When a person nearing the end of their life enters hospice care, their hospice agency’s doctors may prescribe a “comfort kit” of small amounts of medications that their caregivers can give them in case of urgent, distressing symptoms such as severe anxiety, agitation, delirium, nausea and more. They may also get other prescriptions as their […]
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Who Has a Right to Ask if You’re Vaccinated?
April 26, 2021 – What do kindergarteners, people taking exotic vacations, health care workers and Ellis Island immigrants have in common? Most of them had to prove, in one form or another, that they wouldn’t spread deadly infectious diseases to others. Without that proof, they couldn’t start school, get on a plane, work in a […]
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Chemicals used to combat Zika, agricultural pests impact motor skills in infants
ANN ARBOR, MI, June 12, 2017 – A chemical currently being used to ward off mosquitoes carrying the Zika virus and a commonly used insecticide that was threatened with a ban in the United States have been associated with reduced motor function in Chinese infants, a University of Michigan study found. Researchers at the U-M […]
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Climate change to increase U.S. electricity costs over next century by billions of dollars more than forecasted
ANN ARBOR, Feb. 7, 2017 —Climate change is likely to increase U.S. electricity costs over the next century by billions of dollars more than economists previously forecast, according to a new study involving a University of Michigan researcher. The study shows how higher temperatures will raise not just the average annual electricity demand, but more […]
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Immigration fears among Latinos can impact baby size at birth
ANN ARBOR, Jan. 24, 2017 — With deportation and discrimination fears currently on the minds of many in the United States, a University of Michigan study shows that the stress from an historic immigration raid is associated with Latina mothers delivering babies with lower birth weights, and sometimes early. The U-M School of Public Health […]
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PTSD has its roots in very real, physical processes within the brain – and not in some sort of psychological “weakness”
ANN ARBOR, Mich. Oct. 7, 2016— For decades, neuroscientists and physicians have tried to get to the bottom of the age-old mystery of post-traumatic stress disorder, to explain why only some people are vulnerable and why they experience so many symptoms and so much disability. All experts in the field now agree that PTSD indeed […]