12 stories tagged epidemiology, newest first.
13 points by rbanffy | 10 comments
Science news article reporting a study estimating Europe's 2026 summer heat wave killed over 50,000 people in cities, with two-thirds of deaths attributed to climate change.
8 points by gumby | 6 comments
A BMJ Open research article on cannabis legalisation and cardiovascular hospitalisations in the USA; the capture shows a Cloudflare block page instead.
5 points by surprisetalk | 2 comments
A dataset by Robin Wilson digitising John Snow's 1854 Broad Street cholera map, with death points, pump locations, and georeferenced maps for GIS software.
11 points by bookofjoe | 0 comments
Live Science article on a study finding about 1 in 8 cancer cases are caused by infections, mostly from four pathogens, and the role of vaccines in prevention.
172 points by timpera | 63 comments
An Ecomodernist article by Deric Tilson and Adam Stein questioning the methodology behind studies claiming various things cause cancer.
217 points by colinprince | 122 comments
CBC News article on a Lancet Oncology study estimating that infections caused 2.3 million new cancer cases worldwide in 2024, about 1 in 8.
654 points by bilsbie | 338 comments
A 2023 study in the journal SLEEP finding that sleep regularity predicts mortality risk better than sleep duration; the capture shows a Cloudflare verification page.
545 points by stared | 301 comments
Eurosurveillance open-access research article on HPV prevalence in cervical samples from Danish women vaccinated as girls, Trial23 cohort, 2017–2024.
332 points by hhs | 110 comments
University of Cambridge research news article reporting that long-term exposure to outdoor air pollution is linked to increased dementia risk.
337 points by tchalla | 279 comments
Open-access Nature Medicine article estimating the burden of type 2 diabetes and cardiovascular disease attributable to sugar-sweetened beverages across 184 countries.
589 points by guiambros | 251 comments
Twitter thread by researcher Pascal Geldsetzer announcing a preprint with causal evidence that the shingles vaccine prevents a substantial share of dementia cases.
674 points by lonelyasacloud | 317 comments
Science magazine news article reporting that a common environmental contaminant chemical raised Parkinson's disease rates by 70% in one population.