Word: epidemiologist
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...married. Attend church. Join the Elks or even a Jacuzzi club. Whatever, so long as you keep in touch. Such behavior may be the best prescription for long and healthy life, according to research by Epidemiologist Lisa Berkman of the University of California at Berkeley. Studying the lives of 7,000 people between the ages of 30 and 69 over a nine-year period, she found that extraverts are more likely to live longer than introverts, who tend to be overweight, smoke, shun exercise and drink too much. While outgoing types are inclined to stay in better physical shape, Berkman...
...appeared only in South Africa. But that is no cause for complacency. Tests showed that staff members at Baragwanath and 80 patients at another Johannesburg hospital also harbored the new strain. Though some showed no symptoms of pneumonia, others became ill and one patient died. The danger, says Epidemiologist Fraser, is that patients' relatives and hospital staff members can carry the bacteria in their throats and remain well, yet transmit the infection to others who will become seriously ill. Thus a seemingly healthy air traveler from Johannesburg could, within a day, carry the virulent new pneumococci to any part...
...chose MacMahon because "he is a first rate scientist and the best epidemiologist the OTA could find," a spokesman for the OTA said yesterday...
Langmuir participated as a consultant in a study advocating the vaccination program which appeared just before the program began and was chief epidemiologist at the Center for Disease Control in Atlanta for about 21 years...
...ever about the cause of the illness. Despite the efforts of researchers at dozens of laboratories, medical sleuths still cannot say whether the disease was brought on by a toxic substance or some unusual virus-though they appear to have excluded bacteria. Admitted Dr. William E. Parkin, chief epidemiologist of the Pennsylvania state health department: "It may be one year, five years or a hundred years before our technology becomes efficient enough to cope with...