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When medical interns worked 90-hour weeks for a month, they showed impairments in vigilance, attention and driving skills similar to those they showed after drinking three to four cocktails while working a normal 44-hour weekly schedule.
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U-M mobilizes to help Hurricane Katrina victims |
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The Michigan community is offering assistance to victims of Hurricane Katrina, including an online relocation system to match victims with available places to live and working with displaced university students. |
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In It, Into It, Inside It, Down In and In a Mood are from Lawrence Joseph's new volume of poetry, Into It, which confronts the events of Sept 11, 2001, and their wake. (Farrar, Straus & Giroux, $22 hardcover.)
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A Michigan study provides the first direct evidence that the brain's own pain-fighting chemicals, called endorphins, play a role in the phenomenon known as the placebo effect—and that this response corresponds with a reduction in feelings of pain.
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Chinese photographers document the increased social stratification visible in Chinese cities during the last decade of intense economic and political change. The exhibit runs Sept. 12 - Oct. 21 at the U-M Institute for the Humanities. Photo at right, Untitled, is a 2005 Shanghai scene by the exhibit's curator, Gu Zheng. |
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Telling people, especially older adults, that a consumer claim is false can make them mistakenly remember it as true, say marketing professors at the Ross School of Business. (Illustration warns of danger of nonreversible garage-door openers.)
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More than 80 percent of men who die from prostate cancer succumb to bone cancer. New research by U-M scientists suggests how prostate cancer enters bone tissue by manipulating proteins.
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ESPN's Ivan Maisel wrote a fine story on how Coach Lloyd Carr makes sure the freshmen learn to sing Hail to the Victors.
Short excerpt (586 Kb) | Full video (lo-res - 7Mb)
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Young people who misuse asthma inhalers are seven times more likely to use illegal drugs and nearly three times more likely to use alcohol than their peers.
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