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A team of researchers from Wayne State University and Children’s Hospital of Michigan, has been awarded a five-year, $5.76 million grant from the National Institutes of Health to study how febrile infants – babies 2 months or younger who are brought to emergency rooms with invasive bacterial infections – can avoid invasive procedures such as lumbar punctures, overuse of antibiotics and unnecessary hospitalizations through a new, rapid and more accurate testing to be developed by the research team.

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When an older person gets hospitalized for pneumonia, where’s the best place to care for them? New research findings about deaths and health care costs in such patients fly in the face of conventional wisdom – and could change where doctors decide to treat them.

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Cyberbullying? 1 in 5 parents say students who post online rumors about sex should be referred to police.

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Long-term durability is a major issue for today’s infrastructure. In order to create concrete bridges with longer service lives and better performance, we must better understand the long-term behavior of these members.

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A first draft of the “tree of life” for the roughly 2.3 million named species of animals, plants, fungi and microbes has been released, and two University of Michigan biologists played a key role in its creation.

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4th Annual Autoimmune Walk in Manhattan brings together patients, families, advocates and others for a Walk to honor and support loved ones with autoimmune diseases, and to help raise awareness and research funding for a cure.

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Parkinson’s patients often become sedentary because of motor symptoms such as gait, balance problems or falls. However, new U-M research finds that non-exercise physical activity, more than occasional trips to the gym, is linked to less severe motor symptoms.

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A research team led by Michigan Technological University chemist Xiaohu Xia has developed a catalyst that improves the sensitivity of the standard PSA test over 100-fold. The new catalyst mimics the action of biochemicals found in nature, called peroxidases.

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Researchers at the University of Michigan have been awarded a three-year, $3 million grant from the Erb Family Foundation to determine the Detroit River's contributions to algae blooms that plague Lake Erie each summer.

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UM Transplant Center program is first of its kind in Michigan

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Beaumont Hospital – Royal Oak urologists are studying the safety and potential effectiveness of a treatment for male stress urinary incontinence, using a man’s own muscle cells. The goal of the study is to strengthen the muscles controlling urination and control leakage after prostate cancer surgery.

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In two leading global markets, China and India, both these markets are exhibiting compelling medical acceptance of the Pressure Right disposable wrist strip as a new preventive remedy. It targets and blocks the occurrences of nausea and/or vomiting without the use of drugs.

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More than a billion times a year, American hospital patients get tiny tubes inserted into their veins to deliver medicine and more. But these devices carry risks as well as benefits. A new research-based guide shows which kind of device gives each patient the best and safest result.

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Science can be expensive. But making customized scientific equipment doesn’t have to be. Researchers at Michigan Technological University have compiled economic data on the effectiveness of open source hardware in the laboratory—and the process looks promising.

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Less than a quarter of car seat and booster checks analyzed were conducted in children ages four and older.

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Low. Down. Less than normal. That’s what the word depression means, and what people with depression often feel like. But sometimes, depression can mean too much of something – as new research shows.

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A research team led by Kezhong Zhang, Ph.D., at the Wayne State University School of Medicine’s Center for Molecular Medicine and Genetics, has discovered that exposure to air pollution has a direct adverse health effect on the liver and causes liver fibrosis, an illness associated with metabolic disease and liver cancer.

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Studies using yeast genetics have provided new, fundamental insights into the cell-division cycle, researchers at the University of Michigan Life Sciences Institute report.

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For children with rare, aggressive and advanced cancer, precision medicine may help doctors determine their best treatment options, a new study finds. Using information from a patient’s entire genome helped suggest personalized treatment options for nearly half of children with cancer, and led to specific treatment changes in a quarter of these patients.

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Daily marijuana use among the nation's college students is on the rise, surpassing daily cigarette smoking for the first time in 2014.

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Farmington Hills, MI - Every day we are impacted by recycled materials. We dry our hands with recycled paper towels, drink our coffee from recycled paper cups, and even drink our water from recycled plastic bottles. But what about building materials?

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The milkweed plants growing in 40 cube-shaped chambers on a hilltop at the University of Michigan Biological Station provide a glimpse into the future that allows researchers to ask a question: How will monarch butterflies fare?

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Concerns about fertility kept a third of young women with breast cancer from taking tamoxifen, despite its known benefit in reducing the risk of breast cancer coming back.

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Michigan Tech researchers have streamlined a method to improve the splitting water into hydrogen molecules using visible light. Their work paves the way for more sustainable hydrogen fuels.

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The number of hepatitis C patients suffering from advanced liver damage may be grossly underestimated and underdiagnosed, according to a study led by researchers at Henry Ford Health System and the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. The findings were the result of a study of nearly 10,000 patients suffering from hepatitis C, and could have a significant effect on patient care and healthcare policy regarding the chronic disease.

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Ken Peters, M.D., presented three papers at the International Neuromodulation Society’s 12th World Congress in Montreal. He and his team have had success in treating bladder issues and pelvic pain through a technique called neuromodulation. His presentations all addressed patient care issues.

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Monitors. Alarms. Pagers. People. Hospital noise can keep patients from getting a good night's sleep. Sound panels tested in the hallways of the University of Michigan Health System helped reduce noise around patient rooms.

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With every breath you take, microbes have a chance of making it into your lungs. But what happens when they get there? And why do dangerous lung infections like pneumonia happen in some people, but not others? Researchers have started to answer these questions by studying the microbiome of the lungs.

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Flames are not the only danger from wildfires. Burned areas are at risk for floods and landslides, which Michigan Tech researcher Mary Ellen Miller seeks to prevent.

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The nomination period for the $100,000 Taubman Prize for Excellence in Translational Medical Science is open, announced the A. Alfred Taubman Medical Research Institute at the University of Michigan.

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Electronic reminders at clinics helped boost rates of Tdap booster that protects against tetanus, diptheria, and whooping cough.

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Each of your kidneys wears a little yellow cap that helps keep blood pressure in check, and much more. But in some people, it starts running amok, pumping out a hormone that sends blood pressure sky-high. Why this happens is still a mystery. But new findings could help figure out what's going on.

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New campaign designed to reduce distracted teen driving.

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The Barbara Ann Karmanos Cancer Institute, in partnership with Wayne State University School of Medicine, is one of the lead academic centers participating in the National Cancer Institute's (NCI) MATCH (Molecular Analysis for Therapy Choice) Trial in the United States, set to begin in the next few weeks. Of the more than 2,000 National Cancer Trial Network or NCI Community Oncology Research Program sites participating in the MATCH Trial, only 30 are lead academic centers.

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Sexting and Internet safety climb higher on the public’s list of major health concerns for children across the U.S.

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While most of us worry about the fat cells building up on the fleshy parts of our bodies, scientists are paying serious attention to another kind of fat cell deep inside our bones, in the marrow. Today, they’ve published new important clues about it, including a discovery that there are two types.

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This little black box could change how we study one of the world's biggest water quality issues. Our Michigan Tech team joined up with the Nitrate Elimination Company to create this this new nitrate test kit.

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Researchers at Michigan Tech have combined two unlikely materials to make a digital switch that could improve high speed computing.

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Research finds an association between positive post-radiation therapy biopsy results and subsequent clinical outcomes in men with localized prostate cancer.

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The books moved out two years ago, and the construction crews moved in. And today, the University of Michigan’s Taubman Health Sciences Library reopens as a transformed space for learning, teaching and gathering.

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Luke Bowman, who received his PhD from Michigan Tech this summer, gets to the heart of geohazards on the San Vicente Volcano in El Salvador.

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This Sunday, 170 aspiring physicians will don the short white coats that tens of thousands of University of Michigan Medical School students before them have worn. But this class will experience medical school differently, because of a transformation of the school’s curriculum.

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Older Americans receive prescriptions for mental health drugs at more than twice the rate that younger adults do, but they’re much less likely to be getting their mental health care from a psychiatrist, a new study shows. Some seniors could be at risk of problems caused interactions between drugs.

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Carbon nanotube speakers play music using heat and two Michigan Tech graduate students received an award recently for their work improving the technology.