Word: epidemiologist
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...ghetto life have also been associated with higher health risks. Studies of poor black neighborhoods in Detroit and Boston have correlated hypertension, which is twice as common among American blacks as among whites, with overcrowded housing and high levels of unemployment and crime. Research conducted in Massachusetts by Epidemiologist David Jenkins, now on the faculty of the University of Texas Medical Branch in Galveston, showed that the two areas with the highest mortality rates in the state were the Boston black ghetto of Roxbury and the working-class white enclave of South Boston, which had been locked in a bitter...
...town meeting last Tuesday with state and federal politicians and health officials, Dr. Henry Falk, an epidemiologist with the federal Centers for Disease Control, advised residents who had left Times Beach after the flooding to stay away. He told those who had returned to avoid exposure to soil and debris until new tests were completed. Falk said that scientific studies with animals show that dioxin, an acutely toxic substance that is produced as an unwanted byproduct in the manufacture of herbicides and other chemicals, can have extremely adverse effects on the skin, liver and immune system. Many of the residents...
...that had been getting DES injections; in Italy it was linked to contaminated beef. But the cause is not always dietary, and symptoms often disappear within a year, whether or not diet is altered. "The list of conditions that can cause this is fairly lengthy," says CDC Epidemiologist José Cordero. In Poland, it was discovered in 1967 that parents working in birth-control pill factories were inadvertently exposing their children to estrogen powder clinging to their clothes. Elsewhere, insecticides, including DDT, have been associated with the disorder. So far, however, the CDC has failed to uncover any link between...
...addition, the list reportedly includes a distinguished professor emeritus at the Medical School. Speculation on this recipient's identity has centered on Maxwell Finland 22, a retired epidemiologist...
DIED. Dennis Stone, 52, prominent epidemiologist who co-wrote the definitive study of the links between fetal deformities and drugs used by pregnant women; of a brain tumor; in Lexington, Mass. Slone's 1977 Birth Defects and Drugs in Pregnancy concluded that the most commonly used painkillers, tranquilizers and sleeping pills involve little risk to fetuses. Last year, however, his team reported that women who used oral contraceptives for a long time doubled or tripled their chances of having a heart attack...