http://medicalxpress.com/ en-us Medical Xpress provides the latest news from University of Michigan You're standing near an airport luggage carousel and your bag emerges on the conveyor belt, prompting you to spring into action. How does your brain make the shift from passively waiting to taking action when your bag appears? http://medicalxpress.com/news/2013-05-potential-brain-behavior.html Neuroscience Tue, 21 May 2013 12:43:55 EST news288359022 Whooping cough has exploded in the United States and some other developed countries in recent decades, and many experts suspect ineffective childhood vaccines for the alarming resurgence. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2013-05-explanations-whooping-resurgence-dont-scrutiny.html Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes Mon, 20 May 2013 15:00:15 EST news288270470 Children of depressed parents pick up on their parents' sadness—whether mom or dad realizes their mood or not. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2013-05-kids-boys-sadness-depressed-parents.html Psychology & Psychiatry Fri, 17 May 2013 10:00:01 EST news287997819 The type of sensors that pick up the rhythm of a beating heart in implanted cardiac defibrillators and pacemakers are vulnerable to tampering, according to a new study conducted in controlled laboratory conditions. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2013-05-sensors-heart-devices-consumer-electronics.html Cardiology Thu, 16 May 2013 12:59:04 EST news287927936 (Medical Xpress)—Watching TV commercials of people munching on hot, crispy French fries or sugar-laden cereal resonates more with teens than advertisements about cell phone plans or the latest car. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2013-05-food-commercials-teen-brains.html Neuroscience Wed, 08 May 2013 07:40:01 EST news287216325 Cancer cells are wily, well-traveled adversaries, constantly side-stepping treatments to stop their spread. But for the first time, scientists at the University of Michigan have decoded the molecular chatter that ramps certain cancer cells into overdrive and can cause tumors to metastasize throughout the body. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2013-04-decoded-molecular-messages-prostate-breast.html Cancer Tue, 30 Apr 2013 13:21:41 EST news286546894 (Medical Xpress)—Wielding a joystick and wearing special glasses, pain researcher Alexandre DaSilva rotates and slices apart a large, colorful, 3-D brain floating in space before him. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2013-04-hologram-like-d-brain-decode-migraine.html Medical research Fri, 19 Apr 2013 08:51:58 EST news285580111 What would it take to end tobacco use once and for all? This is the question several scholars, scientists and policy experts address in a provocative series of articles on various strategies for eliminating tobacco use, if not entirely, at least enough to significantly slow the global death toll estimated at 1 billion people by the end of this century, with the status quo. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2013-04-experts-strategies-tobacco.html Health Wed, 17 Apr 2013 08:38:33 EST news285406707 Researchers at the University of Michigan have identified a new potential therapeutic target for lowering cholesterol that could be an alternative or complementary therapy to statins. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2013-04-u-m-cholesterol-blood.html Cardiology Wed, 10 Apr 2013 15:04:55 EST news284825061 Researchers in the Life Sciences Institute at the University of Michigan have challenged a long-held belief that whitening of skeletal muscle in diabetes is harmful. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2013-04-weights-blood-sugar-white-muscle.html Medical research Sun, 07 Apr 2013 13:00:24 EST news284555009 One of the major obstacles to growing new organs—replacement hearts, lungs and kidneys—is the difficulty researchers face in building blood vessels that keep the tissues alive, but new findings from the University of Michigan could help overcome this roadblock. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2013-04-blood-vessels-advance-tissue.html Medical research Thu, 04 Apr 2013 15:46:49 EST news284309201 Preparations are underway for the first known human trial to use embryonic-like stem cells collected from adult cells to grow bone. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2013-04-cells-culled-adults-human-bone.html Medical research Tue, 02 Apr 2013 11:47:00 EST news284122010 The majority of gay men in relationships say they establish a "sexual agreement" with their partner, primarily to prevent the spread of HIV and other sexually transmitted diseases, according to a University of Michigan study. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2013-03-sexual-agreements-gay-couples-hiv.html HIV & AIDS Tue, 26 Mar 2013 12:31:22 EST news283519877 A common test used to determine mercury exposure from dental amalgam fillings may significantly overestimate the amount of the toxic metal released from fillings, according to University of Michigan researchers. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2013-03-mercury-common-overestimate-exposure-dental.html Dentistry Wed, 20 Mar 2013 11:31:13 EST news282997863 (Medical Xpress)—Among older American adults, a greater purpose in life is linked with a lower risk of stroke, a new University of Michigan study found. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2013-03-purpose-life-lowers-older-adults.html Health Thu, 07 Mar 2013 07:05:46 EST news281862340