Below are new open access articles just published in Evolution, Medicine, & Public Health

Clinical Brief:

  • Karen Rosenberg and
  • Wenda Trevathan

Evolutionary obstetrics.

EMPH eou025 doi:10.1093/emph/eou025 first published online November 11, 2014 (1 pages)
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Original Research Article:

  • C. Athena Aktipis,
  • Bruce J. Ellis,
  • Katherine K. Nishimura,
  • and Robert A. Hiatt

Modern reproductive patterns associated with estrogen receptor positive but not negative breast cancer susceptibility

EMPH eou028 doi:10.1093/emph/eou028 first published online November 10, 2014 (21 pages)

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It has long been accepted that modern reproductive patterns are likely contributors to breast cancer susceptibility because of their influence on hormones such as estrogen and the importance of these hormones in breast cancer. We found that modern reproductive patterns of later age of first birth and lower parity were associated with ER-positive but not ER-negative breast cancer. Thus, the evolutionary mismatch hypothesis for breast cancer can account for ER-positive breast cancer susceptibility but not ER-negative breast cancer.

  • Mark M. Tanaka,
  • Benjamin M. Althouse,
  • and Carl T. Bergstrom

Timing of antimicrobial use influences the evolution of antimicrobial resistance during disease epidemics

EMPH eou027 doi:10.1093/emph/eou027 first published online November 5, 2014 (23 pages)

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How can antimicrobial drugs be deployed optimally during infectious disease epidemics? Our mathematical models show it is optimal to delay treatment to maximize successful treatments. In formulating policy, however, this must be balanced against the risk of incorrectly predicting the peak of an epidemic.

Clinical Brief:

  • Joe Alcock and
  • Edmund K. LeGrand

Anorexia

EMPH eou026 doi:10.1093/emph/eou026 first published online November 5, 2014 (1 pages)

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