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What do older adults think about medical marijuana?
Most accept its use with doctor’s recommendation, but want more research, U-M/AARP National Poll on Healthy Aging finds.
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Subtracting additives
Victor Katch runs down the good, the bad, and the awful about food additives and health.
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Why more men get vasectomies during March Madness
Many men schedule their downtime to watch college basketball. A Michigan Medicine expert explains.
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A new way to track deadly ‘superbugs’
Using a real-world outbreak as a test case, researchers may have discovered a way to slow the spread of superbugs.
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Can foods cause chronic disease?
Vic Katch explains how biologic toxins, or AGEs, may increase disease, accelerate aging, and cause dementia.
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Students promote lifesaving power of organ, tissue donation
A bone marrow recipient and the daughter of a heart transplant patient work to increase donor awareness.
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This boy's life
Donated tissue from the brain tumor of 5-year-old Chad Carr provides cancer researchers with critical clues.
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You can't outrun your diet
Vic Katch debunks the myth that exercise is effective for weight loss.
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Doctors of tomorrow
U-M finds the key to attracting underrepresented minorities to medical school: ‘Start them young, get them motivated, and get them on the path.’