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As part of my doctoral dissertation for my PhD in Epidemiology from the University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston,

February 13, 2016 saw the unexpected death of US Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia.

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.

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