My friend Kristen asked me to write about some salad ideas for this week’s creATE entry. I have to admit that in the winter I don’t eat that much salad. Living in the Midwest makes eating salad in the months after the first frost until April or so a particular ...
Here's a look at some of the top health news being talked about around the U.S. and the world today: • Crews in the U.S. continue to scramble to get health supplies to Haiti as aid continues to pour into - and reportedly bottleneck - Haiti following last week's earthquake. ...
Thank you, Stuart, a friend and creATE reader, for suggesting that I discuss the omega-3 fatty acids, and consequently, the larger subject of fat this week. Fat is probably one of the most controversial topics in the nutritional field, and for good reason. Consuming the correct amount of fat can ...
University of Michigan Health System CEO Ora Pescovitz will talk about the role health care is playing in the local economy at a business breakfast next month. The event, which will be held Feb. 4, will focus on how the health care industry has become an economic driver locally. Roger Newton, ...
The general public largely seems to favor requirements that health care workers receive the vaccination for the swine - or H1N1 - flu virus once the vaccine becomes available, according to a University of Michigan poll released today. In the C.S. Mott Children’s Hospital National Poll On Children’s Health, respondents ...
The University of Michigan Health Service is seeing a spike in flu-related visits from university students as public health officials track the possible transmission of the swine flu, officials say. On average, the service was seeing about 40 to 50 students a day over the past week who had flu-like ...
Black patients receive worse cardiac care and have lower chances of surviving a cardiac arrest in the hospital compared to white patients, a recent study completed by a University of Michigan researcher found. Much of the difference is attributed to poor-performing hospitals where black patients are more likely to receive ...
Laura Lin Gosbee has never been the kind of woman who likes to wear makeup. If she needed to, the 38-year-old Ann Arbor resident would just fuss with her hair to spruce up her appearance. But that's no longer an option after four treatments of chemotherapy for breast cancer, said ...
Training more local residents in identifying individuals at-risk of contemplating suicide and having better mental health screenings could help prevent more suicides in Washtenaw County, according to a plan released Monday. Rolling out a Suicide Prevention Plan for Washtenaw County, officials from a coalition called Washtenaw Alive said they were ...
Ann Arbor researchers believe they may have found an improved way of treating burn wounds using a lotion made with nanotechnology in preclinical studies. In animal studies, researchers from NanoBio Corp. and the University of Michigan found using the lotion reduced the severity of burn wound infection and inflammation.
As we go about our day, our body and soul acts like a microfiber cloth, picking up energetic residues of others. We can get filled up with ideas for what other people should be doing, worry about people we care about, come up with fixes for the ills of society. ...
Air pollution isn't just bad for your lungs, but it can be bad for your heart, too, according to a recent study.A recent University of Michigan study found air pollution has a direct negative impact on blood pressure and can trigger cardiovascular events, like heart attacks, in people with cardiovascular ...
Getting your seasonal flu shot this year will be as easy as picking up fast food. A number of local drive-through flu shot clinics are offering vaccines this fall. The clinics will have the vaccine for the expected seasonal flu strain - but not the vaccine for the H1N1 flu ...
When University of Michigan researchers began tinkering with a gene in obese mice, they were only looking for a way to eliminate the risk of diabetes in those mice. What they ended up finding was a “fat” gene that kept the mice — who were eating high-fat diets — from ...
The family member or friend that a newly diagnosed breast cancer patient brings with her - not what she’s being told by a surgeon - may play a bigger role in the kind of surgery she ends up choosing, a newly published University of Michigan study found. Researchers from U-M’s ...
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