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If you search the Internet for advice on treating your health problems, much of what you get may be inaccurate, inappropriate, misleading or unreviewed by doctors.

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University of Michigan scientists have identified two segments of DNA that work together to produce a steady increase in the capacity of blood to coagulate as we age.

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A new study shows that adding an established medication to standard treatment regimens for heart failure reduced deaths by 30 percent. While the article will not appear in a journal until later this year, the lifesaving potential of the information caused the editorial staff to post the findings on its Internet site, www.nejm.org.

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A mathematical model, based on experimental evidence, of the symbiotic relationship between H.pylori bacterium and their human hosts.

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University of Michigan scientists have found that salicylate---the active component of ordinary aspirin---can prevent deafness in guinea pigs exposed to a common class of antibiotics that destroy delicate hair cells in the inner ear.

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An antiviral drug administered once daily during flu outbreaks may be useful in preventing type A and B influenza, according to a new University of Michigan School of Public Health study.

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"Doctors already act collectively and can do so morally. But the goal of collective action must be completely consistent with their commitment to the patient."

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Researchers at the University of Michigan and the University of Freiberg in Germany have demonstrated that blocking a substance the body normally produces to help fight bacteria shows great promise in animal studies as a potential treatment for sepsis.

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Women with common urinary tract infections can safely get the same diagnosis and prescription over the phone, leading to identical relief with far less hassle and cost, a new study finds.

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Patients undergoing cardiac surgery twice as likely to experience certain complications when their pre-surgical potassium levels are low.

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In a paper published in the June 17 issue of Nature, U-M scientist describe how localization errors made by nerve cells in the brains of cats exposed to filtered sounds are consistent with errors made by humans in previous experiments.

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Researchers at the University of Michigan and the KHC National Center of Cancer Control in Haifa, Israel, have been awarded a $4.8 million grant to study genetic aspects of colon cancer.

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How much time U.S. children spend with their fathers, and what they do together.

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Two University of Michigan students have proposed a disease prevention program that is designed to encourage teen girls on Depo-Provera to use condoms and to educate them about sexually transmitted diseases.

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Kofi Annan, secretary-general of the United Nations, and Shirley M. Malcom, director of education and human resources at the American Association for the Advancement of Science, will gave commencement addresses at the University of Michigan graduation ceremonies April 30-May 2.

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U-M psychologist says working mothers are more likely to use an authoritative approach that relies on reason rather than assertions of parental power and encourages both girls and boys to be independent.

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A new book co-authored by a U-M professor of education explores the history of high school in America.

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When religion is an important part of a mother's life, she's likely to feel she has a better relationship with her adult children, and her children are likely to report having a better relationship with her.

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U-M study says the elderly consume recommended dietary allowances of iron, zinc and magnesium, but nutritional supplements and drugs can offset the balance of these nutrients.

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April 7 is World Health Day, "Healthy Aging, Healthy Living---Start Now!" April 5-11 is National Public Health Week, "Healthy People in Healthy Communities."

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University of Michigan scientists have solved the mystery behind folic acid's ability to reduce amounts of a compound called homocysteine, which is associated with an increased risk of heart attacks, strokes and birth defects in humans.

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U-M scientists report in Nature Medicine that UV irradiation blocks the ability of skin cells to recognize and respond to retinoic acid.

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Astronomers from the University of Michigan and the Department of Energy's Los Alamos and Livermore National Laboratories will describe these new details---including their measurements of the brightest optical celestial object ever recorded---in the science journal Nature.

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Marriages of older women who have their own pensions are more than twice as likely to end as the marriages of older women without pensions, according to researchers at the University of Michigan.

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University of Michigan scientists have put a new spin on an old technology by using xenon to generate the first high-resolution magnetic resonance images of the heart and lung tissue in a living laboratory rat.

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The presence of nurse practitioners and physician assistants, and the debate that surrounds it, is the subject of a new study by a U-Michigan researcher.

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Innovative new robot developed by Mobile Robotics Lab at the University of Michigan navigates the same way. Rather than using sensors to detect signposts along its path or following a wire in the floor, OmniMate uses very precise odometers on four of its 12 wheels to figure distance and direction.

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A new analysis of the human brain at work, to be published in the March 12 issue of Science, elucidates how the frontal lobes are organized, providing strong evidence that verbal and spatial memories are processed in different hemispheres.

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A new University of Michigan study documents the link between moderate levels of volunteer activity and increased chances of survival.

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Economic barriers keep more African Americans away from the dentist for routine care than whites, a new U-Michigan study shows.

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U-M ichigan researchers present the results of experiments testing the effectiveness of the vaccine/IL-2 combination on laboratory mice with large, advanced sarcomas or breast cancers.

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According to University of Michigan researchers, the Protestant ethic also makes overweight women feel bad about themselves.

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Researchers at the University of Michigan have completed a study that provides compelling clinical and economic evidence for population-based Helicobactor pylori (H pylori) screening to reduce the risk of gastric cancer.

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Women who are physically active before and after the birth of a child not only retain less weight after the birth, but tend to remain socially active and feel better about themselves in the postpartum months, according to a new University of Michigan study.

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The cause of much of the conflict between the sexes isn't just that men are not monogamous. According to a University of Michigan author, the underlying trouble is that we humans are anisogamous---we have sex cells of unequal size.

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A University of Michigan team has found that a natural substance known as vascular endothelial growth factor contributes to angiogenesis not only by stimulating blood vessel growth, but also by prolonging the survival of blood vessel cells.

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Scientists from the University of Michigan and Utrecht University have located a piece of Earth's ancient history buried 1,550 miles below its surface.

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The three-year study, called the Palliative Care Project, challenges the current model of medical care in which terminally ill patients must choose between continued medical treatment from conventional health care providers and the supportive benefits of hospice care.

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Astronomers have detected the cool infrared signature of dust grains and silicates within superheated gas in the center of ancient elliptical galaxies 60 million light-years from Earth. This is the first direct observation that could indicate how mass lost by aging stars evolves in a hot, exotic environment.

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University of Michigan scientists conclude in their 1998 national survey that illicit drug use by this population is finally heading down after six years of steady increases.

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Smoking rates among secondary school students have started to turn downward.

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Scientists at the University of Michigan College of engineering observed and recorded the relativistic motion of free electrons in the electromagnetic fields of light.

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The study examine the normal changes the heart goes through in the aging process.

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On Thursday (Dec. 3), when Space Shuttle Endeavour blasts off from Kennedy Space Center in Cape Canaveral, Fla., its payload will include an experiment designed and built by University of Michigan students.

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University of Michigan study shows that the total energy used during the life of a typical home in the U.S. heartland could be reduced by 65 percent while also reducing the home's long-term cost by approximately $52,000

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Litigation alone won't solve the problem and may not be the best way to change tobacco control policy, according to a new University of Michigan study.

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The following University of Michigan School of Public Health researchers will present their work at the annual meeting of the American Public Health Association, Nov. 15-19, in Washington, D.C.

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American children spend 1.3 hours a week reading, 1.7 hours studying, and 12 hours a week---one- quarter of their free time---watching television, according to a University of Michigan study that provides the first look since 1981 at how U.S. children spend their time.

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University of Michigan scientists have developed a new generation of "gutted" viral vectors that deliver the gene for dystrophin to the muscles of adult mice with muscular dystrophy without triggering their immune systems.

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University of Michigan scientists have discovered evidence, recorded in 12,000-year-old Lake Huron glacial sediments, for brief, sudden episodes of rapid warming at the end of the last Ice Age which melted glaciers.