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...Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), reported that babies conceived through what doctors call assisted reproductive technologies (ART) have 2.6 times the risk of low or very low birth weight--a significant risk factor for cardiac and cognitive problems. "Our findings are controversial," concedes Dr. Jennifer Kurinczuk, a perinatal epidemiologist at the University of Leicester in England, who co-authored the birth-defects study, "and they aren't going to be the final word on the issue. But parents should be aware of the controversy...
Dawson said he was happy at the University of Chicago but the better job prospects in the Boston area for both him and his wife, epidemiologist Alice Furumoto-Dawson, were a factor in luring him to Cambridge...
...sclerosis, or ALS--but the preliminary study (released by Anthony Principi, the new Secretary of Veterans Affairs) has a much broader significance. It's the first federal study to suggest that Gulf War service is linked with brain disease. A researcher who saw vindication in the report is Texas epidemiologist Dr. Robert Haley; he has been studying Gulf War veterans for eight years, hoping to pin down the cause of a syndrome that left them chronically fatigued, nauseated, anxious and depressed. He says his findings--that some veterans suffered brain damage from exposure to toxic chemicals on the battlefield--were...
...While the U.S. public now knows more about anthrax than it ever wanted to know, information about smallpox is less ubiquitous. Looking for answers, TIME.com turned to Dr. Lee Harrison, a medical epidemiologist and infectious disease specialist, also works with the Biomedical Security Institute, a joint venture of the University of Pittsburgh?s Graduate School of Public Health and Carnegie Mellon University...
...rural residents suffering from a lack of access to healthcare providers, or are they simply less apt to follow the edicts of a health-crazed media? The answer is probably a little bit of both, says Mark Eberhardt, epidemiologist at CDC?s national center for health statistics, and an author of the study. "On the one hand," Eberhardt says, "you have the issue of educating people about health issues: Some high-risk behaviors, like smoking, remain higher in rural areas than in cities and suburbs. On the other hand, we did see a lower access to physicians, dentists, and health...