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Big data has come to epidemiology. The promise is exciting: biobanks full of measurements of toxic chemicals, metabolites, and early disease markers for huge populations, combined with deep medical records databases permit investigations of thousands of potentially beneficial causal links between exposures and diseases. And, just in time, machine learning algorithms to accelerate the search through these data for promising new treatment and prevention strategies. These developments would seem to…

Testo in italiano disponibile qui In early April, more than 90% of the staff of the U.S. National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health (NIOSH) received e-mail notices that their jobs had been eliminated. The agency had a staff of approximately 1500 employees spread over 5 states and Washington D.C. Essentially all of the staff have been laid off. The Trump administration gave misleading public statements about the staff reductions, saying that these were limited cuts, with the goal of in…