Neocolonial epidemiology

"Breaking the bureaucracy": drug registration and neocolonial relations in Egypt.

According to the Egyptian Ministry of Health, the per capita use of prescription drugs in Egypt is amongst the highest in the world. Multinational pharmaceutical companies license their proprietary products for manufacture and sale in Egypt through their Egyptian subsidiaries. A Ministry of Health Committee reviews and approves for sale all drugs marketed in the country. Aside from being an ext...

Epidemiology Weekly Report

تا ۳۱ دسامبر سال ۱۹۹۳، جمعاً ۸۵۱۶۲۸ مورد بیماری ایدز در بزرگسالان و کودکان بوسیله سازمان بهداشت جهانی گزارش شده است. این آمارها به دلیل تعداد موارد گزارش نشده یا تشخیص داده نشده و همچنین تأخیر در گزارشات آماری، تحت تأثیر قرار گرفته اند، لذا تعداد موارد گزارش شده بیماری ایدز با تعداد برآورد شده این بیماری یکسان نیست. بدین ترتیب برآورد می شود که تا به این تاریخ، بیش از ۳ میلیون مورد بیماری ایدز در...

Environmental epidemiology: An introduction

Epidemiology of Inflight Medical Events

Introduction: Since the 1950s, air travel has grown exponentially. In 2018, the number of international air passengers was estimated at 4.1 billion. Air travel exposes the passenger to a number of constraints (like physical constraints, stress) that can be correlated and lead to an inflight medical event, especially for passengers with chronic conditions or fragile health.<br /...

Molecular epidemiology; New but impressive

&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; Molecular epidemiology is a subdivision of medical science and epidemiology that emphases on the involvement of potential environmental and genetic risk factors, recognized at the molecular level, to the etiology and avoidance of sickness through populations. This arena has developed from the combination of molecular biology and traditional epidemiological research. Molecular...