Epidemiological methods provide a comprehensive toolkit for understanding the distribution, determinants and dynamics of disease within populations. Fundamental to public health, these methods range ...

Several sports have published consensus statements on methods and reporting of epidemiological studies concerning injuries and illnesses with football (soccer) producing one of the first guidelines.

The restricted mean survival time (RMST) analysis technique was introduced in health care research about 25 years ago and since then has become widely used in economics, engineering, business and ...

All faculty in the Department of Epidemiology have research backgrounds, and many have public health practice experience. Research and practice are done in all major areas of epidemiology, including ...

More than half of patients prescribed medical cannabis for chronic musculoskeletal pain stop using it within a year, according to new research from Philadelphia that raises fresh questions about the ...

Efficient and effective control of the pandemic requires complete epidemiological data that involves accurate and timely parameters of disease transmission, disease burden, and disease severity. Poor ...

Understanding how people eat and their determinants requires looking beyond individual choices. Nutrition researchers ...

A new study by investigators from Mass General Brigham suggests that gabapentin, a relatively common anti-seizure/pain medication, is linked to improved survival in patients with glioblastoma ...