Epidemiology News

NBC's "Biggest Loser" health and motivational expert, Bob Harper came close to packing the former Middle School's auditorium Saturday night.

A Douglas County health official hopes the H1N1 flu is easing off in the Omaha area after hitting a peak in October.

State health officials encourage vulnerable groups to be inoculated for H1N1 as medicine becomes available By Helen Altonn POSTED: 01:30 a.m. HST, Nov 06, 2009 About 75,000 children and at least 10,000 staff and faculty members have been vaccinated in this year's seasonal flu school clinics, and state health officials hope to see the turnout ...

In 2002 and 2003, screening guidelines for the cervical cancer-detecting Pap test were changed significantly, yet fewer than one-third of U.S. primary care physicians follow those guidelines, according to a recent study.

Men with lower cholesterol are less likely than those with higher levels to develop high-grade prostate cancer - an aggressive form of the disease with a poorer prognosis, according to results of a Johns Hopkins collaborative study.

Some parents hoping to protect their children from H1N1, or swine flu, are frustrated over a lack in the vaccine in Collin County .

Oklahoma state epidemiologist Dr. Kristy Bradley, whose predictions about federal officials' swine flu vaccination schedule proved correct, expressed similar doubts Wednesday about their latest update on the pandemic.

'In retrospect, it is striking', writes epidemiologist Geoffrey Kabat in Hyping Health Risks ,'how disposed the public [in the USA] was to believe that some form of environmental pollution - whether chemicals in the soil and water, radionuclides from nuclear reactors, or magnetic fields from power lines, or something else - must be involved in the ...

Sleepless in Seattle? Hardly. West Virginia is where people are really staying awake, according to the first government study to monitor state-by-state differences in sleeplessness.

The H1N1 virus, the first pandemic in 41 years, is proving to be more virulent than the seasonal flu, but the majority of people getting sick still are only experiencing mild illness, area epidemiologists said today.

Epidemiologists sometimes use the term 'elegant' to describe new viruses that threaten a new pattern of mutation, and subsequently pose an increased risk to the human immune system.

They lurk where you least suspect, preying on the weak and ill.Their attacks can be devastating, even deadly, and likemany enemies they gain strength innumbers.

State health officials are tracking the spread of swine flu through electronic prescription records, developing what they believe is a model that could help doctors more easily identify and respond to an outbreak of the illness.

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Nicola Sturgeon looks on as Adeline Miskelly becomes the first in Scotland to receive the swine flu vaccine Exclusive, by Helen McArdle Published on 24 Oct 2009 Scottish scientists are poised to launch a detailed study into the prevalence of the swine flu virus in an attempt to gauge a true picture of how much worse the pandemic could become.

The authors of the study, from Imperial College London, say the software will also enable members of the public to act as 'citizen scientists' and help collect data for community projects.

As health care moves to the forefront of the national discourse, new research in the social sciences argues that the health of the population and the success or failure of many public health initiatives hinges as much on cultural and social factors as it does on doctors, facilities, or drugs.

A new study finds that the H1N1 virus will peak before most people can actually get vaccinated for it.

Does carrying a gun protect you from physical harm? Research by epidemiologists at the University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine suggests that carrying a gun makes one 4.5 times more likely to be shot in an assault , than someone not possessing a gun.

A UC Davis study released today adds to a growing body of evidence discrediting a link between children's autism and mercury levels.