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15 hrs ago | Monster.com

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Related Topix: Monster, Human Resources, UC Davis, Medicine, Infectious Diseases, Nursing

19 hrs ago | Milwaukee Journal-Sentinal

Meningococcal Disease Market Analysis and 2022 Forecasts in New...

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 .

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Related Topix: Medicine, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention

Thu May 23, 2013

CiteULike

Improving the quality of reports of meta-analyses of randomised...

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 .

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Psychology Today

How Austerity Kills

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.

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CiteULike

Accounting for Misclassified Outcomes in Binary Regression Models...

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

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Related Topix: Medicine

CiteULike

Can Changes in the Distributions of and Associations Between...

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.

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Related Topix: Medicine, Financial Markets

Wed May 22, 2013

NatureNews

The big fat truth

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

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Related Topix: Life, Food, Nutrition

Medical News Today

In The Resurgence Of Whooping Cough, Leading Explanations Don't Stand Up To Scrutiny

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)

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Related Topix: Infectious Diseases, Medicine, Health

92.9 Y93

4 ND cases tied to multistate salmonella outbreak

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

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Related Topix: Medicine, Biotech, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Healthcare Industry

Tue May 21, 2013

WMC-TV Memphis

Conference looks at community health care

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.

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Mon May 20, 2013

EurekAlert!

Leading explanations for whooping cough's resurgence don't stand up to scrutiny

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.

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Related Topix: Medicine

The Washington Monthly

QOTD: If austerity was a clinical trial . . .

"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)

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Related Topix: Medicine, Infectious Diseases

Sun May 19, 2013

Towleroad

Meningitis, Puerto Rico, Rob Ford, China, Russia

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

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Related Topix: Medicine, Gay/Lesbian

Sat May 18, 2013

The Mercury

Beat those winter blues

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.

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Related Topix: Weather

Fri May 17, 2013

Newswise

Expert on Animal to Human Diseases: Drivers of Disease Outbreaks...

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)

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Related Topix: Medicine, World News, Kenya, Agriculture, Science

Thu May 16, 2013

KSL-TV

Health department conducting statewide scan for brain tumors

"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.

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Related Topix: Utah Government, Utah, Health, Brain Cancer, Medicine

Drugs.com

Depression May Boost Stroke Risk in Middle-Aged Women, Too

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.

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Related Topix: Medicine, Women's Health

Wed May 15, 2013

Medical News Today

Huge Number Of Infections Prevented In Intensive Care Units

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)

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Related Topix: Infectious Diseases, Medicine, Hematology, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Health

Mon May 13, 2013

Balloon Juice

Worth Noting: "How Austerity Kills"

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

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Related Topix: Medicine, Suicide, US News, Liberal Political News

EurekAlert!

CLABSI prevention efforts result in up to 200,000 infections prevented in intensive care units

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.

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Related Topix: Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Medicine