Video games like Wii Sports and Dance Dance Revolution can play an important role in getting kids off the couch and involved in physical activity. But U-M fitness experts say they are not a replacement for traditional exercise, and burn few calories.
The University of Maryland is going green like never before, as it races against time and 400+ other colleges and universities to see who can recycle the most.
With a four-year, $707,000 grant from the American Cancer Society, Yanchang Wang, assistant professor of biomedical sciences in the Florida State University College of Medicine, hopes to learn how a particular enzyme could possibly help put the brakes on the runaway cell division process that occurs in many forms of cancer.
Although it's too soon to sound the death knell for the "senior moment," it appears that memory loss and thinking problems are becoming less common among older Americans. A new nationally representative study shows a downward trend in the rate of cognitive impairment among people aged 70 and older.
Nanotechnology researchers are developing the perfect complement to the power tie: a "power shirt" able to generate electricity to power small electronic devices for soldiers in the field, hikers and others whose physical motion could be harnessed and converted to electrical energy.
Nearly 70 million Americans use discount generic prescription drug programs offered at major retail stores across the country. But the C.S. Mott Children's Hospital National Poll on Children's Health finds it's not just the millions of uninsured U.S. adults and children who are taking advantage of lower-price prescription generic drugs.
A new study from U-M C.S. Mott Children's Hospital finds that using risk factors "“ including a woman's sexual history - to target specific populations for HPV vaccination is not effective, and would exclude as many as 80 percent of women who could benefit the most from the vaccine.
Researchers have found that a particular gene is central to the brain cancer glioblastoma and will either fight the tumor or, conversely, help the tumor advance, depending on the tumor's genetic makeup.
A new guideline developed by the American Academy of Neurology finds certain neurology patients are at a high risk of accidental falls and should be regularly screened to help prevent the high number of fall-related injuries and deaths in the United States each year. The guideline is published in the February 5, 2008, issue of Neurology.
Millions of kids today may face heart disease in the future, especially if heart disease runs in the family. But University of Michigan Cardiovascular Center experts say parents can act now to change their children's diet and exercise regime to put them on a better path to a healthy heart.
What you eat can have huge impact on your heart health. That's why it's important to read labels before putting food in your grocery cart. To help, a University of Michigan nutrition expert offer tips on what to look for on food packages to ensure you're buying heart-healthy items.
"The ruling to kill the Americans and their allies -- civilians and military -- is an individual duty for every Muslim who can do it in any country in which it is possible to do it . . . ."
If politics were like high school, Republicans would be the football stars and Democrats would be chess club captains. Those stereotypes are the easiest way to summarize part of the conclusions made by a marketing professor at the Olin Business School at Washington University in St. Louis.
A multi-center research project to investigate severe asthma has found a key physiological difference between severe and non-severe forms of the disease, a finding that could help explain why those with severe asthma do not respond well to treatment.
The University of Maryland is home to a unique collection of materials from Post World War II Japan. Famed author and beloved Professor Gordon W. Prange saved the four year collection of books, magazine, newspapers, children's works and more from sure destruction. After many years, the Collection now has a new, modern home in Maryland's Hornbake Library.
A new report by the University of Michigan C.S. Mott Children's Hospital National Poll on Children's Health finds parents with adolescents want doctors to do more than just check blood pressure during routine check-ups. Parents also want health care providers to talk with their kids about sex, diet, drug abuse and tobacco use.
Scientists at JILA, a joint institute of the National Institute of Standards and Technology and the University of Colorado, have found one possible way to solve the problem of "blinking" quantum dots. The advance could make quantum dots more sensitive in biomedical tests and steadier sources of single photons for "unbreakable" quantum encryption.
A report released today by the U-M C.S. Mott Children's Hospital National Poll on Children's Health finds flu vaccination rates among young children and high-risk adults are much lower than expected across the country, leaving millions of Americans unprotected should a major flu outbreak occur.
Two theoretical physicists at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute have uncovered what they believe is the long-sought-after pathway that an HIV peptide takes to enter healthy cells. The theorists analyzed two years of biocomputation and simulation to uncover a surprisingly simple mechanism describing how this protein fragment penetrates the cell membrane.
About 5,000 people around the world die from tuberculosis every day, but no effective new drugs have been developed to combat it in 40 years. Researchers at the National High Magnetic Field Laboratory at Florida State University hope to change that through research made possible by a $2-million grant from the National Institutes of Health.
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