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With 130 Americans dying every day from opioid overdoses, and 2 million suffering from disorders related to prescription and non-prescription opioids, the University of Michigan is ramping up efforts to make an impact on the opioid epidemic through the research and expertise of its faculty and their teams.
When we fret about the deterioration of the American diet, we tend to focus on the excessive amounts of sugar, salt, and calories we’re now eating. What we don’t talk about: an important ingredient that’s gone missing as we’ve been filling our plates with more chicken and cheese. Fiber.
Michigan Public Health faculty and others are working closely with officials from Washtenaw County to share information and answer questions about disparities in health access and outcomes in the area, and to talk about ways the county is trying to reduce inequality.
The global rollout of HIV pre-exposure prophylaxis (PrEP) is lagging in some settings, and improvements in messaging could give it an important boost.
Two-thirds of patients who visited a doctor in 2017 did not use a health portal that could help improve their health in the long run, according to a new study by the University of Michigan.
Nearly 28,000 American children and teens have died because of firearms in the past decade. A new website from a group led by Rebecca Cunningham and Marc Zimmerman aims to change that by helping researchers, health care providers, and others tackle the prevention of youth firearm injuries as a public health issue.