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...form that attacks the cervix (neck) of the womb may develop in women at any age from the late teens on. Because of both its greater frequency and its threat to women in their childbearing years, this type has received intensive study. The American Cancer Society's Epidemiologist E. Cuyler Hammond lists several social as well as medical factors that go with high cervical cancer rates...
...When an epidemiologist begins to mine a mountain of case histories, death certificates and related data, he can be virtually sure to find: 1) evidence tending to confirm well-established theories, and 2) something totally unexpected. That is exactly what happened to Statistician E. Cuyler Hammond when he dug into the records of 352,000 men and 440,000 women enrolled nine years ago in the American Cancer Society's long-range epidemiological study...
...group, to survive is to inbreed, and the Amish have more than survived; they now number 44,000. In 1963, to take advantage of this unique opportunity into the land of the black buggy, the beard and the modest bonnet went Johns Hopkins' Dr. Victor A. McKusick, an epidemiologist as well as a geneticist. And last week at Bar Harbor out came a detailed report on two forms of dwarfism, one recognized only a generation ago, the other brand-new to medical science...
...Britain's soft-coal-burning open fireplaces had already poisoned the air sufficiently to help kill Samuel Johnson in 1784. Now, combined with auto exhausts, oil and other chemical fumes, they are killing Britons in droves. London's Epidemiologist Donald D. Reid noted that although British physicians call the resulting lung disease chronic bronchitis, it appears to be essentially the same as American doctors' "pulmonary emphysema," now being reported with increasing frequency. Wherever it occurs, this kind of lung damage might as well be called "the English disease," said Dr. Reid...
...Alexander Langmuir, chief epidemiologist for the U.S. Public Health Service, testified that in the ten months ending October 1960, the national rate for all viral hepatitis was 26 per 100,000. But among Weiner's 329 patients for the period, 40 were diagnosed as having hepatitis, "for an astronomical rate of 12,000 per 100,000." Expert witnesses agreed that this could not have been by chance...