Topic
Epidemiology
72 published works
Tortini
Acetaminophen – Bradford Hill Confounded Part 06
“The credulous man is father to the liar and the cheat… .”[1] On the appeal from the MDL court’s exclusion of plaintiffs’ expert witnesses’ causation opinions, Judge Calebresi’s acknowledged both…
Marler Blog
The Produce Industry’s Own Association Just Closed Its Cyclospora Page. It Says a Food Was Identified, That the Finding Rested on Epidemiology and Traceback, and That No Positive Sample Was Ever Needed. Taylor Farms Should Read It.
By Bill Marler
On Sunday and Monday I posted about this outbreak. One post showed that FDA already answered the argument Taylor Farms is making, in a 2020 warning letter to another salad company. The…
Shigella Blog
Shigella Is a Notifiable Disease. Where Are the Outbreaks?
By Bill Marler
I went looking for a recent foodborne Shigella outbreak in the United States — anything from the last sixty days. I could not find one that any health department had…
Tortini
A Bayesian Toehold in the New Reference Guide to Epidemiology
The most recent edition of the Reference Manual on epidemiology distinguishes more carefully between Bayesian and frequentist approaches to statistical analyses than did its previous iterations. In past editions, the…
Tortini
The 4th Reference Manual’s Treatment of Genetic Causes of Disease
After checking to see whether the new Reference Manual on Scientific Evidence[1] attended to some long overdue corrections, I turned my attention to the substance of the chapter on epidemiology.…
Food Safety News
Researchers analyze the impact of the Ukraine war on foodborne pathogens
Scientists have found an increase in botulism and salmonellosis in Ukraine compared to before the invasion by Russia. To analyze the war's effects on infectious disease epidemiology, researchers used open-source…
Drug & Device Law
Maybe New Rule 702 Can Rein in Bradford-Hill Abuse
By Bexis
In our recent post describing the best prescription medical product liability litigation decisions of 2023, no fewer than three of the opinions we discussed: #4 In re Acetaminophen-ASD-ADHD Products Liability…
Health Law Prof Blog
On the Effectiveness of Flight Ban Strategies in the Fight Against COVID-19 Variants of Concern
Xiaoqian Sun (Beihang University), Sebastian Wandelt (Beijing Key Laboratory for Network-based Cooperative ATM), Changhong Zheng (Beihang University), Anming Zhang (University of British Columbia), On the Effectiveness of Flight Ban Strategies…
The Right Coast
The Fickle Science of Lockdowns – WSJ
Even at the outset of Covid-19, the unwisdom of lockdowns guided mainstream epidemiology. When the Wuhan region of China imposed harsh restrictions on Jan. 23, 2020, Anthony Fauci questioned the…
Drug & Device Law
Incretin State Court – The Expert Blip
Last week we brought you both the federal and state court decisions in the Incretin Litigation granting summary judgment on the grounds of preemption. But that was not the only…