Showing posts with label studies. Show all posts
Showing posts with label studies. Show all posts
Monday, September 19, 2011

WHO: Reducing The Burden Of NCDs

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      # 5850   Although we tend to focus on communicable diseases in this blog, in truth, in a normal year about 60% of all deaths...
Tuesday, July 12, 2011

CDC Study: Risks Of High Sodium, Low Potassium Diets

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    # 5686     Photo Credit – CDC Grand Rounds     Another salvo in the excess-dietary-sodium wars was fired yesterday wi...
Friday, July 08, 2011

A Decided Lack Of Scientific Certainty

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    # 5680     Last April I blogged on a CDC   Grand Rounds presentation called Sodium Reduction: Time for Choice . As the fol...
Wednesday, December 15, 2010

Pandemic Field and Epidemiologic Investigations

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      # 5145   While not terribly severe, the pandemic of 2009 has been perhaps the most intently studied infectious disease outbr...
Friday, November 26, 2010

Eurosurveillance: The Temporary Immunity Hypothesis

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    # 5092     In September of 2009, news of an ( at that time ) unpublished Canadian study began to surface that suggested that t...
Saturday, November 13, 2010

Haiti: Three Non-Cholera Health Threats

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      # 5052     While the world’s attention has been ( at least briefly ) focused on the Cholera epidemic in Haiti, it is worth...
Monday, July 12, 2010

RCTs: All That’s Gold Standard Doesn’t Glitter

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    # 4717     Over the next couple of days I’ll be highlighting some of the interesting abstracts of slide presentations to ...
Thursday, June 17, 2010

NEJM: Enrolling Pregnant Women In Clinical Trials

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    # 4654       One of the more worrisome aspects going into pandemic of 2009 was the sheer lack of data on the safety of us...
Tuesday, March 02, 2010

Tip-Toeing Through The Minefield

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    # 4398     There was a sardonic one-liner back in the 1970s, after a decade of media ` scare stories’ about the dangers of ev...