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Research Digest
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October 2012
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Dosing exercise: Minimal contact interventions significantly increase physical activity in those at high risk for colon cancer
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Local public health response to obesity epidemic may be lacking in areas at highest risk
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| Health Services Research |Katherine Stamatakis, PhD, MPH Published in Journal of Public Health Practice and ManagementPubMed | Stamatakis Profile
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Overweight men with an aggressive type of non-Hodgkin lymphoma may have a better survival rate
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| Clinical Outcomes Research |Kenneth Carson, MD Published in Journal of Clinical OncologyPubMed | Carson Profile
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ABOUT USThis newsletter provides a select summary of research news from the Division of Public Health Sciences.
We are a team of researchers and clinicians dedicated to preventing disease, improving health outcomes, and promoting quality and access to health care.
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Division News Briefs
- Mary Politi, PhD, was elected to the board of the Society for Medical Decision Making and will serve a three-year term from 2012 to 2015. This position extends from her work with the society since 2009 on the education committee, membership committee, as career development chair, and scientific review chair of SMDM's annual meetings.
- Kim Kaphingst, ScD, and Washington University in St. Louis co-investigators Jen Ivanovich, MS, MBA, Melody Goodman, PhD, and Rebecca Dresser, JD, received a grant from the National Cancer Institute at the National Institutes for Health (R01 CA168608) to study communication preferences for whole genome sequencing results and the factors affecting these preferences among women who were diagnosed with breast cancer at age forty or younger.
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