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October 30, 2025
“Light is the most important cue to your internal biological clock, and with standard time, you get light exposure in the morning, and that cues your body up for wakefulness, and then you get less light in the evening, which signals to your body to prepare for rest by producing melatonin. Standard Time, also for the sleep deprived individual, is better because it allows for an opportunity for one extra hour of sleep,” said Mehwish Sajid, clinical instructor in neurology and family medicine.
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October 30, 2025
“There is simply no legal requirement to turn the stress test into an open-book exam where banks get to help pick the questions. This is a policy choice, and a bad one at that,” said Jeremy Kress, associate professor of business law, on the Federal Reserve’s plan to overhaul its stress test — designed to gauge how lenders would hold up during a hypothetical recession — and give Wall Street lenders an early look at the criteria for upcoming tests.
Bloomberg -
October 29, 2025
The Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program is “the most effective strategy we have to reduce poverty for children and families,” and a pause in benefits will have far-reaching effects, said Kate Bauer, associate professor of nutritional sciences. “SNAP is really an economic infusion for communities, because where do those SNAP dollars get spent? They get spent, mostly, at local retailers, local food stores, local grocers,” said Jennifer Garner, assistant professor of nutritional sciences.
Detroit Free Press -
October 29, 2025
“Maybe they’re going to shift some of the money they spend on rent to food. So for some families, it’s going to show up as them falling behind on their rent. If it goes for a long time, I think we might see an increase in evictions. It’s going to ripple through whole communities,” said Luke Shaefer, faculty director of Poverty Solutions and professor of public policy and social work, about a prolonged shutdown of the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program.
CBS News Detroit -
October 29, 2025
“It takes away an important right from women of reproductive age that other adults with capacity in the state of Michigan have,” said Kayte Spector-Bagdady, associate professor of obstetrics and gynecology, about a Michigan law that nullifies advance directives for pregnant patients or otherwise restricts their ability to refuse life-sustaining treatment.
The Washington Post -
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.
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