Mapping technologies a growing health tool: geographic information systems put public health on the map.
CARL Kinkade travels the globe responding to public health emergencies, though his formidable response skills aren't the typical fodder for nightly newscasts and glossy magazine covers. Kinkade won't be administering vaccines, patching wounds or delivering food--he'll be behind the scenes, creating the data analyses responders use to...

Calendar.
Upcoming NEHA conferences June 21-24, 2009: Atlanta, Georgia. June 5-9, 2010: Albuquerque, New Mexico NEHA Affiliate and Regional Listings California April 13-17, 2009: "58th Annual Educational Symposium," sponsored by CEHA, Hyatt Regency, Monterey, CA. For information, contact CEHA Support...

Hyping Health Risks: Environmental Hazards in Daily Life and the Science of Epidemiology.
Hyping Health Risks: Environmental Hazards in Daily Life and the Science of Epidemiology Geoffrey C. Kabat [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] Health scares come and go, but they often have a tenuous scientific basis. Kabat, a cancer epidemiologist, systematically rips through cancer alerts that overrode scientific...

More younger men diagnosed with stage IV prostate cancer.
CHICAGO -- Advanced prostate cancer is being diagnosed increasingly in younger men aged 60 years or less in the United States, despite the widespread availability of prostate-specific antigen testing, according to epidemiologic evidence spanning 15 years from the Surveillance, Epidemiology, and End Results database. "That's the bad...

Infection control experts renamed.
Call them infection preventionists. In what it said was an effort to better articulate the expanding roles of its members, the Association for Professionals in Infection Control and Epidemiology has offered a new moniker for its members. The term joins the list of professional titles such as hospitalists, intensivists,...

Street trees may help prevent childhood asthma.
Lovasi GS, Quinn JW, Neckerman KM, Perzanowski MS, Rundle A. Children living in areas with more street trees have lower prevalence of asthma. Journal of Epidemiology and Community Health, 2008; 62(7): 647-9. Children who live in areas where there are more street trees have a lower prevalence...

Infection control experts renamed.
Call them infection preventionists. In what it said was an effort to better articulate the expanding roles of its members, the Association for Professionals in Infection Control and Epidemiology has offered a new moniker for its members. The term joins the list of professional titles such as hospitalists, intensivists,...

Indications.
Government Gone Wild If you're like us, and we know you are, you've been spending a lot of your waking hours wondering how the recent reorganization at the Food and Drug Administration's Office of Epidemiology--known inside the Beltway as "Animal House"--was going to turn out. Wonder no...

Pesticide exposures tied to diabetes risk.
Workers who use chemical pesticides on more than 100 days during their lifetimes are at greater risk for diabetes, according to a National Institutes of Health study published in the May issue of the American Journal of Epidemiology. Researchers found the association between pesticides and diabetes incidence...

More young men have stage IV prostate cancer.
CHICAGO -- Advanced prostate cancer is being diagnosed increasingly in younger men aged 60 years or less in the United States, despite the widespread availability of prostate-specific antigen testing, according to epidemiologic evidence spanning 15 years from the Surveillance, Epidemiology, and End Results database. "That's the bad...