News from the University of Michigan Health System en-us http://www.med.umich.edu/news Copyright 2011, The University of Michigan jesssoul@med.umich.edu (Jessica Soulliere) wkolcz@med.umich.edu (Wally Kolcz) Tue, 08 Feb 2011 15:36:28 EST http://www.med.umich.edu/1images/2logo.gif http://www.med.umich.edu The University of Michigan Health System is migrating its RSS news feeds to a new server, and streamlining the number of feeds offered.'nbsp;Anyone currently subscribing to the older'nbsp;RSS feeds'nbsp;should visit http://www.uofmhealth.org/News/RSS'nbsp;immediately to subscribe to one or more of the new feeds. http://www2.med.umich.edu/prmc/media/newsroom/details.cfm?ID=1915 http://www2.med.umich.edu/prmc/media/newsroom/details.cfm?ID=1915 Tue, 08 Feb 2011 15:28:00 EST Clinical Trials Are some children genetically tuned to be overweight, or is lifestyle to blame for childhood obesity? Check-ups of 1,003 Michigan sixth graders in a school-based health program showed obese children tend to have the same habits, such as eating school lunch and spending two hours or more watching TV or video games. The University of Michigan Cardiovascular Center published the study as the country looks for new ways to reduce childhood obesity. http://www2.med.umich.edu/prmc/media/newsroom/details.cfm?ID=1913 http://www2.med.umich.edu/prmc/media/newsroom/details.cfm?ID=1913 Mon, 31 Jan 2011 08:00:00 EST All University of Michigan Diabetes Center to provide free health screenings, interactive booths on diabetes prevention and treatment and registration for clinical studies seeking participants http://www2.med.umich.edu/prmc/media/newsroom/details.cfm?ID=1784 http://www2.med.umich.edu/prmc/media/newsroom/details.cfm?ID=1784 Wed, 27 Oct 2010 16:00:00 EST Events Phone calls with a peer facing the same self-management challenges helped diabetes patients manage their conditions and improved their blood sugar levels better than those who used traditional nurse care management services alone, according to research from the University of Michigan Health System. http://www2.med.umich.edu/prmc/media/newsroom/details.cfm?ID=1771 http://www2.med.umich.edu/prmc/media/newsroom/details.cfm?ID=1771 Mon, 18 Oct 2010 17:00:00 EST All ANN ARBOR, Mich. 'ndash; University of Michigan scientists have identified events inside insulin-producing pancreatic cells that set the stage for a neonatal form of non-autoimmune Type 1 diabetes, and may play a role in Type 2 diabetes as well. http://www2.med.umich.edu/prmc/media/newsroom/details.cfm?ID=1758 http://www2.med.umich.edu/prmc/media/newsroom/details.cfm?ID=1758 Mon, 11 Oct 2010 17:00:00 EST All Diabetes hospitalizations for young adults have doubled since the 1990s and shows a shift in the burden of diabetes.'nbsp;The pattern echos the increases in rates of obesity across the United States and'nbsp;predicts a growing financial burden for the nation'#39;s insurers http://www2.med.umich.edu/prmc/media/newsroom/details.cfm?ID=1757 http://www2.med.umich.edu/prmc/media/newsroom/details.cfm?ID=1757 Mon, 11 Oct 2010 16:00:00 EST All Researchers at the University of Michigan'rsquo;s Brehm Center for Diabetes Research have received a $3.3 million grant from the National Institutes of Health that could lead to new drug targets for early treatment of type 1 diabetes.'nbsp;'nbsp; http://www2.med.umich.edu/prmc/media/newsroom/details.cfm?ID=1715 http://www2.med.umich.edu/prmc/media/newsroom/details.cfm?ID=1715 Wed, 15 Sep 2010 12:00:00 EST All The University of Michigan received a $5.7 million grant to establish the Michigan Nutrition Obesity Research Center, one of only 13 federally funded centers that focus on studies related to diet and metabolism. MNORC will provide researchers with access to core laboratories with the tools and personnel to examine metabolism in people and at the cellular level through basic, clinical and population-based studies. http://www2.med.umich.edu/prmc/media/newsroom/details.cfm?ID=1686 http://www2.med.umich.edu/prmc/media/newsroom/details.cfm?ID=1686 Wed, 18 Aug 2010 13:00:00 EST All Body mass index, a well-known method used to determine overweight and obesity in children, may not be the best way to describe distribution of body fat. Rather the size of a child'rsquo;s neck may better predict childhood obesity, according to a study by the University of Michigan Health System. http://www2.med.umich.edu/prmc/media/newsroom/details.cfm?ID=1647 http://www2.med.umich.edu/prmc/media/newsroom/details.cfm?ID=1647 Thu, 08 Jul 2010 00:00:00 EST All Martin G. Myers Jr., M.D., PhD., of the University of Michigan Comprehensive Diabetes Center, will receive the American Diabetes Association'rsquo;s prestigious Outstanding Scientific Achievement Award during the association'rsquo;s 70^th scientific sessions in Orlando, Florida June 25-29. It'#39;s the world'#39;s largest diabetes meeting and Myers will be honored for his work that helped build the framework for understanding how the fat hormone leptin regulates metabolism. http://www2.med.umich.edu/prmc/media/newsroom/details.cfm?ID=1623 http://www2.med.umich.edu/prmc/media/newsroom/details.cfm?ID=1623 Wed, 23 Jun 2010 08:00:00 EST All