical trial, it would have been stopped long ago, given its deadly side effects." - academics David Stuckler and Sanjay Basu, from their New York Times op-ed In the past week, the academics David Stuckley and Sanjay Basu have published two fascinating and powerful pieces on the relationship ... (more)

Epidemiologists puzzled over NYC's Meningitis outbreak: "What is concerning is that it is largely restricted to men who have sex with men.

Tasmanians are bracing for colder weather and the winter doldrums to start closing in, when images such as this snow-covered field at Lower Longley will be more common.

In light of the recent H7N9 bird flu virus in China and the spread of the novel coronavirus in the Middle East and Europe, Delia Grace, a veterinary epidemiologist and food safety specialist at the International Livestock Research Institute , in Nairobi, Kenya is available to brief media on the drivers of these diseases: urbanization, agricultural ... (more)

"There are good days and bad days. Life still goes on whether I have a tumor or not," she said during a recent doctor's appointment at the Huntsman Cancer Institute.

Women in their 40s and 50s who suffer from depression are almost twice as likely to have a stroke as women who aren't depressed, according to a large, long-running Australian study.

Main Category: Infectious Diseases / Bacteria / Viruses Also Included In: Blood / Hematology ; Public Health Article Date: 15 May 2013 - 1:00 PDT New research from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention estimates that as many as 200,000 central line-associated bloodstream infections have been prevented among patients in intensive care units ... (more)

David Stuckler, Oxford sociologist, and Sanjay Basu, Stanford epidemiologist, have a book to sell.

New research from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention estimates that as many as 200,000 central line-associated bloodstream infections have been prevented among patients in intensive care units since 1990.