#epidemiology

An interview with former Damon Runyon Clinical Investigator Li Li, MD, PhD, MPH about the role of prevention in the continuum of cancer care

Hospital and public health officials are reviewing their crisis standards of care plans with an eye toward COVID-19 infections.

“In an outbreak situation, the public health response is effectuated at the state and local level.”

Efforts to control viral hepatitis are falling behind, in part because of the growing opioid epidemic and homelessness crisis.

The Senate recently voted to extend the September 11th Victim Compensation Fund for decades to come.

Mammograms and better treatment are credited with averting 400,000 to 600,000 cancer deaths since 1989.

Cancer geneticists, epidemiologists and oncologists team up to use mutation rate to predict individual cancer risk.

Uveal melanoma occurs when melanin-producing cells form tumors in the eye, and is very different from cutaneous (skin) melanoma.

The All of Us Research Program aims to collect data from 1 million people.

“It’s important to be positive and turn challenges into opportunities—and celebrate when those opportunities become scientific achievements”