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Today's News: Thursday, July 2, 2009
U of M Experts make 4th of July travel safer by mapping locations of fatal accidents.
Experts at the University of Minnesota have worked to map locations of fatal accidents on rural roads in Minnesota so drivers can remember to be extra careful in those locations.
KTTC - Rochester
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email&video=true&random_string=fa11d82052bae7db64a87c4390c90ff4
Minnesota has the lowest obesity rate among kids
It's the kind of study you want to rank last in... A new report finds Minnesota kids have the lowest rate of obesity -- tying with Utah at just over 23 percent... "It's wonderful to see Minnesota tied for the lowest spot. I think that's great news for us, but I don't think that that means we don't have work to do still," said Dr. Jamie Stang with the University of Minnesota School of Public Health.
KARE - TV
To view: http://www.kare11.com/news/health/takekare/takekare_article.aspx?storyid=818743&catid=20
Drugs may not slow kidney damage in diabetics: Research
A new trial by researchers to evaluate the early use of two blood pressure drugs in people with Type-1 diabetes to slow kidney deterioration did not show promising results... Dr. Michael Mauer, professor of pediatrics and medicine at the University of Minnesota and lead author of the study, stated that the drugs used in the trail to prevent worsening of kidney problems in diabetics enalapril (Vasotec) and losartan (Hyzaar), are commonly prescribed after 15 years of the diagnose of the disease.
Reuters
http://www.reuters.com/article/healthNews/idUSTRE5605UK20090701
US News and World Report
http://health.usnews.com/articles/health/healthday/2009/07/01/drugs-
may-not-slow-kidney-damage-in-diabetes.html
The Med Guru
http://www.themedguru.com/20090702/newsfeature/drugs
-may-not-slow-kidney-damage-diabetics-research-86123336.html
Risky teens are fatalistic: study
More than one in seven adolescents believe they will not live beyond 35, according to a US study... The study's lead author Dr Iris Borowsky of the University of Minnesota, says the findings suggest teenage fatalism, not invincibility, may lead to drug and alcohol use and unsafe sexual practices.
ABC Australia
http://www.abc.net.au/science/articles/2009/07/02/2615039.htm
Modern Medicine
http://www.modernmedicine.com/modernmedicine/Welcome+to+ModernMedicine/
Inside-the-world-of-dangerous-teens/ArticleStandard/Article/detail/
608301?contextCategoryId=40137
Why Coleman Conceded
The Republican Party put an inordinate amount of faith in Norm Coleman’s long-shot legal challenge, spending a million bucks on the idea that he’d catch a break in court... “Norm Coleman is busted financially,” said Larry Jacobs, an expert on state politics at the University of Minnesota.
CBS News
http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2009/06/30/politics/politico/main5126560.shtml
Coleman bowing out of this race, but perhaps preparing for another soon
Norm Coleman looked almost serene as he stepped up to the cluster of microphones set up on his backyard patio and, with a three-minute speech, ended his eight-month election recount battle by conceding his former U.S. Senate seat to Al Franken... "He's increasingly attracted to the idea of running for governor," said Larry Jacobs, a University of Minnesota political science professor.
Star Tribune
http://www.startribune.com/politics/49558907.html?elr=
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More fit than fat: State's kids No. 1
Another victory of sorts for Lake Wobegon: Minnesota has the lowest rate of overweight children in the nation, according to a report on obesity in America... Jamie Stang, a dietician and obesity researcher at the University of Minnesota, said she's not surprised by the state's ranking.
Star Tribune
http://www.startribune.com/lifestyle/health/
49600902.html?elr=KArksi8cyaiUHK:uUiD3aPc:_Yyc:aUU
More Minnesota schools fall behind in math, reading
In Minneapolis, an initiative to improve schools on the North Side, which mostly serve African-American students, seems to be paying off in small amounts at the elementary schools... "There is enormous variation among districts and charter schools," in how they perform, said Joe Nathan, director of the Center for School Change at the University of Minnesota and a champion of charter schools.
Star Tribune
http://www.startribune.com/local/stpaul/49559342.html?page=3&c=y
Olson Joins Boies at Court So Gays May Marry as Right
Theodore Olson, the lawyer who won the 2000 Supreme Court case that made George W. Bush president, might have been the natural choice to argue in favor of California’s same-sex marriage ban... The court’s four more conservative members, Chief Justice John Roberts and Justices Antonin Scalia, Clarence Thomas and Samuel Alito, would reject same-sex marriage, said Dale Carpenter, a law professor at the University of Minnesota in Minneapolis.
Bloomberg
http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=20601087&sid=alsA242TePek
Seeking hope in a dose of green tea
Once a day, Matthew Hudson takes a square of chocolate mixed with green-tea extract and lets it dissolve in his mouth... So far, most have focused on how alternative therapies can help ease the pain or side effects of cancer treatment, says Mary Jo Kreitzer, director of the University of Minnesota's Center for Spirituality and Healing.
Cape Cod Online
http://www.capecodonline.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20090702/LIFE/907020302
New Study Shows Clothes Don't Make The Professor
It's not uncommon for UC Berkeley professor Randy Katz to come to class carrying a sword or fake grenades... The study, conducted by Yasmine L. Konheim-Kalkstein, a faculty instructor at the community college, Mark Stellmack, an instructor of the University of Minnesota and Amanda Miles, a graduate student at the University of Minnesota, was presented at the Association for Psychological Science and is in the process of being written.
Daily Californian
http://www.dailycal.org/article/106004/new_study_shows_clothes_don_t_make_the_professor
Study confirms increase in wheat gluten disorder
A Minnesota study using frozen blood samples taken from Air Force recruits 50 years ago has found that intolerance of wheat gluten, a debilitating digestive condition, is four times more common today than it was in the 1950s... Researchers at the Mayo Clinic and the University of Minnesota who conducted the study also found that the recruits who had the undiagnosed digestive disorder, called celiac disease, also had a four-fold increase in the risk of death.
Star Tribune
http://www.startribune.com/lifestyle/health/49558522.html?
elr=KArks7PYDiaK7DUvDE7aL_V_BD77:DiiUiD3aPc:_Yyc:aUU
Making A Bigger Splash In The Gene Pool, And How Delaying Reproduction Can Help
We humans have a strong urge to reproduce, but if the environment steers us into putting off having children, we may be rewarded with both longer life and a bigger genetic footprint in future generations... So concludes a new University of Minnesota study that reveals what may be a major force in shaping the evolution of most living things, including humans.
Science Daily
http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/07/090702090119.htm