Research

If your bladder leaks when you cough, sneeze or laugh, or every time you come home–-even if you left 10 minutes ago––you’re not alone.

Female Olympian handballers fined for playing in shorts instead of bikini bottoms. A female Paralympian told by a championship official that her shorts were “too short and inappropriate.” Olympic women gymnasts, tired of feeling sexualized, opted for full-length unitards instead of bikini-cut leotards.

“Women athletes’ attire is constantly scrutinized,” said Philip Veliz of the University of Michigan School of Nursing. “No one has ever said that a baseball or football player’s pants are too tight.”

Most people have heard of human trafficking, but few can define it. Even experts in law enforcement and academia can have a hard time quantifying the problem.

The COVID-19 pandemic fueled an acute, countrywide need for registered nurses, and this underscored the need for clear staffing plans and an assessment of what, exactly, the registered nursing workforce looks like.

Community engagement isn’t common practice in cancer research. When the Henry Ford Cancer Institute wanted to connect with their Detroit community on research to dramatically improve the representation of African Americans and other minorities in cancer clinical trials, they turned to experts at the University of Michigan, including leading nurse scientists from the School of Nursing.

A new project led by U-M School of Nursing Assistant Professor Marie-Anne Sanon Rosemberg, Ph.D., RN, has been selected to receive funding through a Graham Sustainability Institute catalyst grant, which provides support for small-scale, collaborative, interdisciplinary

“If our work as researchers took up space in the same way art does, that could help the people we work with feel seen.

There are roughly 3 million nurses working in the United States, making it the country’s largest health care workforce—85% of whom are women. According to a

About 11% of women who carry to term will experience prelabor rupture of membrane—a condition where the amniotic sac breaks open early, but labor doesn’t begin.

Adolescents who vape cannabis are at greater risk for respiratory symptoms indicative of lung injury than teens who smoke cigarettes or marijuana, or vape nicotine, a new University of Michigan study suggests.

The result challenges conventional wisdom about vaping nicotine, says the study’s principal investigator, Carol Boyd, the Deborah J. Oakley Collegiate Professor Emerita at the U-M School of Nursing.