Epidemiology is a field of medicine that studies the incidence, causes and effects of diseases in populations, and patterns within these. It has a key role in protecting public health and can ...

Global analyses of breast cancer incidence and mortality show that only seven high-income countries are currently meeting the targets of the World Health Organization Global Breast Cancer ...

They admire easy-carrying, fast-handling, traditional, lever-action rifles. Sadly, there aren’t a lot of lever gun cartridges to choose from anymore. The first successful lever-action rifle ...

One of the most tactile parts of your bike are its control levers, for the front brake and clutch. But it’s also true that they’re one of the most vulnerable motorcycle accessories; even in a ...

As the MDGs era comes to a conclusion with the end of the year, 2016 ushers in the official launch of the bold and transformative 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development adopted by world leaders ...

Any attempt to describe the epidemiology, aetiology, and prognosis of heart failure, however, must take account of the difficulty in defining exactly what heart failure is. Though the focus of this ...

Imperial Cancer Research Fund Cancer Epidemiology Unit, University of Oxford, UK Breast cancer is the commonest cause of cancer death in women worldwide. Rates vary about five-fold around the world, ...

Correspondence to Dr Prachi Bhatnagar, British Heart Foundation Centre on Population Approaches for Non-Communicable Disease Prevention, Nuffield Department of Population Health, Old Road Campus, ...

In recent years our understanding of infectious-disease epidemiology and control has been greatly increased through mathematical modelling. Insights from this increasingly-important, exciting field ...

Background and aims: Ferroptosis, a novel concept of programmed cell death proposed in 2012, in kidney disease, has garnered significant attention based on evidence of abnormal iron deposition and ...

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