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Recent Research

Many SPH web resources help keep you up-to-date on new research in areas as diverse as aging and water quality, disease risk and health disparities. The first stop to learning more is SPH Findings magazine archive, which lets you search recent articles by keyword (including researcher last name, country, etc.)

inFOCUS Topics

• Antibacterial vs. plain soap
• Anthrax, genetics for drugs
• Arctic pollution
• Cancer, internationally
• Clinical trials
• DDT, danger vs. malaria
• Extreme heat
• Gene-environment interaction
• Heart disease in women
• Mapping health
• Maternal mortality
• Nursing homes
• Patient data, electronically
• Sex tourism & HIV
• Students & mental illness
• Teen smoking, by location
• Tuberculosis

Research News Releases

Study: Just like penguins and other primates, people trade sex for resources.
April 10, 2008, UM News Service and SPH release

Eco-friendly inhalers come with costs to families.
March 31, 2008, UM Health System release

Potential association of type 2 diabetes genes with prostate cancer.
March 31, 2008, UM News Service and SPH release

Cold conspirators: Ice crystals implicated in Arctic pollution.
Feb. 21, 2008, UM News Service release

Loss of resources caused depression in Gaza refugees.
Feb. 20, 2008 UM News Service and SPH release.

UM SPH sends first college student group to work with CDC in China.
Feb. 19, 2008 UM News Service and SPH release.
Read their trip blog.

Study suggests genetic connection between short stature and arthritis.
Jan. 11, 2008, UM News Service and SPH release

Cholesterol genes located, with surprises about good, bad cholesterol.
Jan. 11, 2008, UM News Service and SPH release

Americans pay the most for prescription drugs and still don't take them.
Jan. 8, 2008, UM News Service and SPH release

Study probes the "co-pay connection": Lowering drug co-pays for chronic disease patients increases use of important preventive medicines, rigorous study shows.
Jan. 8, 2008, UM Health System release (with video)

Heart patients find education programs lead to better health.
Jan. 3, 2008, UM News Service and SPH release

Study shows connection between job loss and poor health outcomes.
Dec. 7, 2007, UM News Service release (with video)

Nano-sized voltmeter measures electric fields deep within cells.
Nov. 29, 2007 UM News Service release

Gene study adds weight to theory that native people of the Americas arrived in a single main migration across the Bering Strait.
Nov. 27, 2007, UM Health System release

Annual poster day highlights field experiences of students in three SPH departments.
Nov. 1, 2007, UM SPH release

Veterans, depression & suicide: New VA/UM study yields key findings for all veterans’ care--highest risk seen among younger white men, and alcohol/drug abusers.
Oct. 30, 2007, UM Health System release.

UM to lead disaster aftermath research center.
October 23, 2007, UM News Service and UM SPH release

More about the M-Flu study in UM residences halls, co-managed by SPH's Allison Aiello, center.

Associate professor Amr Soliman, his SPH students, and colleagues around the world know that demystifying cancer requires both technology and passports. Learn more in Findings magazine

More on climate and contaminant research in the Arctic (PDF) run by EHS's Jerry Keeler, center.

More on Cleo Caldwell's work with fathers and sons and other projects that address health disparties.