In the News
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July 23, 2025
Chad Ellimoottil, associate professor of urology, said it’s difficult to determine whether partnerships between telehealth doctors and pharmaceutical companies are inappropriate or reflect better access for patients who need medications: “It’s hard to draw conclusions without access to the underlying data, which is part of the problem. There is a lack of transparency with direct-to-consumer telehealth.”
The Washington Post -
July 23, 2025
“We tell all our patients, ‘You should do some sort of walking program to keep that calf pump strong. The worst thing you can do is stand on your feet for long periods of time and allow the blood to pool,'” said Andrea Obi, associate professor of vascular surgery, about patients with chronic venous insufficiency, a circulatory condition in which the veins in the leg have difficulty returning blood back to the heart due to damaged valves.
ABC News -
July 23, 2025
“The renovation controversy is pretty clearly manufactured faux outrage to try to justify Powell’s for-cause removal. Even though it’s obviously pretextual, this is uncharted legal territory, and it’s anyone’s guess how a legal case involving the Fed chair would be decided,” said Jeremy Kress, associate professor of business law, on Donald Trump’s threats to remove Jerome Powell as chair of the Federal Reserve, accusing him of mismanaging a multibillion-dollar update to its Washington headquarters.
The New York Times -
July 16, 2025
“Misinformation is wildly disseminated, not only on social media, but unfortunately now by top government officials,” said Pamela Rockwell, clinical professor of family medicine, who believes that false or inaccurate information is the No. 1 reason why people aren’t getting vaccinated. “But the state of Michigan is holding firm to following evidence-based, strong data-supported recommendations to keep our kids and communities safe.”
The Detroit News -
July 16, 2025
“We’re really moving backwards on this issue. This would be something that Congress could very rapidly fix if they were motivated to do so,” said Betsy Fisher, lecturer of law, on the Trump administration’s rescission of protections for stateless people in the U.S., who are “vulnerable to being deported and experiencing … loss of community, connections, legal identity.”
CNN -
July 16, 2025
“Grocery stores who no longer get as much revenue from (food stamps) will cut back on staffing, hospitals without Medicaid may close or lay off health care workers. Those workers, in turn, will no longer spend as much at local restaurants, hardware stores, etc., prompting further job losses,” said Robert Manduca, assistant professor of sociology, about the toll President Trump’s tax and spending bill will have on local economies.
USA Today -
July 16, 2025
“Looking at the sports landscape of Detroit, there’s a gap, and it’s time for us to reinsert gender empowerment into the city,” said Ketra Armstrong, professor of sport management, about the return of women’s professional basketball to Detroit in 2029 — 20 years after the WNBA’s Detroit Shock relocated. “The team gave people good quality, excitement … a sense of belonging … and something to believe in, something that was larger than all of us.”
Michigan Public -
July 16, 2025
Emily Martin, professor of epidemiology, is concerned that the dismissal of the entire CDC panel of vaccine experts, and their replacement with known vaccine “skeptics” or outright opponents, puts America’s children at risk. “I worry what data they are going to use if they are not acknowledging the data that’s there and being generated. It is ready for them to review right now. This is an ongoing process that we’re always iterating on, every year, putting out vaccine data,” she said.
Salon -
July 9, 2025
“We can use this as a way to communicate that climate change is impacting the ecological systems and call for actions to mitigate climate change,” said Yiluan Song, fellow at the Michigan Institute for Data and AI in Society, whose study with Kai Zhu, associate professor of sustainability and environment and of ecology and evolutionary biology, found that seasonal allergies caused by mold and other fungi now start an average of three weeks earlier than 20 years ago nationwide.
Bridge Michigan -
July 9, 2025
Paolo Pasquariello, professor of finance, attributes the decline of the dollar — suffering its worst start to a year in more than five decades — to “the recent erratic policymaking by U.S. authorities.” He says U.S. Treasuries are no longer viewed as quite as safe an asset, meaning investors are less likely to “park their money during normal times and especially during times of distress.”
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