An explosive amount of scientific information generated today requires medical students to keep abreast of latest innovations and paradigm shifts in basic science and be capable of adapting it all to clinical practice. Respiratory: An Integrated Approach to Disease elegantly connects the dots between cell biology, anatomy, physiology, pharmacology, pathology, and clinical medicine to draw a com...

In recent years, high-throughput scientific studies without any clear hypothesis have become very common. For example, a large-scale genomic study of a disease may examine thousands of genes without hypothesizing that any specific gene that is responsible for the disease. In these studies, the objective is to explore a large number of possible factors (e.g., genes) in order to identify a small ...

If both height and weight are normally distributed, we use the Pearson’s correlation; otherwise Spearman’s correlation coefficient will be presented. Spearman’s correlation is also applicable for two categorical ordinal variables like pain intensity (no, mild, moderate, severe) with burn-surface-area (< 10%, 10% 19%, 20% 29%, ≥ 30%). Table I shows the correlation coefficient between height and ...

David Alexander's job didn't exist ten years ago. He works for Pacific Biosciences in Menlo Park, California, writing software that can analyse the data generated by DNA polymerase enzymes, which sequence DNA in real time. A decade ago, it took scientists weeks to sequence DNA, one base at a time, using a seemingly endless series of reactions. Back then, they also thought that they would be abl...

Department of Biostatistics, The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center, Houston, Texas, USA Department of Biostatistics, The University of Texas School of Public Health, Houston, Texas, USA Department of Epidemiology, Human Genetics and Environmental Sciences, The University of Texas School of Public Health, Houston, Texas, USA Department of Biostatistics, The University of Texas School...

1. Dept. of Epidemiology & Biostatistics, School of Public Health, Hamadan University of Medical Sciences, Hamadan, Iran 2. Dept. of Epidemiology & Biostatistics, School of Public Health, Rafsanjan University of Medical Sciences, Rafsanjan, Iran 3. Dept. of Epidemiology & Biostatistics, School of Public Health, Tehran University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran 4. Minimally Invasive Surgery Re...

The Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics integrates diverse educational programs with a rapidly growing research portfolio. Graduate students have the opportunity to study and participate in faculty research projects in a variety of academic disciplines, including infectious disease, cancer, nutritional and disaster epidemiology, applied biostatistical methods, and public health laborat...