Opioid Use and Pregnancy
SPH Associate Professor and maternal health policy expert Katy Kozhimannil researches how opioid use affects reproductive-age women, pregnant women, and infants.
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School of Public Health students investigate foodborne outbreaks through Team D, a group in the Minnesota Department of Health’s Foodborne Diseases Unit.
Despite public health efforts, smoking continues to be the leading cause of preventable death in the U.S.
Understanding Obesity — Starting with a Baby’s First Meal
School of Public Health Professor Ellen Demerath’s MILK Study aims to understand how a mother’s weight and breast milk affects a child’s growth.
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New Tool Helps Researchers Calculate Size and Value of Studies
by Charlie Plain on September 20, 2017 at 6:38 pm
A new method co-developed by PhD student Fernando Alarid-Escudero can help researchers estimate the value and optimal size of a research study in order for it to be cost-effective. […]
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Understanding Obesity — Starting with a Baby’s First Meal
by Sarah Howard on September 7, 2017 at 9:45 pm
Children who have an obese mother are 2-to-3 times more likely to be obese as well. Ellen Demerath wants to understand why this happens. “We need to further explore the... […]
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Rosser Leading First Treatment Study of Gay and Bisexual Men with Prostate Cancer
by Charlie Plain on September 6, 2017 at 7:32 pm
Professor Simon Rosser has received a $3 million grant from the National Cancer Institute to conduct the first rehabilitation program to help gay and bisexual men overcome health challenges resulting from prostate cancer treatment. […]
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Half of Rural Hospitals Without Maternity Care
by Charlie Plain on September 6, 2017 at 7:02 pm
A new study from PhD student Peiyin Hung and the Rural Health Research Center finds that nine percent of rural counties in the U.S. lost hospital-based childbirth services from 2004-14. […]
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Professor Ellen Demerath leads the MILK study to help understand breast milk composition. (WCCO-TV)
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