Word: epidemiologist
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...graduate of the School of Public Health, Foege is an epidemiologist who was involved in the campaign to eradicate smallpox in the 1970s. He was later awarded an honorary degree from the University...
...school's health clinic and - without having to press a button or flip a switch - be face to face with a psychiatrist. "There is a flat-screen TV, and that's where they can see the clinician and talk in real time," says Dr. Fred Thomas, a psychiatric epidemiologist who heads community-based mental-health services and policy for the University of Texas Medical Branch, which now includes five telepsychiatry locations in Galveston. "The clinician has a remote and can move the camera around and zoom in on someone's face to see changes in expression...
...December, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) launched a public health campaign in the U.S. encouraging vulnerable patients - particularly the elderly - to "protect yourself and the ones you love against flu: GET VACCINATED!" At least one flu-vaccine researcher disagreed with the message: Tom Jefferson, an epidemiologist with the prestigious Cochrane Collaboration, which has headquarters in Britain...
Acclaimed epidemiologist and co-founder of InteKrin Therapeutics, Inc. Christos S. Mantzoros has been promoted to professor of medicine at Harvard Medical School and professor in environmental health at the Harvard School of Public Health...
Overall, the authors point out, the absolute risk of suicide was small; among the more than 340,000 cases studied, 148 men died of suicide. But the relative risk was still quite large, says study co-author Lorelei Mucci, an epidemiologist at Brigham and Women's Hospital in Boston...