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However, younger parents are more likely to say online scores for physicians are very important, according to U-M's National Poll on Children's Health ANN ARBOR, Mich., Feb. 18, 2013 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- Numerous websites are available to rate just about any service or product: restaurant food, hotel service and even a pediatrician's care. However, a new poll from the University of Michigan shows that only 25 percent of parents say they consider doctor rating websites very...
Improving public engagement could help attract the right participants to the right studies, according to University of Michigan study Medical research is vital to the advancement of health care, but many medical research studies have too few people who participate. A new study from the University of Michigan takes an in-depth look at public participation in medical research across the United States. Through a unique, nationally representative survey of 2,150 households in 2011,...
Improving public engagement could help attract the right participants to the right studies, according to University of Michigan study ANN ARBOR, Mich., Jan. 31, 2013 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- Medical research is vital to the advancement of health care, but many medical research studies have too few people who participate. A new study from the University of Michigan takes an in-depth look at public participation in medical research across the United States. Through a unique,...
ANN ARBOR, Mich., Jan. 28, 2013 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- Survey results released today by the Center for Healthcare Research & Transformation (CHRT), in partnership with the Child Health Evaluation and Research Unit (CHEAR) at the University of Michigan, show that Michigan primary care physicians will continue accepting new patients--including Medicaid recipients--as the state's insured population grows under health care reform. Results of the statewide survey reveal that a...
Only 1 in 5 parents say they are very concerned about children, teens misusing narcotics, according to U-M's National Poll on Children's Health ANN ARBOR, Mich., Jan. 23, 2013 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- Despite data on rising rates of abuse and overdoses of narcotic pain medicines across all age groups, in a new poll from the University of Michigan, most parents said they are not very concerned about misuse of these medicines by children and teens. In addition, parent support...
Egg allergic children did not have adverse reactions to single dose of influenza vaccine in multi-center study ANN ARBOR, Mich., Jan. 22, 2013 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- Egg allergic children, including those with a history of anaphylaxis to egg, can safely receive a single dose of the seasonal influenza vaccine, according to a new study from the University of Michigan. Historically, the CDC recommended that the seasonal influenza vaccine not be administered to egg allergic...
Additional details about one of nation's largest ACOs, developed by U-M Health System ANN ARBOR, Mich., Jan. 17, 2013 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- More than 1,800 Michigan physicians will work together to tackle the challenge of providing better medical care and slowing the growth of health costs, in a new effort that will help them care for 81,000 of their Medicare-enrolled patients. (Logo: http://photos.prnewswire.com/prnh/20130117/DC44486LOGO ) The new organization is a joint...
MBA Students Received Unparalleled, First-Hand Investment Experience, Guiding Arbor Photonics from Seed Financing through Acquisition ANN ARBOR, Mich., Jan. 14, 2013 /PRNewswire/ -- The Frankel Commercialization Fund, in collaboration with The Samuel Zell & Robert H. Lurie Institute for Entrepreneurial Studies at the University of Michigan Ross School of Business, today announced that Arbor Photonics, a portfolio company of the fund, has been acquired by nLIGHT Corp., an...
April Flowers for redOrbit.com - Your Universe Online A research team, led by the University of Michigan, has developed a comprehensive map telling the story of human impact on the Great Lakes and identifying how "environmental stressors" stretching from Minnesota to Ontario are shaping the future of an ecosystem that contains 20 percent of the world's fresh water. The map, three years in the making, was a collaborative effort with the University of Wisconsin-Madison and a binational team...
A glass plate with a nanoscale roughness could be a simple way for scientists to capture and study the circulating tumor cells that carry cancer around the body through the bloodstream. Engineering and medical researchers at the University of Michigan have devised such a set-up, which they say takes advantage of cancer cells' stronger drive to settle and bind compared with normal blood cells. Circulating tumor cells are believed to contribute to cancer metastasis, the grim process of...
