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Leapfrog Group says U-M Hospitals and Health Centers provide some of the safest and most effective care in the country ANN ARBOR, Mich., Dec. 6, 2011 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- The University of Michigan hospitals are among the safest and most effective hospitals in the country, according to a new national ranking from the respected independent health care quality rating organization, The Leapfrog Group. This is the second year in a row, and third year overall, that Leapfrog...
Ripple effect of $319.7M in NIH grants, together with other research funding, could produce nearly $1.2 billion in economic activity ANN ARBOR, Mich., Nov. 21, 2011 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- Research at the University of Michigan Medical School brought hundreds of millions of dollars into the state of Michigan in the last year - and could have a total economic impact of nearly $1.2 billion, new data show. The school rose to sixth among all medical schools in terms of total funding from the...
Most parents are aware of the national "back to sleep" message, but many parents still place their infants in unsafe sleep settings. ANN ARBOR, Mich., Nov. 8, 2011 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- The nearly two-decades-long national "back to sleep" campaign that promotes infant safe sleep is credited with reducing the rate of sudden infant death syndrome in the United States. However, the rate of sudden unexpected infant deaths (SUIDs) due to unsafe sleep habits has continued to climb. SUIDs...
University of Michigan Report Finds that CFES Has Significant Impact Helping Low-income Student Get to College ESSEX, N.Y., Nov. 1, 2011 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- A report prepared by the University of Michigan found that the core practices of College For Every Student (CFES)--Pathways to College, Mentoring, and Leadership through Service--were aligned with the academic curriculum of the New York City schools, resulting in improvements in students' economic, academic, and social knowledge...
Dental visits are recommended to begin by age 1, but a new poll shows most children age 1-2 have not received appropriate oral health care ANN ARBOR, Mich., Oct. 24, 2011 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ --Although child health experts recommend that children begin oral health care by age 1 or when their first teeth emerge, a new report from the University of Michigan Health System C.S. Mott Children's Hospital National Poll on Children's Health shows that most children ages 1-2 have not yet started...
The Michigan Institute for Clinical & Health Research (MICHR) at the University of Michigan has selected the OpenClinica Enterprise clinical trial software platform to support a growing clinical study portfolio. Waltham, MA (PRWEB) October 17, 2011 The Michigan Institute for Clinical & Health Research (MICHR) at the University of Michigan has selected the OpenClinica Enterprise clinical trial software platform to support a growing clinical study portfolio. Starting this fall,...
American Academy of Pediatrics now says child passengers should stay in rear-facing seats until age 2; many parents facing their children forward too soon ANN ARBOR, Mich., Sept. 19, 2011 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- The American Academy of Pediatrics updated their guidelines for child passenger safety in April 2011, recommending children stay in rear-facing car seats until the age of two. But a new report from the C.S. Mott Children's Hospital National Poll on Children's Health shows that...
NEW YORK, Sept. 13, 2011 /PRNewswire/ -- The Authors Guild, the Australian Society of Authors, the Union Des Ecrivaines et des Ecrivains Quebecois (UNEQ), and eight individual authors have filed a copyright infringement lawsuit in federal court against HathiTrust, the University of Michigan, the University of California, the University of Wisconsin, Indiana University, and Cornell University. Plaintiff authors include children's book author and illustrator Pat Cummings, novelists Angelo...
Parents of teens likely underestimate own teens' substance use, while overestimating marijuana and alcohol use by teens nationally ANN ARBOR, Mich., Sept. 12, 2011 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- The latest C.S. Mott Children's Hospital National Poll on Children's Health from the University of Michigan finds that few parents (10 percent) believe their own teens, ages 13 to 17 years old, have used alcohol in the last year and even fewer (5 percent) believe their own teens have used marijuana in...
Event is complex's first exhibition, will focus on Chinese, Taiwanese and American art ANN ARBOR, Mich., Sept. 8, 2011 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- An exhibit of contemporary Taiwanese, Chinese, Chinese American and American art titled Looking Both Ways: A Contemporary Art Exhibition Coinciding with the Centennial of the Xinhai Revolution will be the first event of the new North Campus Research Complex Art Program, beginning Sept. 8. The Looking Both Ways exhibit will be presented by the Art...
