Word: epidemiologist
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...most-fit groups, which included people in the habit of running up to 40 miles a week, death rates tended to be lower still, but the improvement was not so dramatic. In short, says Carl Caspersen, a physical-activity epidemiologist at the federal Centers for Disease Control in Atlanta: "You don't have to be a marathoner to greatly reduce your mortality. After that first jump in activity, you're not buying that much more reduced risk...
...hope lies is in the fact that those babies [that CDC says will be infected in the next four years] have not been conceived yet," said Sheila B. Noone, a clinical epidemiologist at the University of Massachusetts Medical School and a coordinator of WITS...
Others viewed the findings with caution, noting that a cause-and-effect relationship between passive smoking and cervical cancer remains to be shown. Still, declared Lawrence Garfinkel, an epidemiologist at the American Cancer Society, "cervical cancer should probably be added to the list of tobacco- induced cancers...
...single clinic tested positive for the virus. In 1988 the figure had dropped below 10%. In San Francisco up to 5,000 people first tested positive for the virus in 1981; last year the number of newly discovered infections was down to about 100. Asserts Andrew Moss, an epidemiologist at the University of California at San Francisco: "The epidemic is all but over with...
...disturbing implication is that AIDS is becoming a disease of the disadvantaged. Blacks and Hispanics make up a disproportionate 40% of all AIDS cases, and that percentage is sure to rise. Says Dr. Harold Jaffe, chief epidemiologist in the AIDS division of the Centers for Disease Control (CDC) in Atlanta: "The evening-news segments about AIDS used to show gay men walking hand in hand down a San Francisco street. Now it may be appropriate to show the black child in Harlem...