The Cancer Research UK team analysed disease and population data from organisations such as the Office for National Statistics.
Additionally, disease and weather data is also frequently shared via mobile phones, alerting farmers when to spray pesticides or harvest crops.
The average American is 36 times more likely to die from heart disease than be murdered, six times more likely to die in an accident and four times more likely to die from Alzheimer's disease, according to data compiled by the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention's National Center for Health Statistics.
The range of subjects is impressive, from greenhouse gas emissions, wealth and disease to more obscure data about numbers of dentists and working tractors.
Instead of relying only on the literature, we can and should develop and utilize computational methods to reverse engineer disease pathways from observational data, followed by simulated therapeutic interventions that will guide real treatments (see Figure 1 here).
In the comments section, a reader pointed me toward more-detailed data from the Center for Disease Control (CDC), which captures death-certificate data from all the states.
Data relating to disease prevalence or causes of death are published only patchily.
Its shares tumbled 3.6% in Zurich as the company said it had stopped a trial of heart-disease drug dalcetrapib after disappointing data.
Aside from being a difficult disease to treat, scant data from its failed trail with the drug Rituxan leave investors with little guidance going forward.
This happens more often than you might think as researchers searching for clues to disease perform numerous analyses on complicated data sets.
Researchers at the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention analysed hospital data on up to eight million patients a year between 1995 and 2008.
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention have been collecting data only since 2001, the year the Gaston triplets were born.
Some 99, 000 people die each year from infections acquired in the hospital, according to data from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
It's hoped that the work could result in a better understanding of disease, as well as provide useful data for the advancement of robotics.
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According to the latest data from the Center for Disease Control and the American Cancer Society, more than ten million Americans are living with some form of cancer.
Data from the Centers for Disease Control found that only about a third of Americans consumed fruits twice a day and only a quarter ate vegetables at least three times daily.
According to data from the Centers for Disease Control, there are about 1.9 million new diagnoses of diabetes, about 208, 000 of lung cancer, and about 140, 000 of epilepsy in one year.
Nissen then walked through a series of slides arguing diabetes drugs are approved with almost no long-term data in patients with heart disease--even though, after approval, heart patients get the drugs for a long time.
More than 35% of adults in the United States are obese, according to the latest data from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, and that figure could rise above 50% by 2030.
Robb's 92-year-old grandmother is one of an estimated 36 million people worldwide with dementia, according to 2010 data from Alzheimer's Disease International, and Robb is one of about 65.7 million people in the United States taking care of relatives with various conditions, including dementia.
According to data from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention's Behavioral Risk Factor Surveillance System Survey 2004, more than 70% of adult Milwaukeeans reported that they had had at least one alcoholic drink within the past 30 days--the highest percentage on our list.
As of 2008, 23% of adolescents between the ages of 12 and 19 had diabetes or the precursor condition known as pre-diabetes, up from just 9% in 1999, according to a new analysis of national survey data from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
At the heart of the research data to understand the genetics of disease is the National Center for Biotechnology Information (NCBI).
On November 27, 2012, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) released data to highlight the impact of HIV among youth in the United States.
They monitor news media, government agencies, airline Global Distribution System, corporate data bases, the Centers For Disease Control and foreign health organizations, police, fire and many foreign outlets.
Obesity and tobacco use each kill more 400, 000 Americans a year, ten times as many people as die in car accidents, according to data collected by the Centers for Disease Control.
The Pew study chiefly used federal data from the federal Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, and the Justice Department's National Crime Victimization Survey, a household survey conducted by the Census Bureau.
An October Forbes.com article and list about the metropolitan areas with the most accidents was based on faulty data provided by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, a CDC official said Friday.
Last week, IBM Research announced a pilot with the Center for Disease Control and Prevention and the Public Health Data Standards Consortium to work on standardizing the exchange of health information among public health departments, doctors, and the CDC.
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