Public health is a field that's widely misunderstood, even by science journalists. That's because epidemiology is an inexact science, complicated by a large variability in the quality of the data it ...

The human microbiome, which includes the collective genome of all bacteria, archaea, fungi, protists, and viruses found in and on the human body, is altered in many diseases and may substantially ...

Many epidemiological studies assessing the relationship between exposure and disease are carried out without data on individual exposures. When this barrier is encountered in occupational studies, the ...

European Journal of Epidemiology, Vol. 17, No. 12 (2001), pp. 1089-1095 (7 pages) Our aim was to quantify the association between hypertension and four well-known cardiovascular risk factors (obesity, ...

Overall, specific lipids and amino acids were indicated as the most common metabolite classes associated with breast cancer development. However, comparison of results across studies is challenging ...

The National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine will convene an ad hoc committee to conduct an epidemiologic study of veterans who served at Fort McClellan from 1979-1999, in accordance ...

The viral infections of the upper respiratory tract are an important cause of morbidity and mortality worldwide and, among them, influenza is one of the most important ones, with severe cases ranging ...

The media notoriously over-reports epidemiology studies. One day, coffee is bad for you; the next day, it's the fountain of youth. This isn't entirely the media's fault; epidemiology studies, by their ...

Are We Taking Without Giving in Return? The Ethics of Research-Related Biopsies and the Benefits of Clinical Trial Participation Statins have been developed as a treatment for lowering cholesterol and ...

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