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Products typically stored in home garages—including gasoline and gasoline powered equipment, lawn care products, pesticides, paint and woodworking supplies—contain chemicals that increase the risk of Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis (ALS), according to a new University of Michigan study.
Herman “Hank” Koren, MPH ’59, credits having an “immense career” thanks to the generosity of Henry F. Vaughan, the inaugural dean of the University of Michigan School of Public Health. Koren is returning the favor Vaughan paid to him by creating the Dr. Herman “Hank” and Mrs. Donna Koren Helping Hands Expendable Fund.
Researchers at Michigan Public Health and the U-M Rogel Cancer Center plan to use a $13 million grant from the National Cancer Institute to study how exposures to toxic metals are impacting the cancer risk of Michigan residents.
Students who ride newer, cleaner-air buses to school have improved academic performance, according to the latest University of Michigan School of Public Health study that documents the effects on students who ride new school buses rather than old ones.
Stuart Batterman, professor of Environmental Health Sciences and Global Public Health at the School of Public Health, studies the impacts of the environment on health, including air pollution control engineering, air quality monitoring, indoor air quality, exposure assessment, and environmental epidemiology.
Exposure to PFAs is almost unavoidable due to their presence in everyday items such as food packaging and receipt paper but a recent study found that blood donation may be a way to reduce PFA levels in your blood.