Word: epidemiologist
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...evidence for even that tenuous link is hotly debated. "If MMR made autism worse, then we would expect to see different rates [between vaccinated and unvaccinated children] in cases of both autism and related disorders," says Dr. Kreesten Madsen, the epidemiologist who led the Danish study. But that difference did not show...
...what's a woman to do? Although routine mammography is far from perfect, it does detect many breast tumors at their earliest, most treatable stage, particularly in women over 50, says Dr. David Thomas, the study's principal investigator and a cancer epidemiologist at the Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center in Seattle. Still, he concedes, if you're in a high-risk group and you know how to do them right, regular, thorough breast self-exams may be worth doing. In any event, if you discover a lump, be sure to tell your doctor immediately. --By Christine Gorman
...version of the plan, developed locally by Harvard Medical School epidemiologist Richard Platt, is already operating in the Boston metropolitan area...
...know that incubation for prion disorders is typically nine to 10 years," says Jeffrey Davis, Wisconsin's chief medical officer and state epidemiologist. "We're talking about events that may have occurred in the early 1980s...
Mark Pereira, an epidemiologist at the Children’s Hospital and HMS who oversaw the study, said insulin resistance can occur in obese individuals because they have a compromised ability to process insulin. The study showed that for overweight people, consuming dairy products more than five times a day, as opposed to only once, can reduce the risk of insulin resistance syndrome by 72 percent...