CAsToR webinar “Forecasting the Impact of a U.S. Nicotine Reduction Standard on People with Disabilities,” on April 14, presented by pilot project PI Dana Rubenstein, MD, MHS. Register: myumi.ch/D8j5x
Or if you'd prefer to link to the event page on the CAsToR site: tcors.umich.edu/Events_Upcom...
Learn how to apply computational modeling techniques to tobacco regulatory science in a one-week summer course taught by CAsToR instructors at the University of Michigan. Scholarships available! tcors.umich.edu/Resource_SSE...
CAsToR is hosting a webinar “Working with state & local tobacco legislative data: A primer” on Feb 12 with Dr. Abigail Friedman, Dr. Holly Jarman, and Lauren Tonti, JD, MPH. Register here: myumi.ch/qZ4WE
INTS core faculty member and assistant professor, Lauren Pacek, will discuss tobacco use and cessation and harm reduction strategies among people with HIV in the USA in the webinar hosted by the AETC Program on November 5, 11 am ET.
Register here ➡️
www.e2neca.org/org/AETC/Por...
Lung cancer is the leading cause of cancer-related mortality worldwide, causing approximately 1.8 million deaths in 2022.
📝 This Review discusses the epidemiology, diagnosis, treatment, and prognosis of lung cancer in nonsmoking individuals.
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A JAMA article titled "The Complexity of Research on Moderate Alcohol Consumption and Health: The Consensus Report From NASEM" by Ned Calonge et al., published online September 30, 2025.
💬 Perspective: The evaluation of moderate alcohol consumption on health is complex due to known harms of heavy drinking, potential benefits of low consumption, varying evidence quality, and biases.
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INTS Associate Professor, Jamie Tam, comments on a recent story about how the tobacco industry is fighting proposed nicotine cuts in its products.
Read more ➡️
news.bloomberglaw.com/health-law-a...
Two new preprints on multilevel HMMs! Time series data is now pervasive in psychology and new methods are needed to model the dynamics in such data. Hidden Markov Models (HHMs) are powerful models for dynamics in which a system is switching between a number of discrete states.
Please join us in welcoming our new faculty member, Rafael Meza, PhD! @rutgerscancer.bsky.social @rwjms.bsky.social Learn more about Dr. Meza here: www.linkedin.com/feed/update/...
CAsToR junior investigator and pilot project PI, Dr. Clinton Durney, describes his research project modeling social network influences on teenage nicotine use.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=cIBO...
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In this modeling study, biennial screening from ages 50 to 60, then annually, was estimated to maintain 96% of the deaths prevented by lung cancer screening while decreasing CT scans by 21%. ja.ma/45hXpt1
CAsToR is hosting a webinar "A COPD Natural History Simulation Model for Tobacco Regulation Evaluation: Policy Implications" with Dr. Luz Sanchez Romero on October 9. Register here: myumi.ch/9pqbJ
Linear predictor plot for three modelling approaches to analyse continuous variables in a case study of cerebrospinal fluid glucose and acute bacterial meningitis
This article provides an overview of the current state of handling continuous variables in healthcare research.
It discusses the potential limitations of assuming a linear relationship between independent and dependent variables
www.bmj.com/content/390/...
Worth a read. We need to move beyond arbitrary categorisation of continuous variables or assuming that associations are linear - and use more flexible modelling approaches to capture non-linear relationships.
www.bmj.com/content/390/...
CAsToR junior investigator and pilot project PI, Dr. Mona Issabakhsh, describes her project, “A Machine Learning Approach to Cluster Similar Flavors of Electronic Nicotine Delivery Systems,” sharing initial results and their implications for her research approach. www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zhh5...
IARC and American Cancer Society Launch The Cancer Atlas, Fourth Edition
oncodaily.com/blog/the-can...
#OncoDaily #Oncology #Cancer #Health #Medicine #MedEd #MedOnc #MedNews #IARC #ACS
CAsToR Pilot PI, Dr. Dae-Hee Han, shares his progress on his work that uses inverse probability weighting and machine learning to estimate the impact of oral nicotine product and inhaled tobacco product co-use on inhaled tobacco product use trajectories among youth. www.youtube.com/watch?v=8kaw...
Reducing Lung Cancer Mortality by Providing Smoking Cessation Support in the Lung Cancer Screening Setting: Missed Opportunities and Lessons Learned on Both Sides of the Atlantic - Journal of Thoracic Oncology www.jto.org/article/S155...
Dr. Nancy Jao gives an update on her CAsToR Pilot Project, “Impact of flavored e-cigarette use and nicotine metabolism on systemic inflammatory biomarkers of cardiovascular disease risk.” www.youtube.com/watch?v=g39-...
Modelling study by Victoria Salgado et al. indicates further tobacco control interventions in Argentina could considerably reduce premature deaths and years of life lost.
academic.oup.com/ntr/advance-...
RFK Jr. wants to Make America Healthy Again. But he's ignoring the country's leading cause of preventable deaths: smoking.
Out now April Let's talk #e-cigarettes podcast @jhb19.bsky.social & @drnlindson.bsky.social interview Steve Cook @umichsph.bsky.social CaSToR TCORS re probs using cross-sectional data to look at health effects of #vapes
Thanks @cancerresearchuk.org
Spotify & iTunes podcasts.ox.ac.uk/series/lets-...
There's still time to register! ⏰
2025 ESIL awardee, Dr. Julia Chen-Sankey, will deliver her lecture in the second of three NIH ODP Early Stage Investigator Lectures of 2025 on June 5 at 10 a.m. ET.
➡️ ow.ly/MLwI50VUboR
@rutgerssph.bsky.social
Meet CAsToR Postdoctoral Fellow and Pilot PI, Dr. Clinton Durney. Clinton uses computational modeling to understand tobacco use behaviors and potential policy impacts. For his pilot project, he is modeling the spread of tobacco use through adolescent social networks.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=JR_v...
“Cohort life expectancy in the South, especially among females, changed little for those born from 1900 to 2000. For several states in the West and Northeast, cohort life expectancy improved substantially, and Washington DC, exhibited the greatest improvement” #medsky jamanetwork.com/journals/jam...
792 smokers were randomized to (a) placebo (b) 6 weeks cytisinicline or (c) 12 weeks cytisinicline. % abstinent from smoking for weeks 9-24 (and CO<10ppm) was (a) 4.2% (b) 12.2% and (c) 20.5%. Cytisinicline is safe and effective for smoking cessation. pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/40257755/
Check out this new video recording of a primer on systematic reviews and evidence synthesis in TRS, facilitated by CAsToR investigators Drs. Hartmann-Boyce and Livingstone-Banks. www.youtube.com/watch?v=tAfd...
Why the FDA is right about Zyn. "It may seem like authorizing another nicotine product- especially one with its own youthful cultural cachet- is a risky decision. But when evaluating all the factors (e g 2.4% youth use after 10y), it actually makes sense." www.msnbc.com/opinion/msnb...
📢 #episky #mortality #opendata
Weekly death series #STMF revised and updated ☑️
Data 👉 mortality.org/Data/STMF
Check out our visualization toolkit to explore data on weekly mortality and #excessmortality across years and countries ⬇️
mpidr.shinyapps.io/stmortality/
