News & Publications

The current outbreak of avian flu -- the largest in US history -- has affected more than 30 million poultry so far. An article in Science quotes Michael Osterholm, director of Consortium member center CIDRAP (Center for Infectious Disease Research and Policy), about the rapidly… Read more

A new study led by researchers at the University of Minnesota has found a three-way link among antibiotic use in infants, changes in the gut bacteria, and disease later in life. The imbalances in gut microbes have been tied to infectious diseases, allergies and other autoimmune disorders, and even… Read more

A startup based on research by researchers at the University of Minnesota's BioTechnology Institute, a Consortium member center, has landed its first research and development contract from a multibillion-dollar global company headquartered in Europe. Scientific… Read more

Today's New York Times describes new music highlighting areas of rapid climate change. An article in the university's environmental magazine, Ensia, published by Consortium member center Institute on the Environment (IoneE), describes the project and provides a link to… Read more

A group of University of Minnesota graduate students in law and health is conducting a study of high-frequency healthcare utilizers with funds obtained through the Consortium's Research Awards program. The grant is "Twin Cities High Utilizers: A Patient-Centered Approach to Address the… Read more

A Minnesota-based website dedicated to improving news coverage of health has been relaunched under the auspices of the University of Minnesota's School of Public Health. Health News Review was founded nine years ago by Gary Schwitzer, former head of the medical news unit at CNN… Read more

More than 5.3 million birds have been destroyed in an effort to control the virulent H5N2 avian flu, more than 2.6 million in Minnesota alone. The University of Minnesota's Center for Infectious Disease Research and Policy (CIDRAP) is working with researchers at the state and federal… Read more

Professor Susan M. Wolf was interviewed today by Kerri Miller on Minnesota Public Radio's Friday Roundtable regarding a New England Journal of Medicine article she co-authored examining 40 years of end-of-life policy work. Participants in the hour-long program … Read more

A University of Minnesota nutritional epidemiologist is among those taking issue with a New York Times op-ed claiming diets that are high in protein and fat are to blame for the rise in overweight Americans over the past several decades. Dean Ornish, the author of the essay,… Read more

Prof. Susan M. Wolf, JD, chair of the Consortium, was a plenary speaker at the 2015 Global Conference on Nanoengineering for Medicine and Biology. The event, held in Minneapolis beginning April 19, is sponsored by the American Society for Mechanical Engineers (ASME). In her talk… Read more