We recently had the pleasure of attending a seminar by one of the world’s experts on the presentation of quantitative data and information.
Well, it’s October, and the World Series is under way. Good time to talk baseball I’d say.
The 48th Annual Meeting of the Society for Epidemiologic Research
The 1998 book Damages by Barry Werth chronicles a malpractice lawsuit in the US
One of the most important aspects of good research is proper study design; no type or amount of statistical analysis can make up for a poorly designed study.
The CDC reports in the latest MMWR bulletin that road traffic accident fatalities
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.
The annual meetings of the Society for Pediatric and Perinatal Epidemiologic Research (SPER)
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.
Corona virus disease 2019 (Covid-19) appears to have first infected humans in the Wuhan province of China sometime in late 2019.
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.
The Society for Epidemiologic Research, or SER, held its annual meeting in Boston, MA this past June 18-21, 2013.
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.
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)
Few scientists question the usefulness of randomized controlled trials in assessing the efficacy of medical interventions. Those who argue for more evidence-based medicine frequently highlight the importance of randomized controlled trials,
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
The international standards for neurological classification of spinal cord injury were originally developed in 1982.
The international standards for neurological classification of spinal cord injury were originally developed in 1982.
Parents of children with cerebral palsy (CP) often ask their care givers whether their child will eventually walk independently.