The American College of Preventive Medicine (ACPM) is a medical professional society that represents and supports preventive medicine physicians in their roles as public health and health systems leaders.
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The study is in the American Journal of Preventive Medicine.
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PREVENTIVE MEDICINE, WOODLAND STYLE We'll often go hiking as a family.
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The survey was published in the journal Preventive Medicine in 2014.
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The findings were published Monday in the American Journal of Preventive Medicine.
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Why is the preventive medicine specialty particularly vulnerable with this budget proposal?
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Schaffner is a professor of preventive medicine at Vanderbilt University Medical Center.
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The journal Preventive Medicine devoted an entire issue to HPV testing in February.
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Her cancer trajectory gives me a glimpse into what preventive medicine can do.
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Because now we're talking about the way we do detective work in preventive medicine.
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It also required insurance companies to cover preventive medicine with no copayment or deductible.
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The story corrects journal name in paragraph 5 to American Journal of Preventive Medicine
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Instead, the money is spent on treatments deemed more cost effective including preventive medicine.
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Dr. Robert Carr, MD, MPH, FACPM, is president of The American College of Preventive Medicine.
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No vaccination or preventive medicine for Zika exists, and existing treatment options are severely limited.
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If you want to be useful longer or do aging reversal, that could be preventive medicine.
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That's also valuable for preventive medicine—for patients at higher risk of HIV exposure, for example.
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As proof, the Smarter Lunchrooms Movement cites the JAMA Pediatrics and Preventive Medicine studies, among others.
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This study, published in Preventive Medicine, was supposed to be corrected, as BuzzFeed News previously reported.
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DANIEL S. BLUMENTHAL Carlisle, Pa. The writer is president of the American College of Preventive Medicine.
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Dr. William Schaffner, head of preventive medicine at Vanderbilt University medical school, said the decision was rational.
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Some of the biggest names in dieting, organic agriculture and preventive medicine died at surprisingly young ages.
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Preventive medicine barely existed before Baker came to see it as so essential, in the early 1900s.
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"This is very, very exciting," said Dr. William Schaffner, a professor of preventive medicine at Vanderbilt University.
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Or if it's required for the purposes of preventive medicine or necessary for reasons of public interest.
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The Breakdown MELBOURNE, Australia — Australia's carefree attitude toward preventive medicine may have met its match: the flu.
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The task force is made up of volunteers who are experts in primary care and preventive medicine.
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For example, reviewers were generally positive about what ended up being a controversial 2012 study in Preventive Medicine.
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The problem is especially concerning among children and teens, according to the latest study published in Preventive Medicine.
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Fortunately, when working to promote healthy company culture, founders can look to employment law for some preventive medicine.
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"Zika is new on everyone's radar screen," said Dr. William Schaffner, chair of preventive medicine at Vanderbilt University.
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One way to do achieve this is through engaging and encouraging pediatric trainees to pursue Preventive Medicine training.
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"Trust is critical for the demand of preventive medicine, such as vaccines," Martinez-Bravo told Tonic via email.
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His father, Norman, and his mother, the former Jessie Browne, were doctors teaching preventive medicine at Christian missions.
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Access to personalized genomics is likely to revolutionize the way patients view preventive medicine and their access to health.
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There is no cure for or preventive medicine that can stop dementia and its most common form, Alzheimer's disease.
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There was little change in the other community, according to the results in the American Journal of Preventive Medicine.
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However, in addition to research, we must train pediatricians, pediatric cardiologists, and other health care providers in preventive medicine.
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A list of required benefits that include preventive medicine and maternity care will still be required of all plans.
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A new report from the American Journal of Preventive Medicine suggests an unhealthy relationship between soda giants and health groups.
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Part of preventive medicine for the body, mind and soul is to immerse yourself in the forest for long periods.
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Because of this flurry of lawsuits, 28 states passed laws requiring insurance plans to cover preventive medicine, including birth control.
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A separate study in the American Journal of Preventive Medicine, meanwhile, found just how popular vaping is among young people.
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Aspirin's benefits as a primary prevention likely overstated Dr. John McNeil, a professor in the Department of Epidemiology and Preventive Medicine at Monash University's School of Public Health and Preventive Medicine in Australia, said "it is likely" that the new study slightly overstated the benefits of aspirin to prevent a first stroke or heart attack.
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A 2015 study in the journal Preventive Medicine found that the law decreased the firearm suicide rate by an estimated 15.4%.
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My intention is to help connect you to paths of healing through food, meditation, preventive medicine and the power of love.
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The seminar teaches medical students how to counsel their patients to exercise, one of the most effective forms of preventive medicine.
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According to a 2006 study in the American Journal of Preventive Medicine, dog owners walked nearly twice as much as nonowners.
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However, in the recently-passed fiscal 2017 federal budget, funding for preventive medicine residency programs was reduced by nearly 40 percent.
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Along with a group of health experts, I edited a supplement for the American Journal of Preventive Medicine published on Jan.
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"It's a very pervasive issue," says Pool, a research assistant professor of preventive medicine at Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine.
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"Preventive medicine is focusing on older people, how to keep them out of nursing homes, alive and healthy," Dr. McNeil said.
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The bride's father, an internist, works at the Colorado Center for Preventive Medicine in Denver, of which he is the founder.
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The American Board of Preventive Medicine has a directory of doctors in the United States who are board-certified in addiction medicine.
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It takes more than a picture, said Dennis McCarty, a professor at Oregon Health & Science University's Department of Public Health & Preventive Medicine.
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This infrastructure can be built on both ends: by expanding the preventive medicine residency training pipeline, while increasing coverage of preventive services.
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Not all constant phone use was considered addictive, said Steven Sussman, a professor of preventive medicine at the University of Southern California.
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The 16-member panel of preventive medicine and epidemiology experts is independent of the federal agency, and advises medical professionals on screenings.
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The American College of Physicians and the American College of Preventive Medicine do not have any current recommendations on skin cancer screenings.
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Little is known about drinking in the period before reporting for duty, the researchers write in the American Journal of Preventive Medicine.
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"It looks like a way to prove that social distancing works," said Dr. William Schaffner, a preventive medicine expert at Vanderbilt University.
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"This is a psychological thing," Dr. William Schaffner, a professor of preventive medicine at the Vanderbilt University School of Medicine, told CNN.
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"We are indeed all Flint," says Dr. Philip Landrigan, a professor of preventive medicine at the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai.
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"Influenza is an old friend, or should I say, enemy," said Dr. William Schaffner, professor of preventive medicine health policy at Vanderbilt University.
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"This opens up a whole new range of prevention issues," said Dr. William Schaffner, chief of preventive medicine at Vanderbilt University Medical School.
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But my dad does happen to be a preventive medicine doctor and I thought that sharing my story can probably help somebody else.
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Stephanie Zaza, president of the American College of Preventive Medicine, said communities with testing sites need to clearly communicate who should be tested.
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"The main thing we emphasize is hand hygiene," said Dr. William Schaffner, professor of preventive medicine at the Vanderbilt University School of Medicine.
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The study, in the American Journal of Preventive Medicine, controlled for age, sex, body mass index, high blood pressure, high cholesterol and diabetes.
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We must carefully consider where the money is going and support research and applications of preventive medicine as well as novel medical technologies.
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"A 2012 study in Preventive Medicine reported that schoolchildren ate more vegetables at lunch when they had catchy names like "X-Ray Vision Carrots.
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PETER ROGATZ Port Washington, N.Y. The writer, a doctor who specializes in preventive medicine, is vice president of End of Life Choices New York.
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One of the most concerning cuts is the elimination of the sole source of federal support for our nation's Preventive Medicine Residency training programs.
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The study, published in Maturitas, was led by Elena Lobo of the Department of Preventive Medicine and Public Health at Zaragoza University in Spain.
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"It's important that the insurance that people with lower income can obtain puts an emphasis on primary care medicine and preventive medicine," said Odutayo.
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Lynch, who was chairman of preventive medicine at Creighton University School of Medicine in Omaha, Nebraska, established the Hereditary Cancer Center there in 1984.
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This article was reviewed by Andrew Bowman, MD, DVM, who is an associate professor with the Department of Veterinary Preventive Medicine at Ohio State.
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"It looks like a way to prove that social distancing works," said Dr. William Schaffner, a preventive medicine expert at Vanderbilt University's medical school.
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Dr. William Schaffner, professor of preventive medicine and Vanderbilt University School of Medicine, told Insider that this isn't always feasible, especially with young kids.
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According to a study in The American Journal of Preventive Medicine, the shift saved an average of 14.2 lives per 100,000 people each year.
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"Daunting" is how Dr. JoAnn Manson, the chief of preventive medicine at Brigham and Women's Hospital, describes the situation for patients and their doctors.
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" — Mari Carlos, department of preventive medicine "As an alumna of U.S.C. and one of three generations of Trojans, I think Mr. Nikias should resign.
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ANNIE SPARROW, NEW YORK The writer is an assistant professor of pediatrics and preventive medicine at the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai.
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Those people are also the poorest in those countries; wealthier people have access to preventive medicine and lifestyles that keep the disease at bay.
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According to a new study published in the American Journal of Preventive Medicine, actual opioid deaths for 2014 were 24 percent higher than previously estimated.
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The study was conducted by the World Action on Salt & Health (WASH) at the Wolfson Institute of Preventive Medicine of Queen Mary University of London.
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However, an association with coffee consumption was not found, said Marilyn Cornelis, assistant professor of preventive medicine at Northwestern University who led the 2014 study.
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Reducing our ability to prevent and reduce obesity through cutting preventive medicine funding will thus add far more costs to our nations' ever growing debt.
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Preventive medicine is not only good for the patients and quality of care; it also helps prevent disease and ultimately decreases the cost of healthcare.
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Dr. Ornish is a professor of medicine at the University of California at San Francisco and founder of the Preventive Medicine Research Institute in Sausalito.
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The study, released in the American Journal of Preventive Medicine on Monday, followed more than 32,000 vapers, smokers, and non-smokers from 2013 to 2016.
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"It gives it a quasi-legitimacy that I frankly find frightening," said William Schaffner, a professor of preventive medicine and infectious diseases at Vanderbilt University.
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According to a new study published in the American Journal of Preventive Medicine, more social media usage is actually associated with increased feelings of social isolation.
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"I remain very worried that we will not commit the necessary resources," said Stefan Kertesz, professor of preventive medicine at the University of Alabama at Birmingham.
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US 7th Fleet said Saturday that members of Navy Forward Deployed Preventive Medicine Units and Naval Medical Research Center embarked aboard several ships in the Pacific.
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The new meta-analysis was done by international researchers from the Queen Mary University of London, the Wolfson Institute of Preventive Medicine, and Action on Salt.
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"Despite discussions between museum staff, management and its preventive [medicine] doctor, the Louvre was unable to open today," said Sophie Grange, the assistant director of communications.
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Her mother is a professor of orthopedics and physical rehabilitation and preventive medicine and an orthopedic researcher at the University of Massachusetts Medical School in Worcester.
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Before Ellen Williams was a blogger and writer, and co-founder of Sisterhood of the Sensible Moms, she received her medical degree and focused on preventive medicine.
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He was a clinician for 15 years at a practice in central Texas and is board-certified in both family medicine and preventive medicine, the biography says.
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Mercedes Carnethon Ph.D. is the Mary Harris Thompson Professor of Preventive Medicine and Chief of the Division of Epidemiology at the Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine.
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A new study in the American Journal of Preventive Medicine documents the beverage industry's strategy to silence health critics and win over unlikely allies against soda regulations.
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His father, who is a clinical professor based in Woodbridge, teaches online courses for students in the department of preventive medicine at the University of Southern California.
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Because of a trial published in The American Journal of Preventive Medicine, we know that an intensive lifestyle intervention works better than metformin to promote weight loss.
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Dr. Francine M. Ducharme, a professor of pediatrics and social and preventive medicine at the University of Montreal, has studied the efficacy and safety of asthma management.
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Dr. Luis Fernando Gómez, a professor of preventive medicine at Javeriana University in Bogotá who backed the tax measure, said Postobón's allegations about the commercial were disingenuous.
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In addition, there are also American professor of preventive medicine told us that they have confidence in the ability of Chinese health care workers and related authorities.
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The study, published Friday in the "American Journal of Preventive Medicine," was led by the University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine and UPMC Children's Hospital of Pittsburgh.
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ALETHA MAYBANK, NEW YORK The writer, a doctor of preventive medicine, is deputy commissioner and director of the Center for Health Equity, New York City Health Department.
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The researchers have now put out two studies with their findings so far, published by the American Journal of Preventive Medicine and the International Journal of Drug Policy.
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"Last year was funny in a way," said Dr. William Schaffner, National Foundation for Infectious Diseases medical director and professor of preventive medicine at Vanderbilt University Medical Center.
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This study, running in Thursday's edition of the American Journal of Preventive Medicine, found that laws that limit kids' access to flavored products worked to change that trend.
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Yet a new study published in Preventive Medicine found that a majority of Americans oppose both — and stigmatizing attitudes toward people with addiction appear to be to blame.
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It's true that people don't generally start vaping with e-liquids flavored to taste like cigarettes, according to a 2017 study published in the journal Preventive Medicine Reports.
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Researchers led by Adam Leventhal, a professor of preventive medicine at the University of Southern California, surveyed high school sophomores at 10 different schools in Los Angeles County.
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A new study published in the journal Preventive Medicine Reports found that perfume allergies can even be severe enough to set off asthma attacks, migraines, and respiratory difficulties.
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Managing demand will involve not just uncontroversial measures such as more emphasis on preventive medicine, but toxic ones such as introducing charges for services that have been free.
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The study, in the American Journal of Preventive Medicine, controlled for age, sex, parental age, degree of urbanization and history of mental illness in a parent or sibling.
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" It pointed to an article in The American Journal of Medicine stating that classifying epinephrine as a preventive medicine could "increase patient access, improve outcomes, and save lives.
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Reading is a safer bet at bedtime, noted Lauren Hale, Professor of Family, Population, and Preventive Medicine at the Stony Brook University School of Medicine in New York.
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My colleagues and I recommend a similar plan for SNAP in "A Proposal for Improvements in the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program" in the American Journal of Preventive Medicine.
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But as Dr. William Schaffner, a professor of preventive medicine at the Vanderbilt University School of Medicine, told The New York Times yesterday, we must do it correctly.
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A systematic review published in the American Journal of Preventive Medicine found that there were many studies that identified associations with sitting at work and poor health outcomes.
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"Our society puts emphasis on curative medicine, rather than preventive medicine," she told Columbia Medicine, a publication of Columbia University Vagelos College of Physicians and Surgeons, in 2016.
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Within three years, the ban had saved an average of 0.53 lives per 100,000 people a year, according to a study in the American Journal of Preventive Medicine.
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Earlier this week, a report published by The American Journal of Preventive Medicine found that the number of deaths from opioid overdoses between 2008 and 2014 was likely underestimated.
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The Medicaid population, which is [on] a free credit card, as a group, do probably the least preventive medicine and taking care of themselves and eating healthy and exercising.
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"This could be a chance finding," said Dr. JoAnn Manson, a director of the study and the chief of the Division of Preventive Medicine at Brigham and Women's Hospital.
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Researchers led by Peter Hajek, a professor of clinical psychology at the Wolfson Institute Of Preventive Medicine, found 886 people who wanted to quit smoking, and didn't care how.
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The ban worked: adolescents were 17 percent less likely to become cigarette smokers after it was enacted, according to a study published in the American Journal of Preventive Medicine.
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Smokers in the study also used more cigarettes a day when they vaped than when they avoided e-cigarettes altogether, researchers report in the American Journal of Preventive Medicine.
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A study published today in the American Journal of Preventive Medicine suggests that geography is far less important in explaining those deaths than your job and your family life.
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Major investors: Andreessen Horowitz, Founders Fund, Charles River Associates Another health-care unicorn, Clover Health is an insurance start-up aiming to use data science to improve preventive medicine.
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For those who will continue to have insurance, repealing ObamaCare means losing the regulations that ensure no cost annual wellness exams, as ObamaCare was a proponent for preventive medicine.
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Evaluating the risks That aligns with recent guidance from the U.S. Preventive Services Task Force (USPSTF), a panel of expert advisors who weigh evidence for and against preventive medicine.
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"The state has authority within its borders and it takes advice and counsel from the C.D.C.," said Dr. William Schaffner, head of preventive medicine at Vanderbilt University's medical school.
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Both financial incentives and opportunity to donate to charity increased walking, by 2,348 steps and 2,562 steps per day, respectfully, researchers report in the American Journal of Preventive Medicine.
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"We aren't interested in stimulating the testing of simply anxious people," Dr. William Schaffner, an infectious diseases specialist and the head of preventive medicine at Vanderbilt University Medical Center.
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In a study published earlier this year in the journal Preventive Medicine, Dr. Puhl and her colleagues looked at the longitudinal effects of teenagers being teased about their weight.
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"Not everybody is being seen, not everybody is being tested," Dr. William Schaffner, professor of preventive medicine and infectious diseases at Vanderbilt University Medical Center in Nashville, told Reuters.
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In the 93 states with the lowest youth suicide rates, only 29 percent of households owned guns, according to the study published in the American Journal of Preventive Medicine.
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Another study, published in Preventive Medicine in 2015, found that laws that require a government-issued permit to purchase a handgun — a license, essentially — were linked to fewer suicides.
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"It's beginning to look as though Zika can be more readily transmitted sexually than we first anticipated," said Dr. William Schaffner, professor of preventive medicine at Vanderbilt University Medical School.
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Lung cancer remains the most common cancer worldwide, with more than 2 million new cases and 1.8 million deaths a year, researchers note in the American Journal of Preventive Medicine.
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"It's moving faster than maybe anything before it in medical history," says Glenn Palomaki, a researcher of preventive medicine and medical screening at Women and Infant's Hospital of Rhode Island.
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In the early 2000s, some women sued their employers, arguing they were facing sex discrimination if the employer covered preventive medicine for men but didn't cover birth control for women.
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Steve Sussman, Ph.D. is a professor of preventive medicine, psychology, and social work at the University of Southern California and member of the National Prevention Science Coalition to Improve Lives.
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Mercedes Carnethon, Ph.D. is the Mary Harris Thompson professor and vice chair of preventive medicine and chief of the division of Epidemiology at the Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine.
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John Harvey Kellogg, in his day by far the more famous brother and one of America's most beloved physicians, popularized and advanced preventive medicine, health food and the wellness movement.
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On Monday, the head of the Infection Preventive Medicine Department in the city of Daegu tested positive for the virus and subsequently identified himself as a member of the church.
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Yet that process for other exceptions is not yet clear, according to Stefan Kertesz, associate professor of preventive medicine at the University of Alabama, who has corresponded with the agency.
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The federal government's Healthy People 22006 initiative set a goal of having 22007 percent of people over 22013 vaccinated by 22, Zhang's team writes in the American Journal of Preventive Medicine.
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In 2015, the American Journal of Preventive Medicine published the results of a 14-year study, one of the very few long-term looks at binge watching, with some startling results.
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Preventive medicine should be given to any pet who spends time outdoors, including cats, and should be paired with daily tick checks to keep tick bites from becoming a medical emergency.
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The National Academy of Medicine (formally known as the Institute of Medicine), recommended adding the capacity to train at least an additional 400 public health and preventive medicine residents per year.
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"In the 80s and 90s, women did not have access to hormonal [IUDs]," says study author Victoria Cortessis, an assistant professor of clinical preventive medicine at the University of Southern California.
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It is through residency programs that new specialists in public health and preventive medicine are trained, and these programs are in jeopardy from reductions in the federal funding that supports them.
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"Clearly, the reduction in air pollution levels has translated into improvements in respiratory health," said the lead author, Kiros Berhane, a professor of preventive medicine at the University of Southern California.
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This year's predominant strain, H1N1, also known as swine flu, tends to disproportionately affect children and adults under 50, said Schaffner, a professor of preventive medicine at Vanderbilt University Medical Center.
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Then, for perhaps the most innovative of the new studies, which was published last month in Preventive Medicine, they focused on whether exercise could help to prevent someone from developing depression.
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Navas-Acien is a physician-epidemiologist with a specialty in preventive medicine and public health in the Department of Environmental Health Sciences at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health.
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Kristin Kirkpatrick, RDN, the lead dietitian and manager of Wellness Nutrition Services at Cleveland Clinic Wellness & Preventive Medicine, says she typically recommends supplementing with D3 for people who are falling short.
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If we have learned anything in the past century, it's this: medical technologies (including drugs) make the most difference in morbidity and mortality when combined with an emphasis on preventive medicine.
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The new infections consist of 30 patients linked to previous cases and 19 cases including imported ones, said Anupong Sujariyakul, a senior expert in preventive medicine at the Disease Control Department.
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But occasionally, strep can get into the bloodstream and cause a serious infection, according to Dr. William Schaffner, a professor of preventive medicine and infectious disease at Vanderbilt University School of Medicine.
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"There were high hopes that [the trial] might succeed," Professor John Breitner, Canada research chair in prevention of dementia and professor of geriatric psychiatry and preventive medicine at McGill University told CNN.
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Suicide is the second leading cause of death among U.S. youth and young adults, and suicide rates have been rising since 173, Wang's team notes in the American Journal of Preventive Medicine.
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A study in the American Journal of Preventive Medicine found that people who were regular users of social media were twice as likely to feel lonely than those that were light users.
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In 2009, a study in the American Journal of Preventive Medicine estimated that the broader campaign, known as "truth," prevented some 450,000 young people from starting to smoke from 2000 to 2004.
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Dr. Lloyd-Jones, a cardiologist and preventive medicine specialist at the Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine in Chicago, chaired an American Heart Association committee of experts that adopted the recommended changes.
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The simplest test, a nasopharyngeal swab, "is not surgery, but it comes close," said Dr. William Schaffner, a professor of preventive medicine and infectious diseases at Vanderbilt University Medical Center in Nashville.
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The unnamed official leads the Infection Preventive Medicine Department in the city that is home to 681 of the 833 COVID-19 cases in the country, the South China Morning Post reported.
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"We don't know whether the decreasing 2.5 level underlies that declining incidence," said the senior author, Dr. Jiu-Chiuan Chen, an associate professor of preventive medicine at the University of Southern California.
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Dr. Philip Landrigan, a professor of preventive medicine and pediatrics at the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, said new research has shown that lead is toxic even at low levels.
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One study by the American Journal of Preventive Medicine showed that young adults with higher social media use seem to feel more socially isolated than young adults with lower social media use.
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Aedes aegypti is usually found about as far north as Georgia in the United States, Dr. William Schaffner, chairman of preventive medicine at Vanderbilt University Medical Center, told VICE News earlier this month.
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People join it to get connected to others, but a new study published in the American Journal of Preventive Medicine has linked increased social media use to higher levels of perceived social isolation.
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The editor of Preventive Medicine, Eduardo Franco, had contacted Wansink to say that "a reader" had written to the journal with concerns about the paper, linking to both Anaya's and Heathers' blog posts.
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Research published in the American Journal of Preventive Medicine has shown that people who keep a food journal lose twice as much weight as those who don't keep a log of their meals.
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The program is "a model for the nation," said Dr. Philip Landrigan, an expert on lead and a professor of preventive medicine and pediatrics at the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai.
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There are pros and cons to eating foods such as milk, cheese, and yogurt, explains Kristin Kirkpatrick, RDN, the lead dietitian and manager of Wellness Nutrition Services at Cleveland Clinic Wellness & Preventive Medicine.
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"This simple modification has a big impact on the delivery of screening service," said lead study author Dr. Nicholas Wald of the Wolfson Institute of Preventive Medicine and Queen Mary University of London.
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Her mother, a former preventive medicine physician, served from 2001-7 as the executive director of the TriArts Sharon Playhouse in Sharon and continues to work in both theater production and graphic design.
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"It's far from a perfect vaccine, but we can still do a lot of good with a pretty good one," said Dr. William Schaffner, head of preventive medicine at Vanderbilt University's medical school.
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Epidemic's impact may be underestimated Another report earlier this week in the American Journal of Preventive Medicine found that the number of drug overdoses involving opioids between 2008-2014 was likely underestimated by 24%.
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"It's very difficult to go from association to causation," said Dr. Pauline Thomas, professor and director of Preventive Medicine Residency at Rutgers New Jersey Medical School, who was not involved in the new study.
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The American Board of Preventive Medicine is the certifying body for trainees who complete rigorous postgraduate residency training that focuses on both clinical prevention and the population dynamics critical for improving the public's health.
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"I don't think this changes anything, but it shows you how elaborate the number of avenues of possible transmission can be," said Dr. William Schaffner, head of preventive medicine at Vanderbilt University Medical School.
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People between the ages of 20 and 34 are at higher risk of serious diseases when they don't take breaks, according to a study published in the medical journal Environmental Health and Preventive Medicine.
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Dr. William Schaffner, head of preventive medicine at Vanderbilt University Medical School, agreed that oral sex was the most likely route, but also suggested the possibility that the couple was misremembering their sex acts.
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"I would have thought that CBP would have addressed this over the summer and we would now have a system in place," said Schaffner, a professor of preventive medicine at Vanderbilt University Medical Center.
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New research published in the American Journal of Preventive Medicine shows that US adults consume more than 248 billion binge drinks each year, which boils down to about 470 binge drinks per binge drinker annually.
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Health officials have quarantined the living areas of the patient's families and taken samples from others living nearby for further tests, said Nguyen Chi Dung, head of Ho Chi Minh City's department of preventive medicine.
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"This is a giant show of what is quickly doable, but it has no medical-outcome data to support it," said Stefan Kertesz, a professor of preventive medicine at the University of Alabama at Birmingham.
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"The patient that is in front a doctor at any given time may not be the one affected by [antibiotic resistance]," says Daniella Meeker, a professor of preventive medicine at the University of Southern California.
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"The newer science seems to show effects at lower and lower levels of pollution," said Edward Avol, a professor of clinical preventive medicine at the Environmental Health Sciences Center at the University of Southern California.
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Health officials have quarantined the living areas of the patient's families and taken samples from others living nearby for further tests, said Nguyen Chi Dung, head of Ho Chi Minh City's department of preventive medicine.
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These physicians apply knowledge of general preventive medicine and public health issues to promote health care to groups or individuals, and aid in the prevention or reduction of risk of disease, injury, disability, or death.
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Opioids are involved in more overdose deaths than any other drugs and many people who become dependent on prescription opioids move on to injecting heroin, the study in the American Journal of Preventive Medicine said.
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Daniel E. Dawes is the executive director of health policy and external affairs at Morehouse School of Medicine and a lecturer within Morehouse's Satcher Health Leadership Institute and Department of Community Health and Preventive Medicine.
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Such smells can exacerbate existing conditions like asthma or, in your case, migraines, said Dr. Maida P. Galvez, an associate professor of pediatrics and preventive medicine at the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai.
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"Kids in Chicago are experiencing multiple layers of violence and fear of violence in school on a daily basis," said study co-author Dr. Karen Sheehan, a professor of pediatrics and preventive medicine at Feinberg.
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Patients in less populated areas have much higher rates of potentially preventable hospitalizations, indicating a lack of access to the kind of preventive medicine and disease management patients should receive in a primary care setting.
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Dr. William Schaffner, chief of preventive medicine at Vanderbilt University Medical School, said it was imperative that research on possible sexual transmission of Zika be done in Brazil or another Latin American country experiencing an outbreak.
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Although a small proportion of the population works for minimum wage, people living in low-income households have a higher risk of suicide than more affluent people, researchers note in the American Journal of Preventive Medicine.
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We don't need a study to know that, but new research published in the American Journal of Preventive Medicine reveals a deeper layer: For young people, social media might not even be that social at all.
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We spoke to two experts to find out: Dr. Michael Crupain, a board-certified preventive medicine physician and coauthor of What to Eat When, and Abby Langer, a registered dietitian and owner of Abby Langer Nutrition.
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A friend, who recognized symptoms of trauma, referred Redding to see Vincent Felitti, then head of Preventive Medicine at Kaiser Permanente in San Diego and a co-principal investigator of the Adverse Childhood Experiences (ACEs) Study.
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"The simple story is that addiction happens all the time when people get opioids for pain and that simple story is clearly wrong," says Stefan Kertesz, associate professor of preventive medicine at the University of Alabama.
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Neal Barnard, M.D. is president of the Physicians Committee for Responsible Medicine, a nonprofit health organization that promotes preventive medicine, conducts clinical research and encourages higher standards for ethics and effectiveness in research and medical training.
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Mercedes Carnethon, Ph.D. is the Mary Harris Thompson professor of preventive medicine and chief of the division of epidemiology at the Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine and a Public Voices Fellow through The OpEd Project.
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People who die by suicide are more likely to have firearms in their house, and states with lax gun laws have more suicide, according to a 2019 study published in the American Journal of Preventive Medicine.
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"If you don't want to go through all the fandango of getting the test, it may be easier to just get the shot," said Dr. William Schaffner, a preventive medicine specialist at Vanderbilt University Medical School.
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Dr. William Schaffner, a professor of preventive medicine at Vanderbilt University Medical School, noted tecovirimat also could be useful for treating monkeypox, which infects humans and has been increasing rapidly in Africa since smallpox vaccination ended.
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"Eggs, specially the yolk, are a major source of dietary cholesterol," wrote Victor Zhong, lead study author and a postdoctoral fellow in the Department of Preventive Medicine at Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine in Chicago.
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Preventive medicine enabled by technology Turakhia and his colleagues conducted a virtual study with more than 400,000 participants to understand whether a mobile app using data from a heart rate pulse sensor can identify atrial fibrillation.
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"We may indeed get some local transmission but it will be detected fairly quickly and will be ended by interventions," said Dr. William Schaffner, chief of preventive medicine at Vanderbilt University Medical Center in Nashville, Tennessee.
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When the FDA prohibited sales of flavored cigarettes, for example, more people gravitated toward still-legal menthol cigarettes as well as flavored cigars and pipes, according to a paper published in the American Journal of Preventive Medicine.
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The recommendations in the report are "basically long overdue," said Dr. Don Des Jarlais, professor of psychiatry and preventive medicine at the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, who was not involved in the new report.
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"Nicotine is very addictive and is detrimental to the developing brain, whether administered via cigarettes or vaping products," said Jessica Barrington-Trimis, an assistant professor of preventive medicine at the University of Southern California in Los Angeles.
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"We know estrogen has a role in making a woman less sensitive to temperature changes," said JoAnn Manson, chief of the division of preventive medicine at Brigham and Women's Hospital, who was also involved in the study.
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In the three years after that policy was implemented, deaths attributable to cardiovascular disease decreased on average by 14.2 per 100,000 Danes annually, according to a study published in the American Journal of Preventive Medicine in 2015.
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"The efficacy was demonstrated by the reduction in the DNA damage," said John D. Groopman, the Edyth Schoenrich professor of preventive medicine at Johns Hopkins University's Sidney Kimmel Comprehensive Cancer Center, and an author of the study.
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Stephanie Zaza, MD, MPH, FACPM is a retired Captain of the US Public Health Service and medical officer at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), and President-Elect of the American College of Preventive Medicine.
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A new study in the American Journal of Preventive Medicine finds that a majority of non-metropolitan counties (65%) do not have a psychiatrist and almost half of non-metropolitan counties (47%) do not have a psychologist.
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A study published in the American Journal of Preventive Medicine today calculated an increase in drinking over the past decade, escalating from 31 percent to 39.6 percent of adults drinking five or more drinks in two hours.
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"We are watching that very carefully; our environmental preventive medicine officers and medical officers aboard those ships are taking every measure recommended by the CDC to make sure that we limit the potential spread of the virus."
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PTSD has previously been linked to increased risk for chronic health problems like heart disease, diabetes and immune disorders as well as a greater risk of premature death, researchers note in the American Journal of Preventive Medicine.
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Doctors used colistin frequently in the 1970s and 1980s, but it caused very serious side effects and could be toxic to the liver, said epidemiologist Dr. William Schaffner, chair of preventive medicine at Vanderbilt University Medical Center.
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Some previous studies have linked nicotine, flavorings and other chemicals in e-liquids to an elevated heart rate, high blood pressure and an increased risk of stroke, the researchers note in the American Journal of Preventive Medicine.
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The countless millions who have escaped a premature cardiovascular death can thank in part a half-century of public health measures and other preventive medicine initiatives that are now threatened by proposed cuts in the nation's budget.
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After a decades-long fight for solutions, H.I.V. is manageable today thanks to preventive medicine like PrEP; medications that reduce the viral loads of H.I.V.-positive people; and a better understanding of how to manage the virus.
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For example, the antibiotics used in a transplant unit often differ from those used in neonatal intensive care, so different resistant bacteria may circulate, said Dr. William Schaffner, head of preventive medicine at Vanderbilt University Medical Center.
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" Dr. Mohammed K. Ali, a preventive medicine specialist at Emory University who wrote a commentary about the study, said, "Many people are on high-deductible plans that don't cover a lot of things that could help them.
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According to another 2013 study published in the American Journal of Preventive Medicine, higher-risk drinkers would pay nearly 83 percent of an effective tax increase if the alcohol tax was increased by 25 cents per drink.
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ROBERT G. NEWMAN New York The writer, an adjunct professor of preventive medicine at the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, was assistant commissioner for addiction programs at the New York City Department of Health, 1970-75.
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Apparently, the mixture helps with digestion; the acid in lemon juice "works with the body to nourish and to enhance proper function," Roxanne Sukol, MD, a preventive medicine specialist at the Cleveland Clinic's Wellness Institute, told Yahoo Health.
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Students who identify as transgender, gender nonconforming, genderqueer and nonbinary need gender-affirming services on campus, as well as screening for mental health concerns, the authors of a new study conclude in the American Journal of Preventive Medicine.
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In the American Journal of Preventive Medicine, we outline how the "Healthy Staples Program" would provide SNAP recipients abundant food and complete nutrition while reducing the average monthly benefit used per person from $126.39 to $78.66 each month.
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A 2014 American Journal of Preventive Medicine study found that 74 percent of adults have no healthcare proxy, living will or advance directives; only 42 percent have a will, according to a survey earlier this year from Caring.com.
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The guidelines "highlight many, many important similarities much more than it highlights some small differences," said Dr. Don Lloyd-Jones, a spokesperson for the AHA and a professor of preventive medicine at Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine.
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A 1996 study by the Army Center for Health Promotion and Preventive Medicine noted that soldiers on bases were at risk for exposure to 'unhealthy levels of lead' from firing ranges, battery repair, lead paint and building demolition.
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One of the best ideas I have come across was offered by Dr. David L. Katz, the founding director of Yale University's C.D.C.-funded Yale-Griffin Prevention Research Center and an expert in public health and preventive medicine.
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William Schaffner, a professor of preventive medicine and infectious diseases at the Vanderbilt University School of Medicine, said such a "very loose lockdown" created the risk that the virus could be circulating among the guests or the staff.
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"You'll find patients backed up in the emergency room; you will find patients on gurneys because there aren't enough beds," says William Schaffner, a professor of preventive medicine and infectious diseases at the Vanderbilt University School of Medicine.
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"We were interested in whether hot flushes were indicative of heightened vulnerability - and we found this to be the case," said Davis, a researcher with the School of Public Health and Preventive Medicine at Monash University in Melbourne.
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The risk score is meant "to start a conversation, not to write a prescription," according to Dr. Don Lloyd-Jones, professor of preventive medicine at Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine and a spokesman for the heart association.
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While the veterans were largely satisfied with their work and social lives, most said they had chronic physical problems, and a third said they had chronic mental health problems, researchers report in the American Journal of Preventive Medicine.
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A 1996 study by the Army Center for Health Promotion and Preventive Medicine noted that soldiers on bases were at risk for exposure to "unhealthy levels of lead" from firing ranges, battery repair, lead paint and building demolition.
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The underground "supervised injection facility" (SIF) has been in operation since 2014, and is open for four to six hours a day, five days a week, according to a new study published in the American Journal of Preventive Medicine.
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The spread of conflicting information and even misinformation might be playing a role in America's obesity epidemic, said Dr. Roxanne Sukol, preventive medicine specialist at the Wellness Institute at Cleveland Clinic, who was not involved in the new survey.
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A 2628 study in the American Journal of Preventive Medicine found that a majority of non-metropolitan counties (28503 percent) do not have a psychiatrist and almost half of non-metropolitan counties (22019 percent) do not have a psychologist.
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According to Stephen G. Post, professor of preventive medicine and the director and founder of the Center for Medical Humanities, Compassionate Care and Bioethics at Stony Brook University, acting generously and giving back could help lower your stress levels.
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Storing weapons loaded and unlocked was reported by 34 percent of male veterans who own firearms and by 13 percent of female vets who were gun owners, according to the study published in the American Journal of Preventive Medicine.
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"Many behaviors we have as adults began when we were adolescents - we call this "tracking" of health behaviors," said Mercedes Carnethon, vice chair of the department of preventive medicine at the Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine in Chicago.
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"Because they work so hard and breathe so much, athletes actually turn out to be a sensitive subgroup to pollutants," says Ed Avol, a professor of clinical preventive medicine and air pollution expert at the University of Southern California.
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That represents almost 2000 million women and 013 million men who have reported assault, unwanted sexual contact or verbal harassment by a boss, supervisor, coworker, customer or client, the study authors report in the American Journal of Preventive Medicine.
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Mandatory laws that require every person convicted of a DUI to use an interlock were associated with a 7% decrease in the number of fatal drunken driving crashes, according to a study published Thursday in the American Journal of Preventive Medicine.
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"Having a nice support system that knows they'll be going through this and makes sure people don't enable them to go back to nicotine use [is important]," said Steven Sussman, a University of Southern California preventive medicine professor focused on tobacco.
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What's more, emails obtained by BuzzFeed News via public records requests suggest that another paper by this research team, a study about carrots published in Preventive Medicine in 2012, looked at kids in preschools while claiming to be about older children.
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"We knew that erectile dysfunction was considered an early indicator of vascular disease that might occur before heart disease was diagnosed by a doctor," said lead study author Abbi Lane-Cordova, a preventive medicine researcher at Northwestern University in Chicago.
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The case, a four-month old baby whose mother was diagnosed with Zika when she was pregnant, was found in the central province of Dak Lak, the General Department of Preventive Medicine said in a statement posted on its official website.
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William Schaffner, M.D., is the medical director of the National Foundation for Infectious Diseases and professor of preventive medicine at Vanderbilt University's School of Medicine The views expressed by authors are their own and not the views of The Hill.
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"This is a major asset and we want to make it accessible to researchers and developers in order to achieve two things: one is preventive medicine, and the second is personal medicine tailored to each individual," Netanyahu told his cabinet.
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It might even be generational: A recent study in the American Journal of Preventive Medicine found that of the 3.5 million people infected with HCV, 80 percent of them are so-called "Baby Boomers" born between the years 1945 and 1965.
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Prior to Dr. Fitzgerald, CDC directors have all been highly qualified, either trained and certified in Preventive Medicine and Public Health or having had significant career-long experience serving in a variety of public health positions prior to their appointments.
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Certain factors that make people more likely to have physically demanding jobs may also make them more apt to die young, said Silvia Stringhini, a researcher at the Institute of Social and Preventive Medicine and Lausanne University Hospital in Switzerland.
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" A study published last month that was a joint effort between Yale and the Department of Preventive Medicine of the University of Southern California observed that "videogames offer the opportunity to engage and educate youth through skill-building and role-playing.
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Dr. William Schaffner, chair of preventive medicine at Vanderbilt University Medical Center, who was not involved in the study, said he remembers learning that diarrheal disease was among the top causes of childhood mortality as a medical student 40 years ago.
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"Everyone interpreted that it was OK to eat red meat, but I don't think that is what the science supports," said senior study author Norrina Allen, associate professor of preventive medicine at Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine, in a statement.
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Researchers found e-cigarette users, tracked for three years, had 6900 times the risk of developing a respiratory disease than people who did not use tobacco, based on a study published in the American Journal of Preventive Medicine on Monday.
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"The one coffee we know not suitable to be drinking is the boiled coffee," said Marilyn C. Cornelis, an assistant professor in preventive medicine at the Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine and co-author of the JAMA Internal Medicine study.
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The study published in the American Journal of Preventive Medicine found that while e-cigarettes might be safer than smoking cigarettes, people who vaped were about 30% percent more likely to have developed a chronic lung disease like asthma or emphysema.
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"There's some sense that you can get some protection against some future cancers," said William Schaffner, professor of preventive medicine and infectious diseases at Vanderbilt University School of Medicine, who is the ACIP liaison for the National Foundation for Infectious Diseases.
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The study, published Monday in the American Journal of Preventive Medicine, looked at participants in the Osteoarthritis Initiative, a large, multisite study on knee osteoarthritis, who were at increased risk of disability because of lower-extremity symptoms, from 2008 to 2014.
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According to a 2015 report in the American Journal of Preventive Medicine, nicotine exposure has also been linked to "altered development of cerebral cortex and hippocampus," two brain regions connected to memory, cognition, language, as well as other roles in consciousness.
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"We may be able to better predict who is at risk, treat their misalignment, and then monitor their progress over the treatment," Rosemary Braun, an assistant professor in biotstatistics and preventive medicine at Northwestern, and an author on the study, says.
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But there's just one problem: Unless you're half in the bag on a regular basis, those benefits probably aren't going to stick, says Donald Hensrud, associate professor of nutrition and preventive medicine and director of the Mayo Clinic Healthy Living Program.
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"While African Americans are more likely to experience many cardiovascular diseases, in particular strokes and heart failure, they are also more likely to die from cardiovascular diseases," Dr. Mercedes R. Carnethon from Northwestern University Preventive Medicine in Chicago told Reuters Health by email.
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A 2009 review of the evidence published in the American Journal of Preventive Medicine also found that simply limiting the number of alcohol outlets in an area can similarly limit problematic drinking and its dangers, including medical harms, injuries, crime, and violence.
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Dr. William Schaffner, a professor of preventive medicine at Vanderbilt University Medical School tells PEOPLE that he is "saddened" by De Niro's comments on the Today show, noting that De Niro's comments are reminiscent of questions raised about vaccines 15 years ago.
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The president's budget will do irreparable harm to the preventive medicine training pipeline, send a signal to our young physicians in training that prevention should be deemphasized and increase our future health care costs adding risk to our nation's health and economy.
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The study doesn't prove social media causes isolation, and it's possible that people who already felt less connected to other people in real life spent more time on services like Facebook or Twitter, researchers note in the American Journal of Preventive Medicine.
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Even though most people who die from the flu are very young, elderly, or have compromised immune systems, the virus can kill even healthy people, said epidemiologist Dr. William Schaffner, chair of preventive medicine at Vanderbilt University Medical Center in Nashville, Tennessee.
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Those results, while unstartling, do provide the first, scientifically compelling rationale for owning an activity monitor, says Dr. Timothy Church, a professor of preventive medicine at Pennington Biomedical Research Center in Baton Rouge, La., who wrote a commentary to accompany the new study.
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The Monday effect on health In a study titled "What's the healthiest day?" published in the American Journal of Preventive Medicine, Cohen and her colleagues set out to determine whether there were any "circaseptan" or weekly patterns in health-promoting behaviors among individuals.
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Dr. William Schaffner, a professor of preventive medicine at Vanderbilt, said it would have been reasonable to ask about a flu test, given that it was flu season and an agent had observed that the boy had possible symptoms of the flu.
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William Schaffner, professor of preventive medicine and infectious diseases at the Vanderbilt University School of Medicine, told Al Jazeera that problems with the U.S. testing system meant the country lagged "behind much of the rest of the world" when it came to testing.
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A 2013 study published in the American Journal of Preventive Medicine, for example, estimated that one drink per day of the cheapest brand of spirits cost the typical person 4.46 percent of his disposable income in 1950, but just 0.29 percent in 2011.
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"The benefit of capturing these behaviors over time is that we can study how the accumulation of unhealthy risk factors contributes to the development of diabetes," said the senior author, Mercedes R. Carnethon, an associate professor of preventive medicine at Northwestern University.
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"The body of regulatory pressures that govern prescribing for pain in long-term recipients is not some neat restrictive rule that can be lifted or waived," said Stefan Kertesz, professor of preventive medicine at the University of Alabama at Birmingham School of Medicine.
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And a study of 2011 data, published in the American Journal of Preventive Medicine, found religiosity is tied to higher odds of suicidal ideation (the desire to take one's own life or thinking about suicide) for gay, lesbian and questioning college students.
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According to research published in the American Journal of Preventive Medicine, the number of injuries associated with exertional heat illness in the United States – most of which involved young people playing sports – increased by more than 130 percent between 1997 and 2006.
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Linda V. Van Horn, professor of preventive medicine and a registered dietitian at Northwestern University, stated that commercial peanut butter formulations have been improved because the food industry is aware of the trans fat issues and has responded by reformulating those products.
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"Avocados are a fruit and one of the few fruits that are high in fat and low in sugar," said Dr. Donald Hensrud, medical director of the Mayo Clinic Healthy Living Program in Rochester, Minnesota, and a specialist in nutrition and preventive medicine.
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The viruses are not usually life-threatening but, once in the body, typically remain there for life, according to Dr. William Schaffner, a professor of preventive medicine and infectious diseases at Vanderbilt University Medical Center, who was not involved in the study.
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"Once pollutants get into your body, cross the air-blood barrier in your lungs and get into your bloodstream, they potentially can go anywhere your blood goes," said Ed Avol, a University of Southern California professor of clinical preventive medicine and environmental health.
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"We are worried about why they have decided to remove people who were selected due to their experience and competencies at the highest level," Siliquini, who leads the school of hygiene and preventive medicine at the University of Turin, told the Guardian.
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Dr. William Schaffner, the chief of preventive medicine at Vanderbilt University Medical School, even suggested that the Brazilian Army, which is set to go door to door this week looking for mosquito breeding spots and handing out pamphlets, ought to hand out condoms, too.
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In an analysis of nearly 24,22020 dental visits by adults, researchers found that opioid prescriptions were written for more than the three-day maximum recommended by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, according to the report in the American Journal of Preventive Medicine.
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The new study comes at a time when new dietary guidelines are being drawn up which will include information on prenatal nutrition, said Linda Van Horn, a professor of epidemiology and chief of nutrition in preventive medicine at Northwestern University's Feinberg School of Medicine.
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This is despite the fact that the National Academy of Medicine (formerly known as the Institute of Medicine), a highly-respected government-chartered think tank, has recommended adding the capacity to train at least an additional 85033 public health and preventive medicine residents per year.
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The clandestine operation – the first disclosed in the U.S. – probably saved the lives of two visitors in two years when staffers used the medication naloxone to reverse their overdoses, according to an American Journal of Preventive Medicine report by researchers who evaluated the facility.
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The findings, published on Monday in the American Journal of Preventive Medicine, document the beverage industry's deep financial ties to the health community over the past five years, as part of a strategy to silence health critics and gain unlikely allies against soda regulations.
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Over the same five-year period, the two beverage giants lobbied against at least 20163 soda taxes and other measures intended to curb consumption of sugary drinks and stem the rising tide of obesity, according to a recent study in American Journal of Preventive Medicine.
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One study, of more than 257,20143 people, by Dr. Britt Wang Jensen and colleagues at the Institute of Preventive Medicine, in Bispebjerg, Denmark, and Frederiksberg Hospital in Copenhagen, grouped children according to standard deviations from a mean B.M.I., adjusted for a child's age and sex.
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Sick people who stay indoors tend to have low vitamin D levels; their poor health is likely the cause of their low vitamin D levels, not the other way around, said JoAnn Manson, chief of preventive medicine at Brigham and Women's Hospital in Boston.
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In a paper published this year in the journal Preventive Medicine, Cohen, the epidemiologist, and co-authors surveyed CicLAvia participants in 2014 to track their numbers, how far they'd traveled to participate, and whether the CicLAvia made a difference in their physical activity patterns.
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Although New York City has strict testing requirements, and lead-poisoning cases have been dropping for decades, many lead-poisoned children still go undetected, said Dr. Philip Landrigan, a professor of preventive medicine and pediatrics at the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai.
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And a study published in the American Journal of Preventive Medicine in May found that schools that used a violence prevention program called Green Dot had more than a 50 percent reduction in the self-reported frequency of sexual violence by high school students.
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"We found that coffee drinkers had a reduced risk of death from heart disease, from cancer, from stroke, respiratory disease, diabetes and kidney disease," said Veronica Setiawan, associate professor of preventive medicine at the University of Southern California and a co-author of the research.
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But the study, published in the American Journal of Preventive Medicine, found that screening rates were low overall and that racial and ethnic minorities, and people with lower income and education, were less likely to report receiving oral cancer screening during a clinic visit.
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The chief contributors, they reported this week in the American Journal of Preventive Medicine, are laws and fiscal restrictions that result in closures of Planned Parenthood clinics and laws restricting abortions to very early in pregnancies, often before many women know they are pregnant.
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"If this finding is confirmed and replicated, it may point to a very promising approach to reducing coronary risk among African-Americans," lead author JoAnn Manson, MD, DrPH, chief of the division of preventive medicine at Brigham and Women's Hospital in Boston, said in a statement.
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Now, emails obtained by BuzzFeed News through public information requests reveal for the first time that Wansink and his Cornell colleague David Just are also in the process of correcting yet another study, "Attractive names sustain increased vegetable intake in schools," published in Preventive Medicine in 2012.
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"I've seen a published list that heavily emphasizes publicly reported events, which includes between 20 and 30 suicides," says Stefan Kertesz, associate professor of preventive medicine at the University of Alabama, who is trying to raise alarm over the problem with the CDC and other health authorities.
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"Secondhand smoke exposure is an important public health issue ... and has been recognized as one of the top occupational hazards that contributes substantially to the prevalence of occupational cancer among nonsmokers," Dr. Sara Luckhaupt, a study author and preventive medicine physician in Cincinnati, said in an email.
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"Unless there is some sort of concerted national effort to do something about this problem, it's going to persist for years to come," said Philip J. Landrigan, a leading expert on lead and professor of preventive medicine and pediatrics at the Mount Sinai School of Medicine.
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In both breakfast and lunch/dinner combination meals, beverages were the largest driver of increases in calories and sugar, whereas entrees and sides were the largest drivers of increases in saturated fat and sodium, she and her colleagues report in the American Journal of Preventive Medicine.
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Another paper, published in the American Journal of Preventive Medicine in 2016, found that Coca-Cola and PepsiCo sponsored at least 96 national health organizations at the same time the companies were lobbying against public health bills intended to reduce how many sugary sodas people drink.
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The study, published in the American Journal of Preventive Medicine on Monday, is among the first bodies of research to examine the link between e-cigarette use and respiratory disease in the long-term, by analyzing e-cigarette use and respiratory disease during a three-year period.
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Children who saw ads for specific sugary cereals in the past week, as well as at any time during the study period, were significantly more likely to eat those cereals than kids who didn't see the ads at all, researchers report in the American Journal of Preventive Medicine.
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Though the study wasn't designed to explain this result, it could be that legalizing recreational marijuana initially leads to an increase in newer, more inexperienced users, says study co-author Tyler Lane, a post-doc in the School of Public Health and Preventive Medicine at Monash University in Australia.
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The Coca-Cola Co. and PepsiCo recently sponsored at least 96 national health organizations at the same time the companies were lobbying against public health bills intended to reduce how many sugary sodas people drink, according to the paper published in the American Journal of Preventive Medicine on Monday.
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"There's been a fair amount of talk already that the CDC travel guidelines ought to be much firmer, much more prescriptive," said Dr. William Schaffner, chairman of the department of preventive medicine at Vanderbilt University Medical School, who also serves on the CDC's Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices.
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But to shift our healthcare paradigm to one that rewards prevention and actually improves the health of the populace, we need insurance that covers preventive services; adequate financing for public health at the federal, state, and local level; and increased federal support for preventive medicine residency training programs.
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Money spent on extreme cases may mean less funding available for preventive medicine like flu shots, routine screenings such as mammograms, or research into cures for diseases like cancer and A.L.S. Some scholars have argued in favor of rationing health care to make certain limited resources are spent wisely.
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A 2017 study published in the American Journal of Preventive Medicine found that those who used social media for more than two hours daily were twice as likely to report feeling high levels of social isolation, compared with people who spent less than 30 minutes per day using social media.
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Those individuals who developed diabetes were more than twice as likely to develop pancreatic cancer compared with those who did not develop diabetes, according to Wendy Setiawan, associate professor of preventive medicine at the Keck School of Medicine of the University of Southern California and a lead author of the study.
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But for healthy adults who are worried about the coronavirus, eating a nutritious diet and getting proper sleep and exercise are the best ways to strengthen your immune system, said Linda Van Horn, chief of nutrition in the department of preventive medicine at the Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine.
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But for healthy adults who are worried about the coronavirus, eating a nutritious diet and getting proper sleep and exercise are the best ways to strengthen your immune system, said Linda Van Horn, chief of nutrition in the department of preventive medicine at the Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine.
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Her mother, a preventive medicine specialist, is the vice chair of the executive health department at the Cleveland Clinic, and a founding member of the physician advisory board at the Gathering Place, which is based in Beachwood, Ohio, and provides programs and services to people with cancer and their families.
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As far as health is concerned, red and processed meat consumption is one of many overall diet and lifestyle factors that play a role in cardiovascular health, said Norrina Allen, a senior author on the latest study and associate professor of preventive medicine at the Northwestern Feinberg School of Medicine.
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Half of that reduction is a result of preventive medicine, including screening people for risk factors like high cholesterol or high blood pressure and getting them on medications like ACE inhibitors and beta blockers — medications that are off-patent and inexpensive, in some cases costing less than $5 a month.
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"Ultraprocessed foods already make up more than half of the total dietary energy consumed in high-income countries such as USA, Canada and the UK," Maira Bes-Rastrollo, senior author of one study and a professor of preventive medicine and public health at the Universidad de Navarra, told CNN in an email.
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"The idea that we could give someone something to bolster or strengthen the defenses of a travelers' microbiome to prevent bad bacteria from colonizing and causing illness is an attractive one," says Mark Riddle, MD, MPH, chair and professor of the department of preventive medicine and biostatistics at the Uniformed Services University.
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"The dispute is primarily disciplinary—although it is taking on metaphysical proportions given the inability or unwillingness of Doleac and colleagues to acknowledge the validity of other methodologies or to reflect constructively on the weakness of their own methods," says Ricky Bluthenthal, professor of preventive medicine at the University of Southern California.
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To this end, according to a study conducted by the American Journal of Preventive Medicine, U.S. troops who were deployed to Iraq and Afghanistan have been reported to smoke at twice the rate of civilians, and veterans of the U.S. military are more likely to be lifelong smokers than their civilian counterparts.
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In one 2015 study, published in Preventive Medicine, US moms who exclusively breastfed for at least three months lost more weight—just over 3 pounds—and were more likely to return to their pre-pregnancy weight a year after giving birth compared to moms who didn&apost breastfeed exclusively or at all.
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Per a USC press release:"Sales of 'pod-mod' style e-cigarette products, such as JUUL, with high nicotine concentrations in fruity and minty flavors, are climbing," said Adam Leventhal, professor of preventive medicine and psychology and director of the USC Institute for Addiction Science at the Keck School of Medicine of USC.
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One economist may have found a way to help fix that issue — and his study, published Monday in the American Journal of Preventive Medicine, suggests that deadly overdoses involving opioids could be even more common: In 2014, the study suggests, opioid-involved fatal overdose rates may have been 24 percent higher than officials previously believed.
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Few have symptoms Compared with an infection resulting from D. latum, "we think this Japanese version would not be any different, although very little is actually known about this variant of tapeworms," said Dr. William Schaffner, a professor of preventive medicine at Vanderbilt University School of Medicine who was not involved in the new study.
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One economist may have found a way to help fix that issue — and his study, published Monday in the American Journal of Preventive Medicine, suggests that deadly overdoses involving opioids could be even more common: In 2000, the study suggests, opioid-involved fatal overdose rates may have been 224 percent higher than officials previously believed.
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"I am deeply appreciative that both the FDA and the CDC saw fit to speak now because it sets the table for all of us to have a serious conversation" about both the harms and the benefits of the guideline, says Stefan Kertesz, a professor of preventive medicine at the University of Alabama at Birmingham.
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"Chemicals used in everyday products need to be rigorously evaluated for their full potential of human health impacts before they are made widely available in the marketplace," Dr. Maida P. Galvez, an associate professor in the Department of Preventive Medicine and Pediatrics at the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, told CNN previously.
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"In terms of impact, just 1 mm Hg of reduction of the systolic blood pressure at the population level could result in meaningful reductions in heart attacks, strokes, and heart failure," Kiarri Kershaw, lead author of the study and an assistant professor of preventive medicine at Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine, said in a statement.
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In a 2017 study cited by the report, Jon-Patrick Allem, an assistant professor of research preventive medicine at the University of Southern California, analyzed more than 6 million tweets related to e-cigarettes with computer code posted online to allow other people to check the approach, relying on about 1,13 characteristics of bot accounts to ferret them out.
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Action item: More research The value of the new study is really to strengthen the biological possibility that cell phone radiation could cause cancer, said Jonathan M. Samet, chairman of preventive medicine at the University of Southern California, who led the World Health Organization panel in 2011 that determined cell phone use is a possible cancer risk.
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"I think it's a good idea, but I'm a believer in evidence-based policy, so we need a fair bit more evidence before we would have a good justification for moving to a law" requiring food makers to include this label on products, said James F. Sallis, professor of family and preventive medicine at University of California-San Diego.
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For people taking vitamin D who developed cancer, the death rate from cancer was 25 percent lower, possibly because the vitamin "may affect the biology of the tumor so it's less likely to spread and become metastatic," said lead author Dr. JoAnn Manson, chief of the division of preventive medicine at Brigham and Women's Hospital in Boston.
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As the New York Times recently reported, the American Journal of Preventive Medicine conducted a study that shows that Coke and Pepsi give millions to public health and then lobbies against it—a revelation that demonstrates how corporate social responsibility programs can be manipulated into pure public relations vehicles for the benefit of a corporation's bottom line.
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"We compared rates of tobacco product use among youth who lived in areas that had strong tobacco vendor licensing requirements ... with rates in areas with weak retail licensing regulation," Robert Urman, one of the authors of the study and a postdoctoral fellow in the Department of Preventive Medicine at the University of Southern California, wrote in an email.
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The researchers had expected that aspirin would help prevent heart attacks and strokes in the study participants, so the results came as a surprise — "the ugly facts which slay a beautiful theory," the leader of the study, Dr. John McNeil, of the department of epidemiology and preventive medicine at Monash University in Melbourne, Australia, said in a telephone interview.
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The lead author, Dr. JoAnn E. Manson, chief of the division of preventive medicine at Brigham and Women's Hospital in Boston, said that "mortality rates are the ultimate bottom line in looking at the net effect of a medication on serious health conditions," especially with interventions like hormone therapy, which have a complex pattern of risks and benefits.
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"People should be aware that long work hours might affect their heart health, and if they're working long hours, they should ask their doctors about checking their blood pressure over time with a wearable monitor," the study's lead author, Xavier Trudel, an assistant professor in social and preventive medicine at Laval University in Quebec, said in a statement.
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A 2013 study, published in the American Journal of Preventive Medicine, calculated how much alcohol costs relative to people's income: One drink per day of the cheapest brand of spirits required 0.29% of U.S. mean per capita disposable income in 2011 as compared to 1.02% in 1980, 703% in 1970, 3.61% in 1960, and 4.46% in 1950.
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"What we found was a very coherent pattern of less cervical cancer among people who've used the IUD based on thousands of women — and the pattern wasn't subtle at all, it was stunning," Dr. Victoria Cortessis, the study's lead author and associate professor of clinical preventive medicine at the Keck School of Medicine at the University of Southern California, told BuzzFeed Health.
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Seeking to identify influential scientists it could work with, the group found a partner in Chen Chunming, a leading nutritionist who was the founding president of the Chinese Academy of Preventive Medicine, the forerunner of China's C.D.C. In 1993, Ms. Chen became the head of ILSA-China and she remained a senior adviser to the organization until her death last year.
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"When you eat a diet that is rich in processed and refined foods, it collectively contributes to increased risk of disease and denies you the benefits of the fiber, vitamins, minerals and plant-based proteins that contribute to health," said Dr. Van Horn, division chief of nutrition in the department of preventive medicine at the Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine.
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Another point of concern from the survey is that a quarter of the people who are at higher risk for flu-related complications — including as those with diabetes, heart or lung conditions, or are 65 years and older — indicated they were not planning to get vaccinated, says Schaffner, who also is professor of preventive medicine at Vanderbilt University Medical Center.
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They also were aware that a number of school districts in Massachusetts had plans to allow BOKS at their elementary and middle schools during the 2015 or 2016 school years and, for the new study, which was published this week in the American Journal of Preventive Medicine, asked if they could piggyback their research onto the start of those programs.
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"For the first time, we pulled out and collected in one place all of the information on deaths caused by all forms of pollution combined -- in other words, air pollution, water pollution, chemical pollution, soil pollution, occupational pollution in the workplace -- and put it all together," said Landrigan who is also a professor of preventive medicine and pediatrics at Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai.
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With oncologists reticent to offer advice on lifestyle changes, the onus may fall upon patients to bring the topic up and to find ways on their own to address changes, said study coauthor Bonnie Spring, a professor of preventive medicine, psychiatry, psychology and public health and director of the Institute for Public Health and Medicine at Northwestern University's Feinberg School of Medicine in Chicago.
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For starters, eating nothing but animal protein that's high in saturated fat while ignoring vegetables and carbohydrates is not wise, Linda Van Horn, chief of nutrition in the department of preventive medicine at Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine, tells CNBC Make It. Research suggests that eating two servings of red or processed meat a week is associated with an increased risk of cardiovascular disease and death.
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William Schaffner prof of preventive medicine, VANDERBILT UNIVERSITY we have a spectrum, sars was very severe and very transmissible, mers, Middle East Respiratory Syndrome virus was also very serious, but not very transmissible, what we have learned so far by this virus, many infected, many also get better and go home, surely, with 6 death so far, but not as bad as the sars virus The Chinese scientists were wonderful, they very rapidly identify this virus and documented it was new, they sequenced in genome and made that available to the world community, there are now scientists around the world working on a rapid test, and work on the vaccine has already begun.
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