Word: biostatistician
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...jolt to be told by the experts that human beings have taken life about as far as it can go. That is the sobering conclusion of a report in Science magazine last week by demographer S. Jay Olshansky and gerontologist Christine Cassel of the University of Chicago and biostatistician Bruce Carnes of Argonne National Laboratory. Barring an unexpected breakthrough in basic science that would forestall the aging process, they say, the era of rapid increases in human longevity has come to an end -- at least in developed countries. Even if science could eliminate heart disease and cancer -- which account...
...three researchers-Drs. Ellis Cohen and J. Weldon Bellville and Biostatistician Byron Brown-conducted parallel studies on two groups of women who serve in hospitals. The first study reviewed the miscarriage rates of 159 nurses. Among the 67 operating-room nurses queried, 29.7% of the pregnancies occurring over a five-year period ended in miscarriage; among the 92 nurses assigned elsewhere in the hospital, only 8.8% of pregnancies ended in spontaneous abortion. The second study involved 131 women physicians, 50 of them anaesthesiologists, the rest used as a control group. Only 10% of the pregnancies that occurred in the control...
President Reed is the nation's top biostatistician (a word he coined himself). Over the years, he has collected statistics on everything from cows to cars, once helped to plot a logistic curve by which scientists can forecast population trends of any city or country in the world. As director of the School of Hygiene and Public Health, and later as vice president, Reed also proved himself a topnotch administrator. Johns Hopkins now has until 1956 to finish its $5,000,000 building program, and to run along under a man it knows and respects. By then Reed will...