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September 30, 2019
“My patient should not have to have a bake sale to afford her insulin,” said A. Mark Fendrick, professor of internal medicine, and health management and policy, and director of U-M’s Center for Value-Based Insurance Design, on the high cost of health insurance and ever-rising premiums that have forced some Americans to drop coverage.
Bloomberg -
September 30, 2019
“It depends on what’s going on that day, but people are bringing in some of the issues into (therapy) sessions more than I can remember in a long time,” said Michelle Riba, professor of psychiatry, commenting on research that found the stress of ugly national politics has started to affect the emotional and physical health of many Americans.
U.S. News & World Report -
September 27, 2019
“The interaction between insecurity caused by rapid cultural change and economic insecurity drives the xenophobic reaction that brought Trump to power and is fueling similar reactions in other high-income countries. And the rise of the knowledge society is driving this polarization even farther,” said Ronald Inglehart, professor emeritus of political science.
The New York Times -
September 27, 2019
People with mental health issues get frustrated by expensive and time-consuming treatment regimens that don’t show immediate results, says Angela Beck, clinical assistant professor of health behavior and health education: “It’s, you know, ‘the providers are too far away,’ ‘I don’t find what I like,’ ‘it didn’t work for me before, so I’m not going back again.'”
MLive -
September 27, 2019
Eating large amounts of ultraprocessed foods may actually change brain circuitry in ways that increase sensitivity to food cues, says Kent Berridge, professor of psychology and neuroscience, who has shown this effect in rodents: ” … but my guess is that we aren’t going to find that it affects all of us in the same way. My guess is that in the case of obesity, we are going to find … there are different avenues to becoming obese depending on one’s genes.”
Scientific American -
September 26, 2019
Comments by Cynthia Chestek, associate professor of biomedical engineering, and of electrical engineering and computer science, were featured in a story about the viability of neural interface technology — brain implants — for medical uses, and perhaps eventually for nonmedical applications such as brain-controlled typing.
The Guardian (U.K.) -
September 26, 2019
Christopher Douglas, associate professor of economics at UM-Flint, says that middle class income is higher than it’s ever been, while at the same time consumer prices are lower now than they were in the 1950s and ’60s, the era that many would consider the golden age of the middle class: “Your middle-class income just goes a lot farther now compared to back then. … If you’re middle class, now is the time to be alive.”
MLive -
September 26, 2019
“The Constitution provides for impeachment in cases of ‘treason, bribery or other high crimes and misdemeanors,’” wrote Leah Litman, assistant professor of law. “Trump sought to use the extensive powers of his office to get a foreign government to open an investigation that would be damaging to a political rival. He also enlisted the assistance of his personal lawyer to help him in that endeavor. If that does not amount to a ‘high crime or misdemeanor,’ it is a fair question whether anything will.”
NBC News -
September 25, 2019
“Household consumption — food, housing, transportation, apparel and other personal services — is an important contributor to greenhouse gas emissions. Everything you eat or wear, or every time you drive, you add to the global total emissions. The typical American’s annual per capita carbon footprint is over five times the world per capita average,” wrote Morteza Taiebat, a doctoral student in environment and sustainability, and Ming Xu, associate professor of environment and sustainability, and civil and environmental engineering.
PBS NewsHour -
September 25, 2019
“People generally report higher levels of auditory and visual distraction in open workspaces. Of course, some people are able to focus better than others. For others, there’s distraction just because they see others moving around or gathering to talk or whatever,” said Greg Laurence, associate professor of management at UM-Flint, whose research shows that personalizing an open workspace can reduce the negative effects of working with little privacy.
NBC News
