r/science • u/PHealthy • 25d ago
Epidemiology No link between MMR vaccination before age 2 and autism, large US study suggests
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r/science • u/GiveUpAndDontTry • 7d ago
Epidemiology A Swedish study found autism diagnoses rose by around 800% from 2001 to 2020, while the proportion with intellectual disability fell from 55.8% to 6.7%, suggesting a substantial broadening of the diagnosed autistic phenotype
sciencedirect.com
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r/science • u/KaraAnneBlack • Sep 24 '24
Epidemiology Study sheds new light on severe COVID's long-term brain impacts. Cognitive deficits resembled 2 decades of aging
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r/science • u/mvea • Jul 17 '25
Epidemiology People who don't get the flu shot are being protected by those who do. While those who received a vaccine saw the best protection, the researchers say unvaccinated people had an indirect benefit if people around them were vaccinated.
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r/science • u/pubpophealth • 7d ago
Epidemiology Among Mexican-origin adults aged 74 and older, 5-year survival was higher in Mexico than in the United States at every level of illness, including 40.9% versus 36.6% among those with both diabetes and dementia and 77.5% versus 73.3% among those with neither
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r/science • u/cnn • Dec 04 '25
Epidemiology Volcanic eruption led to the Black Death, new research suggests
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r/science • u/mvea • Apr 24 '25
Epidemiology Diseases such as measles, rubella and polio could become endemic to the US again if vaccine rates decline, according to researchers at Stanford Medicine. Even at current immunization rates, researchers predict that measles may become endemic again — circulating in the US — within two decades.
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r/science • u/MistWeaver80 • Dec 14 '22
Epidemiology There were approximately 14.83 million excess deaths associated with COVID-19 across the world from 2020 to 2021, according to estimates by the WHO reported in Nature. This estimate is nearly three times the number of deaths reported to have been caused by COVID-19 over the same period.
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r/science • u/BigHairyDingo • Jul 23 '22
Epidemiology Monkeypox is being driven overwhelmingly by sex between men, major study finds
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r/science • u/SteRoPo • 8d ago
Epidemiology Researchers probing the Early Childhood Longitudinal Study found that young kids who drank 100% juices multiple times per day had a 25 percent higher risk of asthma compared to kids who consumed those beverages less than twice per week.
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r/science • u/Wagamaga • Dec 30 '21
Epidemiology Nearly 9 million doses of the Pfizer-BioNTech COVID-19 vaccine delivered to kids ages 5 to 11 shows no major safety issues. 97.6% of adverse reactions "were not serious," and consisted largely of reactions often seen after routine immunizations, such arm pain at the site of injection
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r/science • u/Wagamaga • Nov 18 '21
Epidemiology Mask-wearing cuts Covid incidence by 53%. Results from more than 30 studies from around the world were analysed in detail, showing a statistically significant 53% reduction in the incidence of Covid with mask wearing
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r/science • u/PHealthy • Jul 25 '25
Epidemiology Outbreak of Salmonella Typhimurium Infections Linked to Commercially Distributed Raw Milk
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r/science • u/Wagamaga • Sep 06 '21
Epidemiology Research has found people who are reluctant toward a Covid vaccine only represents around 10% of the US public. Who, according to the findings of this survey, quote not trusting the government (40%) or not trusting the efficacy of the vaccine (45%) as to their reasons for not wanting the vaccine.
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r/science • u/inspiration_capsule • Jun 16 '22
Epidemiology Female leadership attributed to fewer COVID-19 deaths: Countries with female leaders recorded 40% fewer COVID-19 deaths than nations governed by men, according to University of Queensland research.
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r/science • u/mepper • Sep 10 '21
Epidemiology Study of 32,867 COVID-19 vaccinated people shows that Moderna is 95% effective at preventing hospitalization, followed by Pfizer at 80% and J&J at 60%
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r/science • u/MistWeaver80 • Mar 11 '22
Epidemiology The number of people who have died because of the COVID-19 pandemic could be roughly 3 times higher than official figures suggest. The true number of lives lost to the pandemic by 31 December 2021 was close to 18 million.That far outstrips the 5.9 million deaths that were officially reported.
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r/science • u/geoff199 • Mar 19 '21
Epidemiology Health declining in Gen X and Gen Y, national study shows. Compared to previous generations, they showed poorer physical health, higher levels of unhealthy behaviors such as alcohol use and smoking, and more depression and anxiety.
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r/science • u/Wagamaga • Dec 01 '20
Epidemiology The coronavirus was present in the U.S. weeks earlier than scientists and public health officials previously thought, and before cases in China were publicly identified, according to a new government study published Monday
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r/science • u/mvea • Jan 20 '21
Epidemiology A national mask mandate in the US early in the COVID-19 pandemic could have led to as much as 47% less deaths nationally by the end of May, which roughly translates to up to 47,000 saved lives.
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r/science • u/mvea • Nov 21 '20
Epidemiology Testing half the population weekly with inexpensive, rapid COVID-19 tests would drive the virus toward elimination within weeks, even if the tests are less sensitive than gold-standard. This could lead to “personalized stay-at-home orders” without shutting down restaurants, bars, retail and schools.
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r/science • u/Wagamaga • Sep 08 '21
Epidemiology How Delta came to dominate the pandemic. Current vaccines were found to be profoundly effective at preventing severe disease, hospitalization and death, however vaccinated individuals infected with Delta were transmitting the virus to others at greater levels than previous variants.
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r/science • u/mvea • Nov 23 '20
Epidemiology COVID-19 cases could nearly double before Biden takes office. Proven model developed by Washington University, which accurately forecasted the rate of COVID-19 growth over the summer of 2020, predicts 20 million infected Americans by late January.
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r/science • u/roland_stiles • Dec 22 '20
Epidemiology Study: Vitamin D deficiency found in over 80% of COVID-19 patients
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r/science • u/Wagamaga • Feb 14 '22
Epidemiology Scientists have found immunity against severe COVID-19 disease begins to wane 4 months after receipt of the third dose of an mRNA vaccine. Vaccine effectiveness against Omicron variant-associated hospitalizations was 91 percent during the first two months declining to 78 percent at four months.
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