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epidemiology

[ep-i-dee-mee-ol-uh-jee, -dem-ee-] / ˌɛp ɪˌdi miˈɒl ə dʒi, -ˌdɛm i- /
NOUN
public health
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The study was published in the European Journal of Epidemiology.

From The Wall Street Journal • May 20, 2026

"If we see advertisements for fast food everywhere, it normalizes the consumption of behaviour of fast consumption," says Mackenbach, who is from the Department of Epidemiology and Data Science at hospital Amsterdam University Medical Center.

From BBC • May 3, 2026

Younger adults need to recognize that they may be at risk, said Dr. Sadiya Khan, Magerstadt professor of Cardiovascular Epidemiology at Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine, who wasn’t involved in the latest study.

From The Wall Street Journal • Feb. 26, 2026

California’s high TB rates could be caused by a large portion of the population traveling to areas where TB is endemic, said Dr. Shruti Gohil, associate medical director for UCI Health Epidemiology and Infection Prevention.

From Los Angeles Times • Feb. 3, 2026

The study, published in Cancer Epidemiology Biomarkers and Prevention, is among the first to closely examine how neighborhood conditions relate to molecular changes inside breast tumors.

From Science Daily • Dec. 30, 2025




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