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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.
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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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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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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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Category: Cancer epidemiology
HPV has been linked to more than cervical cancer; oral cancers can result from infection.
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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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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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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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Category: Cancer epidemiology
Do late nights increase a woman's risk of breast cancer?
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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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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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