Latest Epidemiology Stories

Founding Registry Partners voice strong support for the shared, open-access registry able to collect data on any disease San Mateo, CA (PRWEB) May 23, 2013 PatientCrossroads today announced that the CONNECT open-access patient registry is now available for patient communities and disease organizations – including patient advocacy groups, pharmaceutical companies and medical researchers – to join. Founding Registry Partner organizations, which collectively represent 70 diseases, have...

RnRMarketResearch.com adds Latest Report on “EpiCast Report: Meningococcal Disease – Epidemiology Forecast to 2022” to its store. Dallas, Texas (PRWEB) May 24, 2013 This report “EpiCast Report: Meningococcal Disease - Epidemiology Forecast to 2022” provides an overview of the risk factors and global trends for meningococcal disease in eight major markets (8MM) (US, France, Germany, Italy, Spain, UK, Australia, and Brazil). It includes a 10-year epidemiological forecast of...

Researcher urges targeted vaccination of those under 65 in comparable scenarios As the world prepares for what may be the next pandemic strain of influenza virus, in the H7N9 bird flu, a new UC Irvine study reveals that the 2009 H1N1 swine flu pandemic was deadliest for people under the age of 65, while those 65 and over had greater immunity due to previous exposure to similar viruses. Deaths from flu pandemics tend to skew younger than those from seasonal flu because of "antigenic...

CHARLOTTE, N.C., May 22, 2013 /PRNewswire/ -- Duke Energy has begun the 90(th) year of its reservoir mosquito control program. (Logo: http://photos.prnewswire.com/prnh/20130322/CL81938LOGO ) Conducted annually since 1923, this public health program was started by company founder James B. Duke. It provides mosquito control along the shoreline of five of the company's largest urbanized reservoirs, including lakes James, Norman, Wylie, Wateree and Keowee. The program, which...

Researchers at the University of Cincinnati (UC) have found that the race and sex of study personnel can influence a patient’s decision on whether or not to participate in clinical research. The study, presented today at the Society for Academic Emergency Medicine’s annual meeting in Atlanta, that there is an interaction of the race and sex of the study assistant and the race of the patient. Lead author Kimberly Hart says that her team found that black patients, both male and...

CLEVELAND, May 15, 2013 /PRNewswire/ -- Researchers from University Hospitals Case Medical Center's (UHCMC) Seidman Cancer Center will present findings from two studies evaluating new technologies designed to address common barriers to patient enrollment in clinical trials. Results from a large-scale, randomized trial demonstrated that the use of tailored, web-based videos delivering educational information to patients before an oncologist visit can significantly improve knowledge and...

While global attention has for decades been focused on reducing maternal mortality, population-based data on other causes of death among women of reproductive age has been virtually non-existent. A study conducted by researchers at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health found that non-communicable diseases accounted for 48 percent of 1,107 investigated female deaths in rural Bangladesh between 2002 and 2007. The findings lend urgency to review global health priorities to address...

Revises funding announcements, guidelines, and review criteria to improve application process WASHINGTON, May 15, 2013 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- The Patient-Centered Outcomes Research Institute (PCORI) today opened its second year of funding of patient-centered comparative clinical effectiveness research (CER), revising its broad funding announcements to clarify key review criteria and application definitions. PCORI plans to award up to $81 million in this newly announced round of PCORI...

Lawrence LeBlond for redOrbit.com - Your Universe Online Despite three new deaths being attributed to H7N9 bird flu, no new cases have been reported since May 7, according to Nature News correspondent Declan Butler. Reuters, citing state-owned Xinhua news agency, reported yesterday (May 13) that China has seen three more deaths related to the new bird flu strain that arose at the end of March. These latest deaths bring the toll to 35, while the number of infections sits steady at 130....

Chinese scientists recommend strong measures to prevent a pandemic in open access article On 31 March 2013, the Chinese National Health and Family Planning Commission announced human cases of novel H7N9 influenza virus infections. A group of scientists, led by Professor Chen Hualan of the Harbin Veterinary Research Institute at the Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences, has investigated the origins of this novel H7N9 influenza virus and published their results in Springer’s open...