School of Public Health
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March 31, 2014
U-M, local leaders prepare for growing ‘zombie invasion’
Last year, they took over the School of Public Health. This Saturday, zombies are expected to terrorize Washtenaw County during a unique disaster preparedness exercise.
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March 10, 2014
Students tackle public health problems in SPH innovation competition
Eleven student innovations involving public health will be narrowed to five for participation in Innovation in Action, a student competition on Friday.
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February 20, 2014
Multidisciplinary team awarded NIH grant to track kidney disease
The U-M Kidney Epidemiology and Cost Center will receive a $8.5 million federal contract to serve as the coordinating center for the United States Renal Data System.
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February 18, 2014
School of Public Health, Detroit partners aim to improve city’s air quality
The School of Public Health, in partnership with several community groups in Detroit, received a new five-year, $2.8 million grant to combat air pollution and related health risks.
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February 7, 2014
How states can encourage Web-based health care in hospitals
In the first national look at how broadly Web-based technologies are being used to provide health care, a University of Michigan researcher has found that 42 percent of U.S. hospitals use some type of “telehealth” approach.
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February 7, 2014
Vitamin A deficiency associated with more frequent childhood illness
School-age children with vitamin A deficiencies are more likely to get gastrointestinal and respiratory illnesses, a new study shows.
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February 6, 2014
Women’s equality is good for men’s health, research shows
In societies where women are equal to men, males stand a better chance of living longer, according to a new study led by a researcher from the School of Public Health.
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February 3, 2014
Liver tumors found in mice exposed to BPA
In one of the first studies to show a significant association between BPA and cancer development, University of Michigan School of Public Health researchers have found liver tumors in mice exposed to the chemical via their mothers during gestation and nursing.
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January 31, 2014
Florida health care project delivers cost savings, insights for emerging reform models
A Medicaid demonstration program analysis, to measure cost savings of provider service networks in Florida, could give a glimpse into the likely success of Affordable Care Act programs that aim to reduce health care expenditures, according to research from the University of Michigan School of Public Health and the University of Florida.
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January 8, 2014
Millions of lives saved since surgeon general’s 1964 tobacco warning
An estimated 8 million lives have been saved in the United States as a result of smoking measures that began 50 years ago this month, according to a Yale-led study co-authored by three U-M School of Public Health researchers.
