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A new national research and training center at the University of Michigan School of Public Health will research gun violence and safety solutions in the wake of multiple mass school shootings.
A team of researchers led by Rebecca Cunningham, interim vice president of research at the University of Michigan, have now analyzed the level of funding provided to different causes of childhood deaths. This included cancer, motor vehicle crashes, meningitis, diabetes and opioid overdoses, among others.
University of Michigan's School of Public Health is partnering with Sandy Hook Promise Foundation and other organizations to provide schools with training and resources to prevent gun violence.
Changing the way individuals are selected to be screened for lung cancer, by considering their probability of getting or dying from lung cancer calculated from risk-prediction models, could prevent 14% of lung cancer deaths per year.
As the nation continues to battle an epidemic of addiction and overdose related to opioids and other drugs, several teams of University of Michigan researchers have received millions of dollars in new federal funding to address the issue head-on.
Scientists seeking answers to what is behind high rates of preterm birth in Puerto Rico have found an association between exposure to chemicals commonly found in many consumer products and a shorter duration of pregnancy and increased risk of preterm birth.