MSU College of Human Medicine students Jordan Lippincott and Miriam Rienstra Bareman have been selected to serve on a national committee of the American Medical Association’s Medical Student Section.

My research and the lessons provided to me that year have inspired me to engage with leaders across the country to help them recognize their role in preventing sexual violence.

I joined the Sexual Assault Crisis Intervention Team in the fall of 2015, during the first semester of my freshman year. I had worked with survivors of domestic violence in high school through a student organization and for my Girl Scout Gold Award, and was drawn to the idea of continuing to help survivors at MSU.

People living with cystic fibrosis spend their lives battling chronic lung infections resistant to antibiotic therapy. A one-size-fits all approach to wiping out the bacterium may not be the best approach for all patients with the disease, according to a new study led by Pieter Dorrestein, a professor at the University of California San Diego, and Robert Quinn, an MSU researcher who conducted the research at UC San Diego.

A recent study, led by MSU researcher Laura McCabe, supports findings that a high-fat diet can negatively affect the bacterial composition of your intestine and decrease bone density, while exercise can counteract these harmful changes.

Children who receive less parental warmth and more harshness in their home environments may be more aggressive and may lack empathy and a moral compass, according to a study by researchers at MSU, the UPenn and U-M.

October 11 notes the arrival of the inaugural “Ombuds Day” as designated by the American Bar Association. For many, this day may not have grand recognition or fanfare, as the term “ombuds,” “ombudsman” or “ombudsperson” may seem alien in its pronunciation and in its role.

Most of us try to prevent mosquitoes from breeding in our own backyards, so why would a MSU researcher be happy about a factory capable of producing a million male mosquitoes a week?

Established five years ago, an MSU program, which focuses on autism and neurodevelopmental disability research and outreach, has officially achieved center status becoming C-RAIND, or the Center for Research in Autism, Intellectual and other Neurodevelopmental Disorders.

While studying ways to prevent suicide among recently released jail inmates, MSU researcher Jennifer Johnson began to notice that a growing number of opioid overdoses were not accidental.