The recent emergence of an apparently new form of chronic kidney disease of unknown
aetiology (CKDu) has become a serious public health crisis in Sri Lanka. CKDu is slowly …

Residential mobility processes remain largely a black box for housing policy researchers.
Whereas neighborhood sociodemographic indicators provide insight into the types of push …

Introduction The spectrum of bladder health and the factors that promote bladder health and
prevent lower urinary tract symptoms (LUTS) among women are not well understood. This …

Timely recruitment of population controls in infectious disease outbreak investigations is
challenging. We evaluated the timeliness and cost of using a market research panel as a …

Purpose Epidemiologists often seek a representative sample of particular persons from
geographically bounded areas. However, it has become increasingly difficult to identify a …

Advertising, as no other professional discourse type, presupposes extensive use of
expressive linguistic means specially designed for producing emotional effects on the …

Introduction Observational studies of influenza vaccine effectiveness often study persons
seeking medical care for acute respiratory infection (ARI). We conducted a pilot study to …

Thirteen-valent pneumococcal conjugate vaccine (PCV13) was licensed for use in children
in the United States in February 2010. Shortly thereafter the Centers for Disease Control and …