Much of the attention of the Risk Science Center faculty is focused, appropriately, on new and emerging technologies and their potential impacts on human health. However, as important and intriguing as these emerging issues are, it’s important to acknowledge that there are many existing hazards that we have known about for years, decades, and even [...]
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Health systems have experienced drug shortages of epic proportion in the last several years, and it has not shown sign of it slowing down. On a daily basis, health systems across the nation find themselves faced with the challenges of adequately managing an ever-growing number of new and existing drug shortages. In 2010, 211 drug [...]
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Earlier this spring, I found myself at a restaurant with a relatively large group of other public health students. I couldn’t help but notice that one of them added a liberal amount of salt to his already-well-seasoned French fries. “You’re an epidemiologist!” I exclaimed, as surprised as if I had just seen a PETA member [...]
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I’d like to begin my first-ever blog by noting what a tremendous honor and opportunity it is for me to join the faculty of the University of Michigan Risk Science Center. Risk has been a part of my life for years, from enjoying the board game Risk™ as a child, to taking every imaginable risk [...]
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Cross-posted from 2020 Science Tomorrow, I will be speaking at the Marshal M. Weinberg Seminar on Optogenetic Manipulation of the Brain at the University of Michigan – not a subject I must admit that I am that familiar with. Fortunately, there are other speakers who will be doing much of the heavy-lifting, including Karl Deisseroth [...]
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One of the most difficult lessons I try to teach the students in my health communication course is that providing less information can often be more effective than trying to be “comprehensive.” This fact is I think clearly shown in a paper that I wrote with Professor Peter Ubel and post-doctoral fellow Andrea Angott of [...]
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Nottasorn Plipat is a doctoral student in the University of Michigan School of Public Health, Department of Epidemiology. She received a 2007-2009 scholarship from the Interdisciplinary Training Program in Infectious Disease at the Center for Molecular and Clinical Epidemiology of Infectious Diseases (MACEPID) and currently is a graduate student research assistant at the Center for [...]
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Lauretta Ovadje is a doctoral student in the University of Michigan School of Public Health, Department of Environmental Health Sciences. She is a recipient of a 2011 Risk Science Summer fellowship, and will be using the fellowship to support her research on the use of insecticide treated nets to prevent malaria in Nigeria. Why don’t [...]
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Julia Diebol is a doctoral student in the University of Michigan School of Public Health, Department of Environmental Health Sciences. She is a recipient of a 2011 Risk Science Summer fellowship. Communities all over the world face challenges of assessing health risks from chemical contaminants and deciding whether cleanup efforts should be undertaken. While many [...]
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Several months ago, I was asked by a colleague if I fancied co-authoring a review on nanotoxicology for a copy of Toxicological Sciences celebrating the 50th anniversary of the Society of Toxicology (coming out later this year). Fool that I am, I agreed. Interestingly though, as I and my co-authors (Martin Philbert and David Warheit) [...]
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Each summer, the Risk Science Center supports a number of graduate students in their research, through the Risk Science Center Fellowship Fund. This year, we had eleven strong applications for the fellowships. After review, the five successful candidates were:
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Lisa Prosser is an Associate Professor in Department of Pediatrics and Communicable Diseases and an Associate Professor (secondary) in the Department of Health Management and Policy at the University of Michigan. She is a member of the University of Michigan Risk Science Center. My research focuses primarily on evaluating the cost-effectiveness of prevention programs – [...]
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Jitters and Stained Teeth, but Cancer-Free? Some Surprising Effects of Coffee Consumption
by Lindsay Ward on May 20, 2011
The fact that phrases like “guilty pleasure” and “too much of a good thing” are so ubiquitous in the contemporary American vocabulary suggests a significant truth about our collective cultural psyche: we know—even if we don’t always accept—that even pleasant things can have negative consequences when consumed immoderately. Flying in the face of this conventional [...]
Tagged as: caffine, Cancer, coffee
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