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Targets for diabetes would improve healthy lives, reduce deaths, and be cost effective. But they should not be for managing diabetes alone; they must include treating hypertension.
Une nouvelle étude chiffre les avantages – ou impacts – de chaque aliment pour la santé et l’environnement et montre comment de petits changements peuvent faire une différence significative.
Each dose of Pfizer has a long and complex path involving mixing, storage at temperatures colder than the South Pole and specific protocols that must be followed before it becomes a jab.
Ending the opioid epidemic requires addressing not only treatment gaps in addiction and overdose, but also inadequate pain management.
The Afghan military’s collapse was the collective result of individual soldiers making rational decisions based on what they expected their comrades to do.
People with weakened immune systems are at a high risk of severe and prolonged COVID-19 infections. An extra vaccine dose can bolster protection.
Lyme’s controversy offers four lessons on how parents, school districts, elected officials and scientists can find a path forward in the 2021-2022 school year.
A new study puts numbers to the health and environmental benefits – or impacts – of individual foods and shows how small changes can make a significant difference.
Gig work is entering almost every industry and changing the relationship between workers, employers, service providers and customers. But gig workers face new and unique challenges.
Four scholars who study the role witnesses play in helping and protecting harassers say the role played by many in Cuomo’s office fit a pattern of silence, complicity and intimidation.
A bipartisan group of senators said it reached a deal on $550 billion in new spending on infrastructure.
Millions of Americans with tens of billions in unpaid rent face eviction and loss of their home.
A handful of banks now dominate the US financial sector. This consolidation has resulted in higher costs for consumers and small businesses and put the economy at greater risk of a financial crisis.
New research suggests that an effective way to locate and track large concentrations of microplastics in the ocean could be from high in the sky.
Les personnes atteintes de troubles mentaux durant leur jeunesse sont non seulement plus susceptibles que les autres de développer des maladies chroniques, mais aussi de vieillir plus précocement.
About a quarter of census tracts with a post office lack a credit union or community bank, making the US Postal Service an efficient way to help more Americans get low-cost bank accounts.
If shipping were a country, it would rank between Japan and Germany as the sixth-largest contributor to global carbon dioxide emissions.
During mating season, a male turtle-headed sea snake will often lose sight of the female before mating can happen. The female may be metres away, but the male won’t ever find her again.
Estos líderes, en mayor o menor medida, subestimaron la gravedad de la pandemia – con consecuencias mortales.
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Professor of Management & Organizations; Professor of Environment & Sustainability; Professor of Sustainable Enterprise at the Ross School of Business and School of Environment and Sustainability, University of Michigan
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Doctoral Candidate in Movement Science, University of Michigan
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Associate Professor of Sociology, University of Michigan
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Associate Professor of Practice of Public Policy, University of Michigan
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MBA/MS candidate, University of Michigan
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Associate Professor of Pediatrics, University of Michigan
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Research Professor, Michigan Transportation Research Institute, University of Michigan
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Assistant Professor of Anesthesiology, University of Michigan
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Assistant Professor of Psychiatry, University of Michigan
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Associate Professor of Internal Medicine, University of Michigan
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Professor Emeritus, Center for Bioethics and Social Sciences in Medicine, University of Michigan
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Professor Emeritus of Climate and Space Sciences and Engineering, University of Michigan
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Professor of Civil and Environmental Engineering, University of Michigan
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Associate Professor of Biomedical Engineering, University of Michigan
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Independent writer and editor, University of Michigan
