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...hydrocephaly, a condition in which excess spinal fluid builds up in the brain. While the risk of birth defects in obese women has been known, "I wouldn't have predicted the range of birth defects found to be increased when we looked at maternal obesity," says Judith Rankin, an epidemiologist and one of the authors of the study. (See the best and worst moms of all time...
...very reassuring," says Dr. Douglas Dockery, one of the study's three authors and an environmental epidemiologist at Harvard's School of Public Health. "We can see some benefits from the regulations of air pollution that have been put in place in the past 20 to 30 years." (See pictures of the world's most polluted places...
...researchers separate the role that improved air quality plays from other factors? Very carefully. "The problem is," says Dr. C. Arden Pope III, the study's lead author and an epidemiologist at Brigham Young University, "if you consider every factor that extends life expectancy and add them up, you almost always end up with more than a 100% improvement." This is because many of the factors overlap, so scientists must take care not to count an extra week, say, as an extra two or three weeks...
...yogurts. Second, there is no evidence that probiotic products can do anything about weight loss; the latest scientific studies have shown only that probiotics can relieve antibiotic-related diarrhea, as well as alleviate IBS and aide regularity. "It is interesting to look at microbial flora," says Lynne McFarland, an epidemiologist at the Puget Sound Veterans Administration Medical Center, who was not affiliated with the study. "But I would not run out and eat a lot of yogurt because of this...
...workers, government officials and church leaders, who say the practice would constitute a human rights violation and do little to address Papua's high infection rate. "Two wrongs do not make a right, and the plan to implant HIV people with microchips is definitely wrong," says Elisabeth Pisani, an epidemiologist and former AIDS researcher in Indonesia. "This sort of nonsense is hardly worth commenting on from a public health point of view, but I think it might give pause for thought to those who are pushing rapid decentralization and local democracy as a development model [in Indonesia...