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Dementia rates are going down. That’s even though dementia risk factors like diabetes are rising. What’s behind the decline in dementia? Dr. Ken Langa ,...
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Get to work, grab a cup of coffee, turn on the computer … and sit down to start the business of the day. And there you stay: sitting and sitting and...
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October is Breast Cancer Awareness Month. Each and every year, more than 230,000 American women will hear the words, “You have breast cancer.” Of those...
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It has been a year now since Michigan and the world learned that the lead levels of children living in areas of Flint has doubled, even tripled. It was...
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The Next Idea Could the ancient search for the Fountain of Youth lead to Ann Arbor? That's where a company called Forever Labs is working to solve the...
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So many people spend their days sitting – and sitting a lot. People who work desk jobs might spend a minimum of eight hours a day sitting hunched over...
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The Healthy Michigan Plan launched in April 2014. It opened the Medicaid rolls to hundreds of thousands of low-income people for the first time. And no...
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The wetter the summer, the more mosquitos you’re likely to find outside. In hot, dry summers, like the summer we are having now, there are fewer...
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The Flint water crisis has taken a new turn, with Governor Snyder's announcement that there's been an outbreak of Legionnaires' disease in Flint....
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This week marks the 45th anniversary of Dr. Alice Hamilton’s death. Hamilton was a leading expert in the field of occupational health and a pioneer in...