Head and neck cancers (HNCs) form a diverse group of malignant tumors originating in the upper aerodigestive tract, ranking ...

Background Immune-mediated processes leading to childhood type 1 diabetes may begin in fetal life. We hypothesised that a ...

Ruth Link-Gelles, PhD, MPH, of the CDC's National Center for Immunization and Respiratory Diseases, who has been leading the ...

Our overarching aim is to develop epidemiological models that capture infectious disease dynamics and allow us to assess their effects on health systems and evaluate the impact of control strategies.

Landmark Studies Leading to Scientific Breakthrough SCHARP played an instrumental role in several landmark studies over the years. In 2011 a study published in the New England Journal of Medicine ...

Methods We used a cross-sectional study design using secondary data to develop binary logistic regression models of predictive factors for hypothyroidism prevalence at practice level using 2012 data ...

Research studies in cardiovascular epidemiology assessing the relationship between a primary exposure and a health outcome must account for the presence of what are often called third variables, ...

Questionnaires are frequently used in the exposure assessment of occupational and environmental epidemiological studies. Questionnaires may be the method of choice for assessing exposure because no ...

In June 2015, the Getty Conservation Institute convened a meeting at the Rothschild Foundation at Windmill Hill Archive on the Waddesdon Manor and Estate in Aylesbury, UK, to explore the possibilities ...

Methods: A field epidemiological observational study was conducted to describe the proportion and time distribution of all cases identified in the event. Categorical data were expressed as ...

Epidemiology is the scientific study of diseases and how they are found, spread, and controlled in groups of people. In just the past 20 years, coronaviruses alone have caused three major outbreaks ...