Virtual workshop on the National Neighborhood Data Archive (NaNDA), offering practical training on accessing, linking, and utilizing comprehensive U.S. neighborhood data for aging and population healt...

ANN ARBOR—With an $11 million award from the National Institute on Aging, University of Michigan researchers will build and share national data that track how neighborhood conditions change over time,...

ANN ARBOR—More than half of U.S. public parks are within two miles of an active industrial facility that handles toxic chemicals, according to a new University of Michigan study.About 80,000 such park...

Counties with easy access to weed have far fewer opioid deaths. That’s not a coincidence.

Evidence suggests that short-term exposures to extreme heat and/or cold are associated with cognitive decline in elderly people. The effects of long-t…

Background: Extreme heat risk assessments often rely on epidemiologic studies that used the nearest available outdoor airport temperatures (OATs) rather than individually-experienced temperatures (IET...

Older drivers with vision impairment are dramatically more likely to stop driving or avoid challenging road conditions—with severe cases four times more likely to give up driving altogether, a nationa...