. Scientific Frontline: Epidemiology
Showing posts with label Epidemiology. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Epidemiology. Show all posts
Monday, March 16, 2026

What Is: Zoonotic Spillover

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Scientific Frontline: Extended "At a Glance" Summary : Zoonotic Spillover The Core Concept : Zoonotic spillover is the successful ...

Study Finds Concerning Rise in U.S. Teen Obesity over a Decade

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Image Credit: Scientific Frontline / Stock image Scientific Frontline: Extended "At a Glance" Summary : U.S. Adolescent Obesity Tr...
Wednesday, March 11, 2026

Antibiotics can affect the gut microbiome for several years

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Researchers have now collected a second sample from nearly half of the participants. The analyses are expected to reveal which effects remai...
Friday, March 6, 2026

No overdiagnosis of ADHD, say experts

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Image Credit: Scientific Frontline Scientific Frontline: "At a Glance" Summary : ADHD Diagnosis Trends and Prevalence Main Discove...
Thursday, March 5, 2026

Arrival of Homo Erectus may have triggered Mosquitoes’ taste for human blood

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Image Credit: Scientific Frontline Scientific Frontline: Extended "At a Glance" Summary : Mosquito Evolution and Early Hominins Th...
Monday, March 2, 2026

Children with poor oral health more often develop cardiovascular disease as adults

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By analyzing data on 568,000 children, researchers at the UCPH have found that children with poor dental health have up to a 45% higher inci...
Wednesday, February 25, 2026

People's gut bacteria worse in areas with higher social deprivation

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Living in a poorer neighborhood in the could impact the make-up of your gut microbiome, potentially leading to worse health. Image Credit: S...
Friday, February 20, 2026

Toxic exposure creates disease risk over 20 generations

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Sarah De Santos, an undergraduate research assistant, and Professor Michael Skinner work together in the laboratory. Photo Credit: Washingto...
Tuesday, February 17, 2026

11 genetic variants affect gut microbiome

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A major international study has identified 11 genetic variants that actively shape the human gut microbiome. By regulating the intestinal mo...
Tuesday, February 3, 2026

Diagnosis of cardiomyopathy is on the rise

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Daniel Lindholm, cardiologist, researcher at the Department of Medical Sciences. Photo Credit: Daniel Lindholm Scientific Frontline: "A...
Saturday, January 31, 2026

Epidemiology: In-Depth Description

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Epidemiology is the fundamental science of public health, defined as the study of the distribution and determinants of health-related states...

Childhood lead exposure associated with increased depressive symptoms in adolescence

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Childhood blood lead concentrations with increased depressive symptoms in adolescence, with larger increases when exposure occurred later in...
Wednesday, January 21, 2026

Low vitamin D levels shown to raise risk of hospitalization with potentially fatal respiratory tract infections by 33%

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Photo Credit:  Karyna Panchenko Scientific Frontline: "At a Glance" Summary Main Discovery : Severe vitamin D deficiency significa...
Tuesday, January 20, 2026

Old diseases return as settlement pushes into the Amazon rainforest

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Yellow fever cases have begun to rise, spilling over the expanding border between the forest and urban areas. Photo Credit:  Thiago Japyassu...
Friday, June 9, 2023

Bat-Borne Sarbecoviruses Spilled Over in Southeast Asia Pre-Pandemic

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Elephant loggers bring in a timber harvest in Myanmar. Photo Credit: Tierra Smiley Evans/UC Davis Scientific Frontline: "At a Glance...

Alcohol consumption increases the risks of over 60 diseases

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Photo Credit:  Taylor Friehl Alcohol consumption increases the risks of over 60 diseases in Chinese men, including many diseases not previou...
Wednesday, June 7, 2023

Exposure to “forever chemicals” during pregnancy linked to increased risk of obesity in kids

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Toxic "forever chemicals" are used in oil- and water-repellant textiles, personal care products, firefighting foams, food packagin...
Thursday, March 23, 2023

Can Artificial Intelligence Predict Spatiotemporal Distribution of Dengue Fever Outbreaks with Remote Sensing Data?

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Image Credit: Sophia University Full Size Image Researchers train machine learning model with climatic and epidemiology remote sensing data ...
Tuesday, February 21, 2023

Using sewage to forecast COVID-19 infections

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Collecting samples at a wastewater treatment plant for the study Photo Credit: provided by Masaaki Kitajima Sifting through sewage for SARS-...
Thursday, February 9, 2023

Nicotine exposure during pregnancy may increase risk of sudden infant death

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SNUS Photo Credit:  Bengt Wiberg Infants whose mothers have used snus (a moist oral tobacco product) during pregnancy run three times the ri...