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Ann Arbor YMCA Offers Chronic Disease Prevention & Management
THIS FALL, THE Ann Arbor YMCA will offer an expanded schedule of Chronic Disease Prevention and Management programs, including: Livestrong® at the YMCA, Enhance®Fitness, Pedaling for Parkinson’s and the YMCA’s Diabetes Prevention Program.…
Main Street Restaurant Health Code Violations Increase Between 2013 and 2014
IN 2013, THE newspaper did a comprehensive look at the restaurant inspection reports for Ann Arbor’s Main Street restaurants. The number of priority violations (violations, such as holding food at improper temperatures, or lack of…
New Study: Print Newspaper Readers Recall More Than Online Readers
Readers abandoning print newspapers in favor of online news may want to consider the effect it’s having. A study conducted by a researcher at the University of Houston (UH) finds those who read printed news publications read more news and…
September is Safe Sleep Month
by Emily Schuster Wachsberger
INFANT MORTALITY Awareness Month is observed nationally every September. In Michigan, Governor Rick Snyder has fine-tuned that designation and proclaimed September as Infant Safe Sleep Awareness Month.…
Will This High-Tech Sensor Keep Athletes Safe From Concussions?
by Holly Eagleson
Shockbox helmet sensors are bringing football-safety technology to high schoolers around the country.
AS PRESEASON games get under way on gridirons across the country, there’s been unusually positive news about…
Sports Drinks: A $5.5B Industry Built on “Bonking”—But What About When You’re Not Bonking?
by Jodie Gummow
AMERICANS SPENT $5.5 billion on sports drinks, mostly Gatorade and Powerade last year. Even 12 percent of elementary school kids drink sports drinks. And that doesn’t even count expenditures on other sports nutrition…
Could the Google Lens Make Checking Blood Glucose as Easy as Blinking?
by Patricia Dao
GOOGLE IS BEST known for software products such as Search, Gmail, and Maps. But the company’s top-secret research and development team, Google X, has been laser-focused on incubating unique “moonshot” ideas and products…
New Research: Dartmouth Scientists to Study Technology to Restore Memory Loss
by Derik Hertel
A PROJECT WHICH is in support of President Obama’s BRAIN (Brain Research through Advancing Innovative Neurotechnologies) initiative, will combine research on the basic mechanisms of memory function with the development of…
“Ken Turns 65 and Thinks About It”—An Essay on Aging
by Ken Wachsberger
I TURNED 65 in the middle of Ann Arbor Art Fair week. I’m a senior now under probably any definition of the word that has nothing to do with formal schooling. I’ve reached one of life’s major landmarks: I get to…
U-M Scientists Believe They Can Identify Which Viruses Cause HIV Infection
HIV-INFECTED PEOPLE carry many different HIV viruses and all have distinct personalities.
Yet, despite the breadth of infectivity, roughly 76 percent of HIV infections arise from a single virus. Now, scientists believe they can identify…