Stamp bags are small wax packets that contain mixtures of illicit drugs, most commonly heroin, packaged for sale and sometimes stamped with a graphical logo by drug dealers to market their contents.
Maria Mori Brooks, PhD, co-director of the Epidemiology Data Center, was an invited speaker at the inaugural Women in Data Science Conference (WiDS) Pittsburgh @CMU on March 9, 2018.
In this multicenter longitudinal study, the 7-year weight and comorbid health changes following Roux-en-Y gastric bypass and laparoscopic adjustable gastric banding were assessed.
The second project of the LITES Network (Task Order #2) is a four-year observational study examining the use of whole blood resuscitation compared to component resuscitation in poly-trauma patients with hemorrhagic shock.
EDC PhD student Shiyao Gao, and EDC faculty Anthony Fabio and Stephen Wisniewski find that disparities in health care utilization of adults with traumatic brain injuries are related to race, SES and ethnicity.
Dr. El Khoudary was awarded a 2 year grant from the NIH titled “Effects of Hormone Therapy on Heart Fat and Atherosclerosis Progression in Early Postmenopausal Women from the KEEPS Trial”.
Wendy King and Steve Belle, along with co-authors, have published a paper showing that while the proportion of adults with severe obesity using prescription opioids initially declines in the months after bariatric surgery, it increases within a matter of years, eventually surpassing pre-surgery rates of patients using the potentially addictive pain medications.
Anthony Fabio will present the results of the study at the at the 2017 Society for Violence and Injury Research Annual Meeting.
Kathleen Creppage, a DrPH student, presented her dissertation research at Pitt Day in Harrisburg. Dr Rachel Levine stopped by Kathleen’s poster and tweeted a picture of them!
