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October 28, 2025
Steven Soliman, clinical associate professor of radiology, and colleagues are exploring “point-of-care” ultrasound as a noninvasive tool to detect diabetes risk: “We envision this in the future to be something that could be done at a local grocery store, pharmacy, school physicals, urgent care, ER visits or primary care visits during vital signs.”
WDIV/Detroit -
October 28, 2025
A proposed Michigan law would strengthen penalties for human trafficking and allow the state to take away children from parents convicted of that crime. But Elizabeth Campbell, co-director of the Law School’s Human Trafficking and Immigration Clinic, says the system routinely mislabels victims as traffickers. “I believe this provision will be harmful to survivors, as they are all too frequently arrested and prosecuted. So in addition to being criminalized, they now risk losing their children,” she said.
MLive -
October 28, 2025
A lawsuit seeking to force the swearing in of U.S. Rep.-elect Adelita Grijalva of Arizona will have “very little” impact on whether House Speaker Mike Johnson’s swearing-in timeline will shorten, said Christian Fong, assistant professor of political science: “This is the usual litigiousness that characterizes the relationship between Republicans and Democrats when it comes to elections.”
U.S. News & World Report -
October 27, 2025
Research by Alisa Likhitsup, assistant professor of gastroenterology, found that 15.6 million Americans take compounds known to be potentially toxic to the liver, such as turmeric, ashwagandha and green tea extract: “It’s more common now to see some severe cases of liver injury end up in the hospital, or … addressed with a liver transplant.” Robert Fontana, professor of gastroenterology, said “there’s something like 100,000 herbal and dietary supplements out there. Most of them don’t cause harm that we know of … but none of these things are tested or validated or regulated.”
The Guardian (U.K.) -
October 27, 2025
“At every stage of the process — downloading the data, storing the data, filtering, then with outputs, at every stage there is possible infringement. The question is if they’re doing it for the machine to learn or to generate outputs,” said Matt Blaszczyk, research fellow at the Law School, on tech companies’ use of copyrighted material from Hollywood studios and other creative work to train models to build AI products.
Business Insider -
October 27, 2025
“The ed-tech landscape is experiencing a dangerous shift away from educator expertise toward an AI-driven, technology-first approach to digital innovation, ignoring designs for learning that are based on what we know about how people learn,” wrote Rebecca Quintana, clinical associate professor of education. “We need research-based solutions, not venture capital experiments that are no more effective than throwing spaghetti at the wall to see what sticks.”
Inside Higher Ed -
October 24, 2025
“Frequency of intake is as important if not more important than amount of intake,” said Purnima Kumar, professor of dentistry, noting that it’s better to eat sweets all at one time rather than throughout the day to reduce the effects of sugar on teeth. “If you have to eat sweets, then make sure you brush and you remove all vestiges of it from all the different crevices in your teeth that (the sugar) can sit on and stay on.”
The Scientist -
October 24, 2025
Michigan’s new state budget will limit coverage of a group of weight-loss drugs for most Medicaid patients. “It’s this amazing clinical breakthrough, particularly for patient populations that I worry about, who are most impacted by obesity-related conditions like diabetes and obesity-related cancers and heart disease. These are folks that tend to be left behind,” said Mark Fendrick, director of the U-M Center for Value-Based Insurance Design.
Bridge Michigan -
October 24, 2025
Fewer than 1 in 10 parents say their toddler or preschooler plays outside once a week or less, and 3 in 5 parents say their child watches TV or videos every day, said Sarah Clark, co-director of the Mott Children’s Hospital National Poll on Children’s Health: “Play is the key to how young children learn and develop. Our report suggests that many families could support healthier development by encouraging a wider variety of play experiences.”
MLive -
October 23, 2025
“There is no silver bullet chronic pain medication, pretty much for anything. It’s often like, ‘Oh, I got a little benefit here and a little there.’ You’re kind of piecing together the puzzle,” said Kevin Boehnke, assistant professor of anesthesiology, noting that “many people deliberately use cannabis in place of opioids” because they find it more effective and with fewer side effects.
National Public Radio
