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The U.S. opioid epidemic is still raging – it’s particularly pronounced in low-income areas and in those where people lack access to health care services, which includes cities in Michigan and across the Rust Belt. But…
The objective of this yearlong, three-phase event is for teams to create impactful and adaptable solutions to mobility challenges, with applications in transportation as well as community health and planning.
There were lots of germs in the cloudy liquid Rebecca Ives collected from a sewer line running through Michigan State University's campus. She was hunting for just one: the coronavirus.
Renowned virologist Nathan Wolfe, who for years warned of the potential for a global pandemic, has another message for a world in the grips of COVID-19: It will happen again — and institutions better be prepared.
Bruno Giordani, Ph.D., has long-known the strength of Michigan-based Alzheimer’s and dementia research.
Like many universities and organizations during the early days of the COVID-19 pandemic, the institutions that make up Michigan’s University Research Corridor (URC) — Michigan State University, the...
Intraoperative hemorrhage — colloquially known as “bleeding out” — is a leading cause of death in operating rooms around the world.
While Michigan’s stay-at-home order has halted much of Wayne State’s research activity, some studies have seen little interruption. And, in the Department of Physics and Astronomy observatory...
In the midst of the COVID-19 pandemic, Street Medicine Detroit, a student-led organization committed to serving the unreached homeless population of Detroit, has built a series of Field Hand-Washing St...
Governors across the United States are anxious to reopen their struggling economies. However, because COVID-19 has not disappeared, testing remains limited and a vaccine is at least months away, reopeni...