Articles tagged:Juliana Keeping

Posted: Sat Oct 29 5:56 a.m. by Juliana Keeping AnnArbor.com Health & Environment Reporter
Banners flying over Michigan Stadium part of campaign to raise awareness of neighborhood pesticides

Football 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 over the home game crowd.

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Posted: Wed Oct 26 8:45 a.m. by Juliana Keeping AnnArbor.com Health & Environment Reporter
Ecology Center: Halloween face paint tainted with heavy metals

Midkhat 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 of Ann Arbor-based Ecology Center.

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Posted: Tue Oct 25 5:56 a.m. by Juliana Keeping AnnArbor.com Health & Environment Reporter
Survey: 60 percent of Washtenaw County residents are obese or overweight

New 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 60 percent of Washtenaw County residents are obese or overweight, compared with about half of ...

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Posted: Mon Oct 24 10:36 a.m. by Juliana Keeping AnnArbor.com Health & Environment Reporter
Michigan, northern Ohio doctors to share electronic records in effort to reduce errors

In a move expected to limit medical errors and redundant tests, doctors at practices across Michigan and northern Ohio will begin to share electronic records.

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Posted: Fri Oct 21 1:03 p.m. by Juliana Keeping AnnArbor.com Health & Environment Reporter
Nurses, University of Michigan reach tentative agreement on contract

The agreement would affect 4,000 employees at University Hospitals who have been working without a contract for several months.

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Posted: Wed Oct 19 2:12 p.m. by Juliana Keeping AnnArbor.com Health & Environment Reporter
Workplace safety officials have investigated Library Lot project twice following incidents

Inspectors 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.

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Posted: Tue Oct 18 4:44 p.m. by Juliana Keeping AnnArbor.com Health & Environment Reporter
U-M moves opening date for C.S. Mott Children's Hospital back to Dec. 4

The 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 in Ann Arbor.

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Posted: Mon Oct 17 9:55 a.m. by Juliana Keeping AnnArbor.com Health & Environment Reporter

In Michigan, eight of every 1,000 babies will die before their first birthday.

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Posted: Fri Oct 14 2:32 p.m. by Juliana Keeping AnnArbor.com Health & Environment Reporter
Gov. Rick Snyder: State should invest in biomedical research

Angela 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 discoveries.

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Posted: Fri Oct 14 12:50 p.m. by Juliana Keeping AnnArbor.com Health & Environment Reporter
University of Michigan announces $100,000 science prize funded by billionaire A. Alfred Taubman

Billionaire 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.

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Posted: Thu Oct 13 2:59 p.m. by Juliana Keeping AnnArbor.com Health & Environment Reporter
U-M's medical research institute reaches milestone

The 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.

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Posted: Thu Oct 13 12:21 p.m. by Juliana Keeping AnnArbor.com Health & Environment Reporter

Gov. 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.

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Posted: Wed Oct 12 1:38 p.m. by Juliana Keeping AnnArbor.com Health & Environment Reporter
University of Michigan nurses to march through Ann Arbor today

The 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?

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Posted: Wed Oct 12 10:55 a.m. by Juliana Keeping AnnArbor.com Health & Environment Reporter
Major improvements to Mallets Creek shoreline under way along Washtenaw Avenue

Improvements 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.

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Posted: Mon Oct 10 11:40 a.m. by Juliana Keeping AnnArbor.com Health & Environment Reporter
Rescue crews return to Jenny's Dexter Market when child falls from pony

Rescue 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.

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