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Researchers from the University of Minnesota School of Public Health (SPH) and Medical School found that 27- to 41-year olds who experienced kidney function decline tended to have accelerated progression to more severe chronic kidney…

Opioid use during pregnancy may lead to adverse long-term infant and child outcomes. Targeted public health strategies have been employed to reduce opioid use in reproductive-aged persons, but there has been a lack of research that…

With an emphasis on increasing student access, affordability and safety while maintaining the University of Minnesota’s world-class teaching and research, the Board of Regents today unanimously approved U of M President Joan Gabel’s…

Plants typically absorb carbon dioxide and release oxygen as part of photosynthesis. Most people associate greenery with reduced carbon levels, and in the case of Minnesota’s trees, that is certainly true. But in the thousands of…

Public health infrastructure in the U.S. has lost up to 20% of its practitioners since 2008. The COVID-19 pandemic overwhelmed the already underfunded and understaffed system, which presents a serious need to increase workforce capacity…

Text messages, app alerts and emails — so-called “digital nudges” — are effective at pushing us to do things, even exercise. New University of Minnesota research shows these actions used by corporate wellness programs lead to increased…

University of Minnesota Twin Cities researchers are leading a comprehensive global clinical study that seeks to reveal the functional effects of vagus nerve stimulation (VNS) across the human body. The Research Evaluating Vagal Excitation…

A team of researchers led by the University of Minnesota has released four more years of high-resolution imagery data, which has been added to eight years of previous data, to create the most detailed polar region terrain maps ever…

In March of 2020, America’s public health workforce was in the midst of a years-long decline in staffing levels that left the country painfully unprepared as the World Health Organization declared the COVID-19 outbreak a pandemic. New…

An international research team led by the University of Minnesota has measured the size of a star that exploded more than 11 billion years ago. Detailed images show the exploding star cooling and could help scientists learn more about the…