Americas

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  Subject Areas on Research

  • "Death and taxes": a contrary view. 
  • A linear models application of competing risks to multiple causes of death. 
  • Alteration of human sperm kinematics in cervical mucus due to nonoxynol-9. 
  • Alternative models for the heterogeneity of mortality risks among the aged. 
  • Chagas disease: "the new HIV/AIDS of the Americas". 
  • Cigarette smoking and the risk of female reproductive cancer. 
  • Clinical use of oral contraceptives administered vaginally: a case report. 
  • Cost-effectiveness of pharmacotherapies for nicotine dependence in primary care settings: a multinational comparison. 
  • Cycle control with triphasic norgestimate and ethinyl estradiol, a new oral contraceptive agent. 
  • Does weight loss from middle age to old age explain the inverse weight mortality relation in old age? 
  • Educational status and active life expectancy among older blacks and whites. 
  • Effects of estrogen/progestin agents on plasma retinoids and chylomicron remnant metabolism. 
  • Effects of postpartum psychiatric illnesses on family planning. 
  • Empirical Bayes procedures for stabilizing maps of U.S. cancer mortality rates. 
  • Evidence for a black-white crossover in all-cause and coronary heart disease mortality in an older population: the North Carolina EPESE. 
  • Genome-wide tagging for everyone. 
  • International variation in the use of evidence-based medicines for acute coronary syndromes. 
  • Is birth order associated with adult mortality? 
  • Jaw muscles of New World squirrels. 
  • Linkage of a gene for macular corneal dystrophy to chromosome 16. 
  • Measurement and modulation of nonoxynol-9 diffusion and bioactivity against spermatozoa in human cervical mucus. 
  • Methods for combining ancillary data in stochastic compartment models of cancer mortality: generalization of heterogeneity models. 
  • Mortality patterns in developed countries. 
  • Multiple partners, risky partners and HIV risk among low-income urban women. 
  • Oral contraceptive pills. Prevention of ovarian cancer and other benefits. 
  • Oral contraceptives as an over-the-counter medication. 
  • Predictors of condom use and human immunodeficiency virus test seeking among women living in inner-city public housing developments. 
  • Pregnancy outcomes among adolescent and older women receiving comprehensive prenatal care. 
  • Projecting the future size and health status of the U.S. elderly population. 
  • Putting biomedical knowledge to use in the Third World. 
  • Rapid changes in the gut microbiome during human evolution. 
  • Refeeding during recovery from acute diarrhea. 
  • Religion, spirituality and mental health in the West and the Middle East. 
  • Sexual assault and psychiatric disorders among a community sample of women. 
  • Single- and multiple-dose pharmacokinetics of a low-dose oral contraceptive in women with chronic renal failure undergoing peritoneal dialysis. 
  • Temporal and age variation of United States black/white cause-specific mortality differentials: a study of the recent changes in the relative health status of the United States black population. 
  • The black/white mortality crossover: investigation from the perspective of the components of aging. 
  • The black/white mortality crossover: possible racial differences in the intrinsic rate of aging. 
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  Keywords of People

  • Berchuck, Andrew, James M. Ingram Professor of Gynecologic Oncology, Obstetrics and Gynecology, Gynecologic Oncology
  • Roth, V. Louise, Professor in the Department of Biology, Evolutionary Anthropology