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Department of Public Health Sciences
For more than 50 years, the Department of Public Health Sciences has provided graduate education and engaged in research aimed at improving health and health care for citizens. The focus of research and graduate programs is on health policy and management, health technology assessment, epidemiology and biostatistics, environmental health and global health. Collectively, faculty members represent many disciplines in the natural, biomedical, clinical, social, economic and behavioral sciences.
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Ocular Gene Transfer in the Spotlight: Implications of Newspaper Content for Clinical Communications
Download2014-10-24
Bubela, Tania, Benjaminy, Shelly
Background Ocular gene transfer clinical trials are raising hopes for blindness treatments and attracting media attention. News media provide an accessible health information source for patients and the public, but are often criticized for overemphasizing benefits and underplaying risks of novel...