Faculty in the News: March - May, 2012

Below are selected citations of news stories organized by academic department, compiled by the SPH Office of Communications. Please submit additional articles or comments to sph.communications@umich.edu.

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Archived Citations (sorted by month and faculty member)

Biostatistics

Goncalo Abecasis, "Abundance of rare DNA changes following population explosion may hold clues to common diseases," Webnewswire.com, May 20, 2012
Goncalo Abecasis, "Abundance of rare DNA changes following population explosion may hold clues to common diseases ," EurekAlert!, May 17, 2012
Mousumi Banerjee, "American Statistical Association Names 48 Fellows for 2012," Yahoo News, May 10, 2012
Bhramar Mukherjee, "American Statistical Association Names 48 Fellows for 2012," Yahoo News, May 10, 2012
Goncalo Abecasis, "Association of Common Variants in TNFRSF13B, TNFSF13, and ANXA3 with Serum Levels of Non-Albumin Protein and Immunoglobulin Isotypes in Japanese," Public Library of Science, April 27, 2012
Goncalo Abecasis, "Michigan’s Abecasis Named Hottest Researcher of the Year," ASPH, April 20, 2012
Wen Ye, "Researchers to Study Health Effect of Newborn Screening," International Business Times, March 10, 2012
Wen Ye, "U-M Researchers To Study Long-Term Health Outcomes Of Newborn Screenings," CBS Detroit, March 10, 2012

Environmental Health Sciences

Dana Dolinoy Cipolla, "Changes in Genetic Function in Brain Linked to Alzheimer's," Aging Well, May 21, 2012
Andrew Maynard, "What's in your makeup? Burden of keeping cosmetics safe left up to manufacturers," Detroit Free Press, April 29, 2012
Howard Hu, "Advances Made in Understanding Alzheimer's," The Cutting Edge News, April 25, 2012
Laura Rozek, "Advances Made in Understanding Alzheimer's," The Cutting Edge News, April 25, 2012
Dana Dolinoy Cipolla, "Advances Made in Understanding Alzheimer's," The Cutting Edge News, April 25, 2012
Dana Dolinoy Cipolla, "Changes in genetic function in the brain linked to Alzheimer's," Medical Xpress, April 20, 2012
Laura Rozek, "Changes in genetic function in the brain linked to Alzheimer's," Medical Xpress, April 20, 2012
Niladri Basu, "Michigan Scientists: Don't Roll Back Mercury Regs," Public News Service , April 10, 2012
John Meeker, "BPA Linked to Male Infertility ," Rodale News, April 09, 2012
Niladri Basu, "Michigan scientists support federal rules limiting mercury emissions," The University Record, April 09, 2012
Niladri Basu, "Michigan researchers back federal restrictions on mercury," Michigan Live, April 05, 2012
Niladri Basu, "Michigan scientists support federal rules limiting mercury emissions," NPR- Michigan Radio, April 05, 2012
Richard Neitzel, "Michigan in the News," The Record, April 03, 2012
Richard Neitzel, "Noise pollution takes a toll on health," Minnesota Public Radio, April 03, 2012
Chuanwu Xi, "U.S. economic woes ripple all the way to Latin America, U-M study shows," University of Michigan Health System, March 26, 2012
Chuanwu Xi, "UM Funds Sustainable Water Projects In Ghana, Peru," CBS Detroit, March 22, 2012
Tim Dvonch, "Peters funeral home open, sans crematorium," Trib Live, March 13, 2012
Andrew Maynard, "Nano Quadrotors – a game-changing technology innovation, but can we handle it?," Institute for Ethics and Emerging Technologies, March 06, 2012
Andrew Maynard, "SPH students creating science blogs in social media course," Record Update, March 05, 2012

Epidemiology

Brian A Burt, "THE PENDULUM SWINGS," The American Reporter, May 08, 2012
Amr Soliman, "Michigan Collaborates with Middle East Cancer Consortium," ASPH, May 04, 2012
Allison Aiello, "In a lather over antibacterial soap," Star Tribune, April 30, 2012
Allison Aiello, "Neighborhood social cohesion and posttraumatic stress disorder in a community-based sample: findings from the Detroit Neighborhood Health Study.," SafetyLit, April 30, 2012
Matthew Boulton, "Michigan Shares in New Consortium to Train Global Health Researchers," ASPH, April 20, 2012
Matthew Boulton, "Michigan’s Boulton Wins Duncan Clark Award," ASPH, April 20, 2012
Mark L Wilson, "Michigan’s Malaria Research," ASPH, April 20, 2012
Allison Aiello, "In a lather over antibacterial soap," Houston Chronicle, April 18, 2012
Allison Aiello, "In a lather over antibacterial soap," chron.com, April 17, 2012
Allison Aiello, "In a lather over antibacterial soap," San Antonio Express-News, April 16, 2012
Allison Aiello, "How To Prevent A Cold," Prevention, April 13, 2012
Eden Wells, "Students spend weekend on community assessment for ongoing tornado relief efforts in Kentucky," University of Michigan School of Public Health, March 29, 2012
Rafael Meza Rodriguez, "Wayne State study finds abnormal brain responses in kids with schizophrenic parents," Crain's Detroit Business, March 19, 2012
Rafael Meza Rodriguez, "Wayne State study finds abnormal brain responses in kids with schizophrenic parents," Crain's Detroit Business, March 19, 2012
Rafael Meza Rodriguez, ".Decline in smoking saves nearly 800,000 lives over 25 years ," Web Newswire, March 17, 2012
Rafael Meza Rodriguez, "Decline in smoking saves nearly 800,000 lives over 25 years," Webnewswire, March 17, 2012
Rafael Meza Rodriguez, "Decline in smoking saves nearly 800,000 lives over 25 years ," Press Zoom, March 16, 2012
Ana Diez Roux, "The worse the economy gets, the longer people live?," Shanghia Daily, March 14, 2012
Rafael Meza Rodriguez, "UM: Decline In Smoking Saves 800,000 Lives Over 25 Years," CBS Detroit, March 14, 2012
Rafael Meza Rodriguez, "UM: Decline In Smoking Saves 800,000 Lives Over 25 Years," CBS Detroit, March 14, 2012
Allison Aiello, "With Environmental Laws Under Attack, Pesticide Conference to Convene in New Haven, CT .," ENews Park Forest, March 09, 2012

Health Behavior & Health Education

Ken Resnicow, "Research from University of Michigan Provide New Insights into Diet and Nutrition," NewsRx, May 25, 2012
Daniel Kruger, "Genesee County Community Mental Health Mixdown (mp3 Podcast)," MediaFire, May 20, 2012
Daniel Kruger, "Unhealthy Finances," demo dirt, May 17, 2012
Arline T Geronimus, "Racism and infant mortality," The Boston Globe, May 15, 2012
Vic Strecher, "Mobile tech in healthcare delivery is topic of mHealth World Congress," MedCityNews, May 03, 2012
Daniel Kruger, "Why Guys Cheat in the Summer," Cosmopolitan, April 30, 2012
Daniel Kruger, "Help Me Save a Million Men," The Huffington Post, April 24, 2012
Noreen M Clark, "Numbers, Weight, Quality of Life and the Best Proven Strategies for Weight Loss," CalorieLab, April 23, 2012
Daniel Kruger, "Michigan Sees Financial Strains of Recessions Echoed in Community Health," ASPH, April 20, 2012
Noreen M Clark, "The Simple Idea That Is Transforming Health Care," The Wall Street Journal, April 14, 2012
Scott Roberts, "Harvard Medical, others team up on personal genomics," Mass High Tech, April 04, 2012
Scott Roberts, "The Impact of Personal Genomics Study to Start Collecting Data," Genetic Engineering & Biotechnology News, April 04, 2012
Scott Roberts, "Pathway Genomics Teams with Harvard Medical School and University of Michigan for NHGRI-Funded Genomic Testing Study," Business Wire Canada, April 03, 2012
Scott Roberts, "Pathway Genomics Teams with Harvard Medical School and University of Michigan for NHGRI-Funded Genomic Testing Study," Market Watch- The Wall Street Journal, April 03, 2012
Daniel Kruger, "Cate Blanchett Cover Of Intelligent Life Completely Photoshop-Free ," The New York Times, March 23, 2012
Harvey Leo, "Living Without's Pediatric Allergist Harvey L. Leo, MD, Answers Your Questions about Food Allergies.," Living Without, March 21, 2012
Daniel Kruger, "Victoria’s Secret Angels And Supermodels Without Makeup Still Popular Two Years Later," The International Business Times, March 21, 2012
Daniel Kruger, "Why We Do What We Do After Sex (Men Falling Asleep Is So Last Year)," Glamour, March 19, 2012
Daniel Kruger, "Why we do what we do after sex?," Glamour, March 19, 2012
Daniel Kruger, "tobacco control policies in the United States prevented 795,000 lung cancer deaths from 1975 to 2000," PressZoom, March 16, 2012
Daniel Kruger, "Do Men and Women Want Different Things After Sex?," AlterNet, March 15, 2012
Scott Roberts, "Study on the personal impact of consumer genomics services," PHG Foundation, March 06, 2012
Scott Roberts, "New study launched investigating the impacts of personal genomic testing," Medical Express, March 05, 2012
Scott Roberts, "PGen study to examine impact of consumer genomics," News Medical, March 05, 2012

Health Management & Policy

Edward Norton, "U-M researchers learn in Lansing as part of CHRT Policy Fellowship," Health System Headlines- University of Michigan Health System, May 09, 2012
Ken Warner, "Efforts to roll back Michigan's smoking ban should be soundly rejected," AnnArbor.com, May 06, 2012
Rajesh Balkrishnan, "Michigan Finds African-Americans Face Obstacles to HIV Therapy Adherence," ASPH, May 04, 2012
Ken Warner, "Michigan’s Warner Named Health Policy Champion," ASPH, May 04, 2012
Rajesh Balkrishnan, "African-Americans Face Roadblocks to HIV Therapy," The Cutting Edge News, May 02, 2012
Rajesh Balkrishnan, "African-Americans face roadblocks to HIV therapy, untreated depression makes it worse," Science Codex, May 02, 2012
Rajesh Balkrishnan, "African-Americans Face Roadblocks To HIV Therapy, Untreated Depression Makes It Worse," redOrbit.com, May 02, 2012
Rajesh Balkrishnan, "African-Americans face roadblocks to HIV therapy, untreated depression makes it worse," Medical Xpress, May 02, 2012
David Mendez, "Tobacco Control Policy Initiated by WHO Could Save Millions of Lives," Medindia, April 28, 2012
David Mendez, "WHO Anti-Smoking Effort Could Save Millions of Lives, Study Finds," ADVANCE for Nurses, April 28, 2012
Carmen Green, "Carmen Green, M.D. appointed to new government and health committees," Health System Headlines- University of Michigan Health System, April 27, 2012
Ken Warner, "How Washington lost the war on childhood obesity," MSNBC, April 27, 2012
Ken Warner, "Special Report: How Washington went soft on childhood obesity," Reuters, April 27, 2012
Charles Friedman, "Third Innovations in Education Symposium a Big Success," UConn Today, April 27, 2012
Ken Warner, "Cigarette Smoking will Fall Just 1.7% by 2030 without Action, Study Claim," International Business Times, April 26, 2012
David Mendez, "Cigarette Smoking will Fall Just 1.7% by 2030 without Action, Study Claims," International Business Times, April 26, 2012
David Mendez, "Cigarette warnings prevent ex-smokers relapsing," Health24, April 26, 2012
David Mendez, "Doubling cigarette prices could help reduce tobacco use," Jagran Post, April 26, 2012
Julia Adler-Milstein, "Viewpoint: Challenges to Health Data Sharing Must Be Addressed," iHealthBeat, April 26, 2012
David Mendez, "Warnings on Cigarette Packs May Keep Ex-Smokers From Relapse," iVillage, April 26, 2012
David Mendez, "Warnings on Cigarette Packs May Keep Ex-Smokers From Relapse," U.S.News & World Report, April 26, 2012
David Mendez, "Warnings on Cigarette Packs May Keep Ex-Smokers From Relapse," Yahoo News, April 26, 2012
Julia Adler-Milstein, "JAMA: Overcoming U.S. HIE adoption barriers? Outlook unclear ," Health Imaging, April 25, 2012
Ken Warner, "Michigan Public Health Week Celebrates Local Heroes and Champions," State of Michigan- Department of Community Health, April 25, 2012
Ken Warner, "Michigan Public Health Week Celebrates Local Heroes and Champions," State of Michigan, April 25, 2012
Julia Adler-Milstein, "Sharing Clinical Data Electronically," The Journal of the American Medical Association, April 25, 2012
David Mendez, "WHO Policy Could Have Big Effect on Smoking Rates," MedPage Today, April 25, 2012
Xiao Xu, "Changes in genetic function in the brain linked to Alzheimer's," Medical Xpress, April 20, 2012
Rajesh Balkrishnan, "White People More Likely To be Prescribed Antidepressants," The Huffington Post- United Kingdom, April 19, 2012
Rajesh Balkrishnan, "Study: Whites more likely to get antidepressant prescription than African-Americans, Hispanics," CBS News, April 18, 2012
Rajesh Balkrishnan, "White? You're More Likely to Be Prescribed an Antidepressant," The Atlantic Monthly, April 16, 2012
Richard Hirth, "$10 premium hike can prompt patients to shop for other insurers," American Medical News, April 11, 2012
Rajesh Balkrishnan, "Minorities, Medicaid Patients Less Likely To Be Prescribed Antidepressants," Medical News Today, April 10, 2012
Rajesh Balkrishnan, "Minorities, Medicare Recipients Less Likely to Get Antidepressants," The University Record, April 10, 2012
Rajesh Balkrishnan, "Antidepressant Prescribing Less Likely For Medicaid, Medicare And Minority Patients," Medical News Today, April 09, 2012
Rajesh Balkrishnan, "Minorities, Medicare Recipients Less Likely to Get Antidepressants," U.S.News & World Report, April 09, 2012
Rajesh Balkrishnan, "Minority Patients on Medicare and Medicaid are Less Likely to Get Needed Anti-Depressants," The Cutting Edge News, April 08, 2012
Rajesh Balkrishnan, "Study: Blacks Less Likely to Receive Antidepressants," The Root, April 07, 2012
Rajesh Balkrishnan, "Payor, Patient Ethnicity Impact Antidepressant Prescribing," Psych Central, April 06, 2012
Rajesh Balkrishnan, "Minorities And Depression: How Doctors Prescribe Antidepressants," The Huffington Post- Canada, April 05, 2012
Peter Jacobson, "MNG Contributing Health Law Expert: At the Heart of the Supreme Court ACA Challenge, Differing Philosophies on Law and Government," The Medicare NewsGroup, March 30, 2012
Gilbert Omenn, "A Cautionary Note For Developers of Personalized Medicine," PharmTech Talk, March 29, 2012
Ken Warner, "Anti-smoking efforts save lives," Yale Daily News, March 27, 2012
Steven Katz, "Best Marginal Threshold for Ductal Carcinoma in Situ Still Not Clear ," CancerNetwork, March 26, 2012
Gilbert Omenn, "IOM Report Recommends Evaluation and Validation Process to Prevent Problems Associated With Turning 'Omics' Research Into Clinical Tests," Lab Manager Magazine, March 26, 2012
David Mendez, "Warnings on Cigarette Packs May Keep Ex-Smokers From Relapse," Winnipeg Free Press, March 26, 2012
Richard Hirth, "Healthcare Insurance Price Hikes Drive Consumer Competition," The Cutting Edge News, March 23, 2012
Steven Katz, "Margin threshold for women with ductal carcinoma in situ," Medical Xpress, March 22, 2012
Steven Katz, "Researchers ID Margin Threshold for Women With Ductal Carcinoma In Situ," DocGuide, March 22, 2012
Richard Hirth, "When Health Insurance Costs Rise Slightly, People Still Shop Around," InsuranceNewsNet.com , Inc., March 22, 2012
Steven Katz, "Wide Surgical Margins Best for DCIS," MedPage Today, March 22, 2012
Richard Hirth, "When Health Insurance Costs Rise — Even A Little — People Shop Around," CBS Detroit, March 21, 2012
Peter Jacobson, "Symposium examines "Michigan in Transition"," Legal News, March 14, 2012
Peter Jacobson, "Symposium examines 'Michigan in Transition'," Detroit Legal News, March 14, 2012
Howard Markel, "Health-record privacy impeding medical research," The Inquirer Daily News, March 13, 2012
Peter Jacobson, "Symposium to explore Michigan in transition with Congressman Clarke," LegalNews.com, March 09, 2012
Kenneth Langa, "1 in 7 with Alzheimer's or other dementia lives alone, report finds," Vitals on MSNBC, March 08, 2012
Daniel Eisenberg, "U-M experts: Depression a serious struggle for many college students," AnnArbor.com, March 08, 2012
Peter Jacobson, "Wayne Law’s Journal of Law in Society symposium explores Michigan in transition ," Web Newswire, March 08, 2012
Lisa Prosser, "Michigan State University Public Health Officials To Work With University Of Michigan, Other Research Teams To Avoid Research Duplication," University Business, March 05, 2012
Carmen Green, "Where Pain Lives: Race And Neighborhood Status Linked With Worse Chronic Pain," redOrbit, March 02, 2012
Carmen Green, "Where Pain Lives: Chronic Pain Tougher to Manage in Poor Neighborhoods ," Newswise, March 01, 2012

SPH General

"Launch of IMPACT World+," EurekAlert!, May 21, 2012
"Can New Chemistry Make a Malaria Drug Plentiful and Cheap?," American Association for the Advancement of Science, May 18, 2012
"Transcript," TVEyes Media Monitoring Suite, May 17, 2012
"Regence Welcomes Lisa Brubaker as Senior Vice President of Government Programs," Pharmacy Choice, May 14, 2012
"FDA maps out global strategy," The Lancet, May 12, 2012
"Mother and daughter have special connection to River Bank Run," MLive, May 09, 2012
"Replay: Nagging health questions," Omaha World-Herald, May 09, 2012
"Health officials present results from a 2011 health survey this month at University of Michigan-Flint," MLive, May 08, 2012
"Commuter Challenge ramping up participants after first week," AnnArbor.com, May 07, 2012
"UOG Students Headed Off Island for Summer Internships," Pacific News Center, May 07, 2012
"A Pig Eats Slop, and So Do You," The Haitian Times, May 05, 2012
"Where do artemisinin-based combination therapies go?," Nature Medicine, May 04, 2012
"Study: More heart surgery centers mean more unnecessary heart surgery," The Washington Post, May 02, 2012
"Record number of companies commit to getDowntown's Commuter Challenge," AnnArbor.com, May 01, 2012
"Regence Welcomes Lisa Brubaker as Senior Vice President of Government Programs," Market Watch- The Wall Street Journal, April 30, 2012
"WASHTENAW COUNTY: Commuter Challenge happening during month of May," Heritage Newspapers, April 30, 2012
"OTHER VOICES: Health care reform beats repeal," Crain's Detroit Business, April 29, 2012
"This Day in History: April 26," blog.thewesternvault.com, April 26, 2012
"ulaanbaatar water supply faces mineral threats," The UB Post, April 26, 2012
"Oak Park clinic director honored for humanitarianism," Oak Leaves, April 25, 2012
"New Administrator Named For Human Services Center," Yankton Press & Dakotan, April 24, 2012
"Whooping Cough is Making a Dangerous Come-Back in the U.S.," The Cutting Edge News, April 24, 2012
"A “Polio Pioneer” remembers," Naperville Sun, April 23, 2012
"Common Chemicals That Trigger Allergies," Organic Gardening, April 23, 2012
"UM Researchers Get $1.7M To Conquer Resurgent Whooping Cough," CBS Detroit, April 22, 2012
"What’s up with two separate Earth Days?," The Washington Times, April 22, 2012
"Beckley broadcasting executive Ira Southern dies in Florida," The Register-Herald, April 21, 2012
"New Planet Blue Student Innovation Fund backs four student-driven campus sustainability projects," The University Record, April 17, 2012
"Westfall Static Mixer Receives NSF Certification," Market Watch- The Wall Street Journal, April 17, 2012
"Four student-driven campus sustainability projects backed by new Planet Blue Student Innovation Fund," University of Michigan News Service, April 16, 2012
"Four UM Student Sustainability Projects Backed By Planet Blue Student Innovation Fund," CBS Detroit, April 16, 2012
"Prozac: What's Race Got to Do With It?," Mother Jones, April 12, 2012
"Salk's Polio Vaccine Called Safe 57 Years Ago," AMERICAN SCIENTIST, April 12, 2012
"Salk's polio vaccine called safe 57 years ago today," The San Diego Union-Tribune, April 12, 2012
"Evict McDonald’s From Hospitals, Demands Advocacy Group," The International Business Times, April 11, 2012
"Short Reads," Genomeweb, April 01, 2012
"Dr. Ryan Halbower Is New Dentist at Aspen Dental in Portage," Market Watch- The Wall Street Journal, March 30, 2012
"Memories of what life was like before the polio vaccine," Chicago Daily Herald, March 29, 2012
"Really? Ulcers Increase the Risk of Diabetes," The New York Times, March 26, 2012
"NPR’s Harris speaks on science reporting," The Michigan Daily, March 25, 2012
"Sunday Dialogue: Equitable Health Care," The New York Times, March 24, 2012
"3 Dems vie for 1st District seat held by Harris," The Star Democrat, March 23, 2012
"Invest in a Master’s Degree in Health Informatics," NonClinicalJobs.com, March 21, 2012
"Syngenta Principal Scientist Speaks at Society of Toxicology Annual Meeting," WCAX, March 21, 2012
"Mrs. Rachel Marshall Is Dead," Daily Observer, March 19, 2012
"Mrs. Rachel Marshall Is Dead ," Daily Observer - Liberia , March 19, 2012
"Do Men and Women Want Different Things After Sex?," AlterNet, March 15, 2012
"Aastrom Biosciences Appoints Dr. LaVonne Lang as Head of Regulatory Affairs," Market Watch, March 14, 2012
"Aastrom Biosciences Appoints Dr. LaVonne Lang as Head of Regulatory Affairs," FinancialContent Services, March 14, 2012
"Dow gives $10M for U-M students to study sustainability," Detroit Free Press, March 13, 2012
"Dow and U-M Launch Innovative Program to Develop Sustainability Leaders," Market Watch, March 12, 2012
"People in Poor Neighborhoods Have More Pain, Study Finds," Health Day, March 08, 2012
"Brigham and Women's, Univ. of Michigan Team with 23andMe and Pathway to Study Consumer Genomics," Genomeweb, March 06, 2012
"http://www.mlive.com/midland/index.ssf/2012/03/midland_residents_concerned_about_health_effects_of_dioxin.html," MLive, March 01, 2012
"Researchers will use computer modeling and patient surveys to study health and economic outcomes for screening of Krabbe disease, Pompe disease, and phenylketonuria," Virtual Press Office, March 01, 2012
"University of Michigan Researchers to Study Health Outcomes and Economics of Newborn Screening," The Sacramento Bee, March 01, 2012
"URMC elects new Chair of biostatistics department," Campus Times, March 01, 2012