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November 18, 2019
“Nurses are the primary sentinels of patient care, the clinicians in at the bedside 24 hours a day, seven days a week. They’re the ones in position to identify a problem and intervene, and the ones under pressure to not make a mistake as patient volumes get higher and higher and cases get more and more complex,” said Christopher Friese, professor of nursing, and health management and policy, and director of the Center for Improving Patient and Population Health.
Houston Chronicle -
November 15, 2019
“I’m stunned that they rolled over so quickly. I hope the much larger genetic testing companies (23andMe and AncestryDNA) would fight a warrant harder than GEDmatch has,” said Kayte Spector-Bagdady, assistant professor of obstetrics and gynecology, on a decision by a Florida state judge to allow police to search the entirety of the public genealogy website GEDmatch — home to the DNA profiles of more than a million Americans.
Science News -
November 15, 2019
“We’re beginning to see this tantalizing correlation between methane and oxygen for a good part of the Mars year. I think there’s something to it,” said Sushil Atreya, professor of climate and space sciences and engineering, whose research shows increased levels of methane and oxygen on Mars depending on the season.
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November 15, 2019
“When we look back, I think the morals and ethics will be pretty clear. There is an opportunity to say this is where we stand and what we represent. … That said, being on the right side of history is not always a winning strategy in the short term,” said Mara Cecilia Ostfeld, assistant professor of political science, whose research suggests the current racial realignment along party lines is akin to white voter flight from the Democratic Party after it championed the Civil Rights Act of 1964 and the Voting Rights Act of 1965.
Fortune -
November 14, 2019
David Michener, curator of the Matthaei Botanical Gardens and Nichols Arboretum, and Roland Kersten, assistant professor of medicinal chemistry, were interviewed about the medicinal garden at Matthaei-Nichols. Michener says the garden is arranged by human health issue rather than by horticultural needs of the plants, and Kersten plans to conduct research on plants there as a source of new chemicals to treat diseases. “I think there is a lot of potential to find new drugs from plants, Kersten said.
WEMU Radio -
November 14, 2019
Rick Neitzel, associate professor of environmental health sciences, says there’s evidence that 90 percent of people who live in urban environments are exposed to sound levels higher than an average of 70 decibels a day: “That suggests that a lot of people are going to have hearing loss. We often attribute that to age, but I’m going to argue that it’s just from unrecognized noise.”
CBC (Canada) -
November 14, 2019
Research by Douglas Arenberg, professor of internal medicine, and colleagues shows that only about 60 percent of lung cancer patients get recommended treatments like chemotherapy and radiation that are linked to better survival odds, and rates are even lower for black and elderly patients: “While these findings are very concerning … there may be good reasons why less intensive treatment is in fact medically appropriate.”
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November 13, 2019
“The collapse of the Berlin Wall meant enormous new opportunities to build broader markets and new democracies — but it also allowed for the establishment of illiberal regimes and Russia’s resurgent influence. As we are learning across the world, democracy is not an irrevocable achievement,” co-wrote Pauline Jones, professor of political science and director of the International Institute.
The Washington Post -
November 13, 2019
“The stars have to align — both the medical condition and the sentence the person is facing — for a person to even make this argument,” said Eve Brensike Primus, professor of law, commenting on a recent court case in Iowa in which a prisoner who briefly died before being revived argued that he had served his life sentence and should be freed.
The New York Times -
November 13, 2019
In research designed to give automakers and technology companies insight into how humans can better adapt to self-driving cars, Lionel Robert, associate professor of information, and colleagues found that there are three human personality traits that we want to see in our driverless cars: agreeableness, consciousness and emotional stability.
CNET
