We recently had the pleasure of attending a seminar by one of the world’s experts on the presentation of quantitative data and information.
As part of my doctoral dissertation for my PhD in Epidemiology from the University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston,
In Doctors are not experts on life expectancy1 David Strauss and Robert Shavelle noted that some clinicians testifying as expert witnesses on life expectancy did not have a very good grasp of the subject.
February 13, 2016 saw the unexpected death of US Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia.
On 19 June 2013, Dr Tom Frieden, Director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), delivered the Keynote Address at the 46th Annual Society for Epidemiologic Research (SER) Meeting in Boston, Massachusetts.
We now turn our attention to 1998 study by Plioplys et al.
As we saw in Part II of this three part series, there is something wrong with Figure 4 in Plioplys et al. 1998.
In order to estimate radiation doses in space, I had to make some basic assumptions.
In Part 2, I detailed how I gathered individual measurements of equivalent radiation doses for locations in outer space.
Neural tube defects (NTDs) are serious birth defects of the brain (anencephaly and encephalocele) or spinal cord (spina bifida).
An extensive body of research has documented that people with serious mental illness are at increased risk of mortality in comparison to the general population.
According to Merriam-Webster’s medical dictionary, Spirometry is the measurement by means of a spirometer of the air entering and leaving the lungs.
We recently commented on obesity trends in the US. As we noted there, the CDC provides an online calculator that allows input of weight
This week’s Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report (MMWR)[1] highlighted new mortality rates for children due to Traumatic Brain Injury (TBI), as shown in the figure below.
Obesity is generally defined as a body mass index greater than or equal to 30 kg/m2. As the units suggest, BMI is calculated by dividing weight in kilograms by the square of height in meters.
Anyone who’s ever watched Deadliest Catch on Discovery Channel knows that commercial fishing is dangerous work. But exactly how dangerous is it?
In a previous post we reviewed the literature on the mortality of Major League Baseball players. We have also recently contributed two papers to the peer reviewed literature on this subject. (1-2)
By far the most commonly studied health outcome involving data from the MLB is mortality.
We recently summarized our findings on the mortality of Major League Baseball (MLB) players born outside the United States. In the source study we hypothesized that violent crime may have been responsible for some of the excess mortality observed for
Occupational epidemiology seeks to identify hazardous exposures in the workplace using various methods of research. The gold standard for such research is the occupational cohort study, in which workers are enrolled and followed throughout their care