Epidemiology & Medical Statistics

THE MOST PRACTICAL, UP-TO-DATE GUIDE TO MODELLING AND ANALYZING TIME-TO-EVENT DATA—NOW IN A VALUABLE NEW EDITION Since publication of the first ed...

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During the last twenty years statistical methodology has become of central importance in research studies in medicine and also in day-to-day clinic...

Ever since their arrival in North America, European colonists and their descendants have struggled to explain the epidemics that decimated native p...

In the only history of its kind, Etheridge traces the development of the Centers for Disease Control from its inception as a malaria control unit d...

Until now our knowledge of African health and healing has been extensive but fragmented. Here in eighteen essays is the first comprehensive account...

Paul Farmer has battled AIDS in rural Haiti and deadly strains of drug-resistant tuberculosis in the slums of Peru. A physician-anthropologist with...

Twenty years ago the world slept, confident that biomedical science would protect it from devastating plagues. Our wake-up call sounded at the outb...

A story of courage and risk-taking, "House on Fire" tells how smallpox, a disease that killed, blinded, and scarred millions over centuries of huma...

The media constantly bombard us with news of health hazards lurking in our everyday lives, but many of these hazards turn out to have been greatly ...

Cholera, although it can kill an adult through dehydration in half a day, is easily treated. Yet in 1992-93, some five hundred people died from cho...

This concise book will help you to interpret the statistical evidence provided by quantitative studies and to plan how to work with data in your ow...

Our understanding, prevention, and treatment of HIV have made remarkable strides in the past two decades, but the way has not been smooth or straig...

In this work, Dr. Link explains the extent of new, resurgent, and resistant diseases defying the abilities of science and medicine, or often findin...

When plague broke out in Manchuria in 1910 as a result of transmission from marmots to humans, it struck a region struggling with the introduction ...

Incorporating many rare photographs from the family albums of survivors who tell their stories, Harvard professor Julie Silver, M.D., and historian...

Polio was the most dreaded disease of twentieth-century America. Whenever and wherever it struck, hospitals filled with victims of the virus. Many ...

The media constantly bombard us with news of health hazards lurking in our everyday lives, but many of these hazards turn out to have been greatly ...

In the early fall of 1897, yellow fever shuttered businesses, paralyzed trade, and caused tens of thousand of people living in the southern United ...

In the early fall of 1897, yellow fever shuttered businesses, paralyzed trade, and caused tens of thousand of people living in the southern United ...