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According to the latest State of the State Survey, Michiganders are more positive about their personal finances than they’ve been in nearly two decades, but their feelings about President Donald Trump aren’t quite as…
High levels of noise exposure is one of the most common occupational hazards in the United States and continues to be a pervasive health threat to workers. According to the National Institute for Occupational Safety and…
Michigan State University and Stanford University scientists have invented a nanoparticle that eats away – from the inside out – portions of plaques that cause heart attacks. Bryan Smith, associate professor of…
The CDC estimates that at least 6.4 million people have caught the flu, resulting in 55,000 hospitalizations and 2,900 deaths already this season. Though the flu vaccine can reduce the chances of infection at best, it’s…
A new collaborative study published by a research team from the Wayne State University School of Medicine, the CReATe Fertility Centre and the University of Massachusetts Amherst provides the first in-depth look at the…
Children around the world born with clubfoot have a new champion in Ahmad Hasan, a third-year medical student at the Wayne State University School of Medicine. Hasan is the driving force behind The Little Feet Club, a…
Hypoxic-Ischemic brain injury (HII) is a severe injury caused by oxygen deprivation to the brain at or near time of birth in preterm or low birth weight newborns. It is very important to recognize HII as soon as possible…
A doctor diagnosing a 50-year-old patient based on a blood test taken during the patient’s infancy would be unthinkable. Anecdotally speaking, however, that’s what Michigan State University scientists have done with…
While not particularly “rare” in terms of prevalence, rare earth elements are not found in large concentrations and are difficult to separate and purify. However, one source of REEs that has gained interest in the last…
The National Institute on Drug Abuse reports that 2,033 people in Michigan died of overdose deaths involving opioids in 2017, a rate of 21.2 deaths per 100,000 persons, higher than the national rate of 14.6 deaths per…