Epidemiology News

David J. Dausey, professor of public health and founding director of the Mercyhurst Institute for Public Health, has been appointed a fellow in the American College of Epidemiology.

The outcome, in the parlance of data analysts, has turned into a so-called 'Spaghetti Plot'. But Bruce J. Swihart and his colleagues Brian Caffo, Bryan D. James, Matthew Strand, Brian S. Schwartz, Naresh M. Punjabi at the Johns Hopkins University Bloomberg School of Public Health, Department of Biostatistics , Baltimore, USA, have between them ... (more)

State epidemiologists confirmed last week that both patients had a form of Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease, which causes a protein buildup in the brain and leads to dementia and, usually, death.

Reports so far are sketchy but it is thought that the exact demographic affected is girls & boys between the ages of 11 & 17.

More than four months into flu season, South Dakota has confirmed just 34 cases of the illness.

Only 25 percent of hospital-associated Clostridium difficile infections can be traced to contact with a symptomatic patient in one particular hospital system, according to new research.

Fans of "Freakonomics" are familiar with some of its wild assertions. The author, economist Steven Levitt, makes correlations between people's behavior and economic and social outcomes.

MONDAY, Feb. 6 -- Women with a history of mental illness do not seem to be at increased risk of readmission to a psychiatric hospital after having an abortion in their first trimester, a new study suggests.

A new study suggests women do not get the same level of benefit from implanted heart defibrillators as do men who have the devices.

Since the rise of web search engines in the 1990s, scientists have scoured the Internet for up-to-the-minute clues about the next big pandemic.

The Port of New Orleans says a stomach virus outbreak delayed the departure of the cruise ship "Voyager of the Sea" this weekend.

AA letter signed by 76 international health experts and academics makes two requests of three senior members of McGill's Board of Governors : that they cease inviting Roshi Chadha - who is involved in exporting asbestos from Canada - to sit on the BoG, and to cease using and promoting the use of asbestos.

The Jeffrey asbestos mine, where production has stopped, on Oct. 7, 2011 in Asbestos, Que.

Oklahoma health officials say that Taco Bell restaurants were the source of salmonella food poisoning linked to an outbreak that sickened 68 people in 10 states last fall.

North Carolina public health officials are advising people how to avoid the norovirus after several counties reported outbreaks of the illness last month.

The diagnosis of acute gastroenteritis has traditionally been based on culture results of feces from patients with diarrhea.

Outbreaks of the gastrointestinal illness have popped up in at least eight counties across the state, including Wake and Orange, and are likely to be present in others, according to the state public health officials.

The Southern Nevada Health District announced that three guests from the Luxor hotel have contracted Legionnaires' disease since early last year.

MARK COLVIN: The decline of the Mayan empire; the Black Death and the Great Famine in medieval Europe and the collapse of the Ming Dynasty; what's the link? The ANU's Professor Tony McMichael says it's climate change.

ST. AGATHA, Maine - Attendance seems to be getting back to normal at Wisdom Middle-High School after a stomach flu left staff and students reeling and emptied a third of classrooms last week.