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The branch of medical science that deals with the study of incidence, distribution and control of a disease in a population. Epidemiology is the measure of how frequently diseases occur in specific groups of people and why? Epidemiological data is used to develop and evaluate approaches to prevent illness and as a blueprint to relevant carers of patients in whom a disease has already progressed.
See also:
Endemic
Patent, Meta analysis, Single-blind trial, Screening trials, Toxicity, Product pipeline, Prescription only medicine (POM), Diagnostic trials, Efficacy, Committee for Medicinal Products for Human Use (CHMP), Disease awareness marketing, Clinical, Double-blind trial, Chronic disease, Interventions - clinical,
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