Ernest Drucker, an epidemiologist, uses the tools of his trade to examine the laws and their consequences.
Chris Beyrer, an epidemiologist with the Johns Hopkins University in the U.S., is not one of them.
Clapp, an epidemiologist, has investigated several instances of military exposures in the context of various illnesses, including breast cancer.
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Martin Bobak, an epidemiologist at University College London, who carried out the research, suggests it is a lifestyle argument.
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Otis Brawley, an epidemiologist and breast-cancer specialist who heads the American Cancer Society, notes such estimates are all statistical presumptions.
But James Hanley, an epidemiologist at McGill University, did question it.
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Indeed, everyone over age 55--some 60 million people in the U.S.--would benefit from statins, argues Nicholas Wald, an epidemiologist at the University of London.
The Mann award is given yearly in memory of Dr Jonathan Mann, an epidemiologist who set up the World Health Organisation's first Aids programme.
In March, Ronald Brookmeyer , an epidemiologist at Johns Hopkins University, compared the anthrax outbreak with another that had occurred in Russia 23 years ago.
For this reason, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention recommends alcohol-based products in addition to handwashing for health-care workers, says Katherine Ellingson, an epidemiologist at the CDC.
More research is needed to tell for sure if lead-shot meat poses a risk to people, said Dr. Steve Pickard, an epidemiologist at the North Dakota Department of Health.
"It's trying to identify those who are infected that matters, " said Prof Cuzick, an epidemiologist at the University of London and president of the International Society on Cancer Prevention.
In Tennessee, several patients have recovered enough to walk on their own, but "some of these patients are critically ill, " said Marion Kainer, an epidemiologist with the Tennessee Health Department.
However, Simon Cousens, an epidemiologist at the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, points out that such a pattern does not necessarily mean a disease outbreak is levelling off.
Geoffrey Kabat is an epidemiologist at the Albert Einstein College of Medicine and the author of Hyping Health Risks: Environmental Hazards in Daily Life and the Science of Epidemiology.
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"Just in general, when we look at cough and respiratory symptoms, there's a lot of overlap, " said Dr. Susan Gerber, an epidemiologist at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC).
"There are a few cases where no pig exposure could be found, so we think those are are human-to-human transmissions, " said Dr. Joseph Bresee, an epidemiologist in the CDC's Influenza Division.
Trained at Wayne State and the University of Michigan as a physician and an epidemiologist, Brilliant sees a near-certainty that another AIDS, ebola or bird flu is coming, likely caused by human-animal interaction.
The FDA has received additional reports of esophageal cancer in people taking oral bisphosphonates since 2009, says Wysowski, an epidemiologist at the branch of the agency responsible for tracking the safety of drugs after they have been approved.
Ezra Susser, an epidemiologist at Columbia, realised that a famine experienced by the Dutch at the end of the second world war had created an ideal set of subjects for a study of maternal malnutrition and filial psychopathology.
"Although any risk to humans from a bat bite or scratch would be low, we would strongly advise members of the public not to handle a sick or injured bat, " said Professor Martyn Regan, an epidemiologist with the North West Health Protection Agency.
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Despite this caveat the findings are concerning, and they underscore the importance of screening children and teenagers for obesity, and referring them to specialized care if needed, says lead researcher Ashleigh May, an epidemiologist with the CDC's division of nutrition, physical activity, and obesity.
"Our job is really to figure out what viruses are going around and what effect they're having, " said Lynnette Brammer, an influenza epidemiologist at the CDC.
Kabat is an author and cancer epidemiologist at the Albert Einstein College of Medicine.
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Yach, who is fifty-five, is an affable and smooth-talking South African epidemiologist whose specialty is non-communicable diseases.
"Family history remains one of the most important predictors of an event for an individual, " says Donna Arnett, a genetic epidemiologist at the University of Alabama at Birmingham and president-elect of the American Heart Association.
Arizona, for example, has seen a twofold increase in salmonella reports, with an uptick beginning in June, said Dr. Joli Weiss, food-borne disease epidemiologist for the state Department of Health Services.
What we can do, says Dr. Alex Crosby, a medical epidemiologist at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, is teach coping skills so that when an individual is faced with any number of risk factors for suicide, he or she will have a level of inherent protection and the tools to combat suicidal behavior.
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