Americas

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  Subject Areas on Research

  • "Death and taxes": a contrary view. 
  • A sex-specific association between a 15q25 variant and upper aerodigestive tract cancers. 
  • Alteration of human sperm kinematics in cervical mucus due to nonoxynol-9. 
  • Alternative models for the heterogeneity of mortality risks among the aged. 
  • Assessing patients' and caregivers' perspectives on stability of factor VIII products for haemophilia A: a web-based study in the United States and Canada. 
  • Chagas disease: "the new HIV/AIDS of the Americas". 
  • Cigarette smoking and the risk of female reproductive cancer. 
  • Consequences of return migrant status for employment in Puerto Rico. 
  • 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. 
  • Demographic consequences of migration trends in Puerto Rico: 1950-1980. 
  • Diversity and carbon storage across the tropical forest biome. 
  • 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 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. 
  • Health and wages: evidence on men and women in urban Brazil. 
  • Improving the accuracy of intercensal estimates and postcensal projections of the civilian noninstitutional population: a parameterization of institutional prevalence rates. 
  • 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. 
  • Migration and household/family structure: Puerto Ricans in the United States. 
  • Mortality patterns in developed countries. 
  • Oral contraceptive pills. Prevention of ovarian cancer and other benefits. 
  • Oral contraceptives as an over-the-counter medication. 
  • 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. 
  • Safety and efficacy of the HIV-1 attachment inhibitor prodrug BMS-663068 in treatment-experienced individuals: 24 week results of AI438011, a phase 2b, randomised controlled trial. 
  • Single- and multiple-dose pharmacokinetics of a low-dose oral contraceptive in women with chronic renal failure undergoing peritoneal dialysis. 
  • Surveillance of iclaprim activity: In vitro susceptibility of gram-positive pathogens collected from 2012 to 2014 from the United States, Asia Pacific, Latin American and Europe. 
  • 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 American College of Rheumatology response criteria for proliferative and membranous renal disease in systemic lupus erythematosus clinical trials. 
  • 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. 
  • The impact of large terrestrial carnivores on Pleistocene ecosystems 
  • Zika in the Americas, year 2: What have we learned? What gaps remain? A report from the Global Virus Network. 
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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 of Biology, Evolutionary Anthropology