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Aetiology

Discussing causes, origins, evolution, and implications of disease and other phenomena.

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Tara C. Smith is an Assistant Professor of Epidemiology. Her research involves a number of pathogens at the animal-human nexus. Additionally, she is the founder of Iowa Citizens for Science and also writes for The Panda's Thumb and previously for WIRED SCIENCE's Correlations. Please note the views expressed on this site are Dr. Smith's alone and may not be representative of the groups mentioned above.

"...a veritable expert on tawdry cosmetic procedures gone horribly awry..."--Kevin Beck

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Cancer epidemiology:

Helicobacter pylori: an introduction

Category: Cancer epidemiology

Helicobacter pylori is, by bacteriological standards, a relative newcomer to medicine. Although its pathogenesis has been studied for only about the past 20 years, there are reports from as far back as the late 19th century of small, helical...

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Infectious Disease-Chronic Inflammation-Cancer

Category: Cancer epidemiology

This is the third of 6 guest posts on infection and chronic disease. Does chronic IL-6 levels lead to epigenetic changes in DNA methylation that contribute to this pathway? By Matthew Fitzgerald How can infection be a carcinogen? How do...

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The ABCs (and DEGs) of hepatitis viruses

Category: Cancer epidemiology

Hepatitis viruses are making news around the world; find a roundup of the various types (and their basic epidemiology) here.

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Behaviors, Human Papilloma Virus and Sex Act Cancers

Category: Cancer epidemiology

HPV has been linked to more than cervical cancer; oral cancers can result from infection.

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Could the Cervical Cancer Vaccine Gardasil also Protect against Breast Cancer?

Category: Cancer epidemiology

Viruses are increasingly being linked to cancers; could a vaccine against one type of virus protect against multiple cancers?

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Help save the Tasmanian devil

Category: Activism

A strange cancer is decimating the population of Tasmanian devils; volunteers and donors from around the world are helping scientists fight back.

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Update on Tasmanian Devil cancer

Category: Cancer epidemiology

More insight into why this strange cancer is killing Tasmanian devils--and why they can't fight it off.

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The perils of being a night owl

Category: Cancer epidemiology

Do late nights increase a woman's risk of breast cancer?

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Duesberg on cancer, deconstructed

Category: Cancer epidemiology

A few readers have asked me what I thought about HIV "dissident" Peter Duesberg's recent article in Scientific American, entitled Chromosomal Chaos and Cancer. Duesberg's cancer ideas--and his claim of novelty for researching how chromosomal abnormalities, rather than more simpler...

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Yet another study shows no link between abortion and breast cancer

Category: Cancer epidemiology

Surprise, surprise...science trumps ideology once again. What are the odds it will actually make a difference in policy?

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