Articles tagged: Juliana Keeping
Banners flying over Michigan Stadium part of campaign to raise awareness of neighborhood pesticides
Posted: Oct 29, 2011Football fans who look in the sky Saturday before the Wolverine’s showdown with Purdue may catch a glimpse of a banner that’s a little different from the birthday wishes and car dealership ads typically flown ... Read more »
Ecology Center: Halloween face paint tainted with heavy metals
Posted: Oct 26, 2011Midkhat Izmaylov | Dreamstime.com Moms and dads gearing up to turn their kids into vampires and goblins might want to think twice: There’s scary stuff in some Halloween face paint, according to HealthyStuff.org, a project ... Read more »
Survey: 60 percent of Washtenaw County residents are obese or overweight
Posted: Oct 25, 2011New county data show 60 percent of Washtenaw County residents are obese or overweight, compared with about half of residents five years ago, according to the Washtenaw County Public Health Department. New county data show ... Read more »
CBS Detroit: Michigan, northern Ohio doctors to share electronic records in effort to reduce errors
Posted: Oct 24, 2011In a move expected to limit medical errors and redundant tests, doctors at practices across Michigan and northern Ohio will begin to share electronic records. Read more »
Nurses, University of Michigan reach tentative agreement on contract
Posted: Oct 21, 2011The agreement would affect 4,000 employees at University Hospitals who have been working without a contract for several months. Read more »
Workplace safety officials have investigated Library Lot project twice following incidents
Posted: Oct 19, 2011Inspectors from the Michigan Occupational Safety and Health Administration have twice investigated the underground parking structure construction site in downtown Ann Arbor following incidents there, records show. Read more »
U-M moves opening date for C.S. Mott Children's Hospital back to Dec. 4
Posted: Oct 18, 2011The new C.S. Mott Children’s and Von Voigtlander Women’s Hospital will open Dec. 4 - three weeks later than planned - to give faculty and staff more time to familiarize themselves with the 1.1-million-square-foot facility ... Read more »
Ypsilanti hosts statewide summit to prioritize lowering Michigan's infant mortality rate
Posted: Oct 17, 2011In Michigan, eight of every 1,000 babies will die before their first birthday. Read more »
Gov. Rick Snyder: State should invest in biomedical research
Posted: Oct 14, 2011Angela J. Cesere | AnnArbor.com Gov. Rick Snyder said today he wants the state to make sustained investment in biomedical research that will boost the economy in the long term and push forward new medical ... Read more »
University of Michigan announces $100,000 science prize funded by billionaire A. Alfred Taubman
Posted: Oct 14, 2011Billionaire A. Alfred Taubman will fund a $100,000 science prize — a carrot meant to lure the most talented “clinician-scientists” in the world to the University of Michigan, the university announced today. Read more »
U-M's medical research institute reaches milestone
Posted: Oct 13, 2011The 16 doctor-scientists in U-M's A. Alfred Taubman Medical Research Institute help the institute fight a common research pitfall: The fact that discoveries made in the lab often stay there, its director says. Read more »
Rick Snyder to discuss impact of biomedical research on economy at U-M event
Posted: Oct 13, 2011Gov. Rick Snyder will discuss the interplay between biomedical research and the state’s economy at a symposium Friday at the University of Michigan, where annual research spending hit nearly $1.25 billion last academic year. Read more »
University of Michigan nurses to march through Ann Arbor today
Posted: Oct 12, 2011The protest marks the second march and picket for the 4,000-member union during a contested bargaining process stretching into its seventh month. Do you support the effort? Read more »
Major improvements to Mallets Creek shoreline under way along Washtenaw Avenue
Posted: Oct 12, 2011Improvements under way along the banks of the Huron River’s largest tributary should help mitigate problems downstream - like algae blooms in Ford Lake, experts say. Read more »
Rescue crews return to Jenny's Dexter Market when child falls from pony
Posted: Oct 10, 2011Rescue crews returned to Jenny's Dexter Market on Sunday after receiving a report that a child had been thrown from a horse. Owner Burton Hoey said the 22-month-old actually fell off a pony. Read more »
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