Medical research shapes healthcare every day, but not all studies are created equal. Knowing the differences can help you feel more confident reading health information online and understanding what ...

Epidemiological methods provide a comprehensive toolkit for understanding the distribution, determinants and dynamics of disease within populations. Fundamental to public health, these methods range ...

Emerging tropical pathogens remain a major global health concern, particularly in tropical and subtropical regions where ...

Medical research is essential for advancing the understanding of health, diseases, and treatments. There are many types of studies that serve different purposes. Medical research, or health research, ...

Epidemiologists identify public health hazards, evaluate health interventions and monitor health systems data to protect public health. Every day epidemiologists across the world analyze data, conduct ...

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Innovative statistical method helps determine ideal threshold times in restricted mean survival time analyses. The restricted mean survival time (RMST) analysis technique was introduced in health care ...

Graduates with an MPH in Epidemiology can become epidemiologists, data scientists or public health consultants, working to prevent and control diseases on a global scale. Accredited by the Council on ...

The restricted mean survival time (RMST) analysis technique was introduced in health care research about 25 years ago and since then has become widely used in economics, engineering, business and ...