If you have high cholesterol in your 30s and 40s there is an increased risk of heart disease later in life, according to a new study. Researchers from Duke University say that even slightly high cholesterol levels in otherwise healthy adults between the ages of 35 and 55 can have long-term impacts on their heart. Every decade of high cholesterol increases the chances of heart disease by about 40 percent. Wayne State University cardiologist Joel Kahn said that high cholesterol is usually a result of lifestyle. "Very little of it is genetic. it's sitting too much, eating too many processed foods," Kahn said. "Every meal should have brightly colored fruits and vegetables." The researchers say younger adults should work on diet and exercise first, but if that alone isn't working they may benefit from taking medication earlier in life.

Of all the programs and initiatives designed to invite talented young professionals to work in Detroit, most desire a simple outcome: that those people, whether they come from somewhere else or are natives to Detroit, stay and continue to make an impact while building a life in the city. Such has been the case with Regina Ann Campbell, Beau Taylor, and Bradford. All three were Detroit Revitalization Fellows, a Wayne State University leadership program that selects mid-career professionals to help stimulate growth in Detroit's civic, community, and economic development sectors. The fellows work full time with partner organizations as part of their two year commitment. Campbell, Taylor, and Frost were part of the first cohort of fellows, which began in 2011 and ended in 2013. They remained in Detroit after the fellowship term ended, and all three continue to work in the city.

The Detroit Revitalization Fellows program at Wayne State University will begin accepting applications for its new class of activists who want to work on improving Detroit. Past fellows created projects such as REVOLVE Detroit (revitalizing empty storefronts), Motor City Mapping (cataloging vacant properties) and Source Detroit (promoting the idea of buying local). Twenty fellows will work two years with a Detroit agency or organization, or even city government. In the past, some of these leaders came from communities in other states. But this year, program organizers are making a particular effort to find fellows in Detroit while continuing to accept former Detroiters who want to come home. Most fellows have a graduate degree and have been working for at least five years. "Being a Detroit Revitalization Fellow is a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to impact the future of our city," says Graig Donnelly, the program's director. "Fellows will spend their time digging deep into neighborhoods and projects, making meaningful connections with one another and their communities."

A few weeks ago, at the beginning of national Human Trafficking Awareness Month, at seamy metro Detroit motels where rooms rent by the hour, Aleksandra Andjelkovic and other members of the Grosse Pointe Soroptimists came calling. The Soroptimists brought flyers bearing information about Michigan runaways, and they offered the proprietors specially-wrapped bars of soap. Save some money by placing these bars of soap in each room, the Soroptimists pitched the motels. ... And maybe save a life, the volunteers said. The Grosse Pointe Soroptimists are cosponsoring a Human Trafficking Forum 5:30-7:30 p.m. Feb. 10 at the Wayne State University Center Ballroom. Among the speakers are representatives from the State Attorney General's Office and local agencies that help human trafficking victims. The event is free and open to the public and does not require registration.

Across the country, art walks are becoming a very popular way for tourists and residents of different cities to see all of the art their city has to offer. Whether you're interested in staying within Detroit, or heading out across the metro area, here are some of Southeastern Michigan's best art walks. The Wayne State University Art Walk takes place across the Midtown Detroit campus of Wayne State University. It is an unorganized art walk, so feel free to stop by and take a stroll whenever you like. Much of this walk involves crossing to buildings through the outdoors, so nicer weather is the best option here.

Gov. Rick Snyder said Thursday that the education reforms expected to unfold in Detroit could serve as a template for other communities across Michigan. First, those reforms have to take shape. Snyder said that whatever reforms will be enacted in Detroit, especially when it comes to improving academic achievement and transparency, could be replicated elsewhere. Tom Pedroni, an associate professor of curriculum studies at Wayne State University, isn't convinced that the coalition's model can be replicated across the state. Other communities in the nation - including New Orleans and Newark, N.J. - have used common enrollment systems but the research has been mixed on whether it's worked. The coalition, he said, will need to explain the research behind whatever recommendations it makes. "If anything, I think Detroit should be looking to successful models in other parts of Michigan," Pedroni said.

Theatre reviewer Patty Nolan gives a thumbs-up to the Hillberry Theatre production of "The Way of the World:" Nolan writes: "Verbal sparring is a lost art form, but if you want to see it at its best (along with some physical sparring), go see the Restoration comedy "The Way of the World" at WSU's Hilberry Theatre. William Congreve's masterpiece, directed by one of the area's finest, Lavinia Hart, is so captivating that you may forget you're getting schooled."

Hundreds of ancient papyrus scrolls that were buried nearly 2,000 years ago after the eruption of Mount Vesuvius could finally be read, thanks to a new technique. The X-ray-based method can be used to decipher the charred, damaged texts that were found in the ancient town of Herculaneum without having to unroll them, which could damage them beyond repair, scientists say. Historians have tried many ingenious (and some not-so-ingenious) methods for reading the damaged scrolls. "They poured mercury on them, they soaked them in rosewater - all kinds of crazy stuff," said Jennifer Sheridan Moss, a papyrologist at Wayne State University and the president of the American Society of Papyrologists. The texts on the scrolls are unlikely to yield earth-shattering insights, given how many of the other scrolls have been deciphered, Moss said. But the new technique holds promise for other burnt papyri as well, Moss said.

After reviewing the histories of more than 2,000 American children who were treated with antibiotics for bone infections, a national team of pediatric researchers has come up with a surprising finding that could change the way kids receive the drugs in the future. The large study found that children who were discharged home with oral antibiotics did just as well in overcoming their bone infections as those who were sent home on intravenous antibiotics. Said Children's Hospital of Michigan Chief of Pediatric Hospital Medicine and Assistant Professor of Pediatrics for the Wayne State University School of Medicine Banu Kumar, M.D., who led the Children's Hospital of Michigan group participating in this study, "This very large clinical trial shows that oral antibiotics also cause significantly fewer complications and that there is no advantage of the more invasive prolonged intravenous therapy. Based on these very hopeful findings, clinicians who treat pediatric bone infections may want to reconsider prescribing intravenous delivery of antibiotics for patients who are being sent home for extended drug therapy."

Jela Ellefson, Michael Madej and Amber Gladney all have something in common, they came back to their home base and became Detroit Revitalization Fellows, a Wayne State University leadership program that selects mid-career professionals to help stimulate growth in Detroit's community and economic development sectors. And all three, thanks in large part to the Fellowship, were able to move back home and take fulltime jobs with partner organizations over the Fellowship's two year commitment. In January 2011, Ellefson applied to be part of the first cohort of Detroit Revitalization Fellows and was accepted into the program after an interview in May of that year. By late summer, she was back to begin her two-year commitment with the Eastern Market Corporation (EMC) as the organization's chief operations officer. Madej applied to be part of the second Detroit fellows cohort, was accepted, and began working for the Greening of Detroit as the nonprofit's community engagement manager in late summer 2013. Gladney applied to be part of the second Detroit Revitalization Fellows cohort. She received an offer from Invest Detroit and began working as a project coordinator in late summer 2013.

Every year teen poets from the InsideOut Literary Arts Project write and perform a poem about race, society and civil rights, to honor the memory and work of Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. Justin Rogers, Kennedie King, and Arzelia Williams shared about their work and the meaning surrounding the poem they wrote and performed for Wayne State University's Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. Tribute Luncheon.

Baseball players will have an opportunity to receive instruction from a Major League baseball player, as former Wayne State University pitcher, who is signed to play with the Texas Rangers for the upcoming season, is scheduled to be a part of the third annual Anthony Bass Pitching Camp Jan. 24 at the Multipurpose Indoor Facility at Wayne State. The camp is scheduled to take place from 10 a.m. to 1 p.m., with a "fundamental emphasis involving several aspects associated with the pitching position," with significance placed on "pitching development, mechanics, and concepts involved for success on the mound." Bass is the highest Major League Baseball draft pick in Wayne State history, earning Pitcher of the Year honors from Rawlings/ABCA, as well as a Gold Glove for outstanding defense. He was also named GLIAC Conference Pitcher of the Year and first team All-GLIAC.

Associate Professor of Communication, Fred Vultee, discussed, with WDET "Detroit Today" host Stephen Henderson the role and history of satire in journalism. The first issue of France's "Charlie Hebdo," since the recent armed attack upon the magazine, was sold today. Vultee talked about the history of satire in society and if it - along with lampooning and humor - plays a part in how we consume and react to news.

Are you determined to start the new year with a new improved personal agenda? Don't let a laundry list of resolutions get in the way of starting 2015 off right. Tip No. 1: Walk more and pick up the pace. This is one improvement everyone can adopt. Simply moving more quickly and more frequently can have a positive impact on your overall health, said Dr. Barry Franklin, director of the Cardiac Rehabilitation Program and Exercise Laboratories at Beaumont Hospital in Royal Oak. "First and foremost, get in the habit of increasing your walking pace. Walk fast, like you are late for an appointment," said Franklin, a professor of physiology at Wayne State University's School of Medicine, adding that recent studies indicate that how fast you walk is a simple indicator of health in middle-aged adults. Franklin recommends a walking pace of somewhere between 3-3.5 mph. Just this modest increase in pace can lead to a big payoff for your health, with the greatest benefits being realized by those making a change from "doing nothing to doing something."

In many cases, treatments other than hysterectomies could be offered to women with benign gynecologic conditions, according to research published online Dec. 23 in the American Journal of Obstetrics & Gynecology. Lauren E. Corona, of Wayne State University in Detroit, and colleagues analyzed data for 3,397 women who underwent hysterectomies for benign indications, including uterine fibroids, abnormal uterine bleeding (AUB), endometriosis, or pelvic pain, at 52 hospitals in a statewide collaborative. The researchers found that no alternative treatment was documented prior to hysterectomy for 37.7 percent of patients. "This study provides evidence that alternatives to hysterectomy are underutilized in women undergoing hysterectomy for AUB, uterine fibroids, endometriosis, or pelvic pain," the authors write.

The Wayne State University business school is in very early discussions about moving downtown into either a new building or leasing space there, and one of the issues that could come into play are naming rights - either for the building, or even the school itself, said business school Dean Robert Forsythe. At WSU, the $42 million A. Paul Schaap Chemistry Building and Lecture Hall received $10 million from the A. Paul and Carol C. Schaap Fund, part of the Community Foundation for Southeast Michigan, according to Mike Brinich, WSU associate director of communications. And WSU's $64.3 million Eugene Applebaum College of Pharmacy and Health Sciences building received $5 million from Applebaum, the founder of Arbor Drug Stores, which was later sold to CVS. Forsythe declined to say whom the WSU business school has spoken with about a possible downtown relocation. "You can probably guess who they are, but I'm not going to tell you," he said.

Hayley Thompson, an associate professor at the Barbara Ann Karmanos Cancer Institute and department of oncology at Wayne State University, was awarded a $1.8 million grant from the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality. The grant will be used to study how Internet-based and mobile technologies are used by cancer survivors once their treatment has ended. Charles Schiffer, multidisciplinary team leader of malignant hematology at Karmanos Cancer Institute and professor of medicine and oncology at Wayne State University School of Medicine, was named as the first endowed Joseph Dresner chair for Hematologic Malignancies at the Karmanos Cancer Institute. He is an expert in leukemia, myelodysplasia and transfusion supportive care, as well as other hematologic cancers. The position was created with a $5.3-million grant from the Dresner Foundation, which will be distributed to the institute during the next five years.

Jerry Herron, dean of the Irvin D. Reid Honors College, talked with WJR's Warren Pierce about the 2015 Top Ten Word Warriors list. Herron reviewed the year's selected words and explained their meanings and usage.

The American Lightweight and Modern Metals Manufacturing Institute, or ALMMII, will officially open in Corktown Thursday with a ribbon-cutting ceremony featuring Mayor Mike Duggan, the institute's executive director and others. ALMMII - led by the University of Michigan; the Columbus, Ohio-based manufacturing technology nonprofit EWI; and Ohio State University - is opening in a 99,000-square-foot building at 1400 Rosa Parks Blvd. The $148 million development was expected to be located in Canton, but German 3-D printing company Voxeljet AG leased the space that the institute wanted in the Haggerty II Corporate Park near Haggerty Road and Michigan Avenue. The institute will be funded with a $70 million, five-year grant from the defense department and $78 million from a consortium of 70-plus universities, business and organizations. Along with UM, Michigan State University and Wayne State University are also part of the consortium.

An exhaustive analysis of data from more than 40,000 cases of brain trauma in children - published by the authoritative New England Journal of Medicine - provides convincing evidence that protecting children in advance from head injuries is the key to reducing their severity. The new findings, obtained during one of the largest multi-center prospective studies of its kind ever conducted in the United States, show that the most common cause of brain injury among children younger than 12 is falling - typically from a moving bicycle, scooter or other wheeled device. "We studied a very large cohort of patients in our secondary analysis of this previously collected data," said Dr. Mahajan, professor of pediatrics and emergency medicine at the Wayne State University School of Medicine, "and the good news for all of us is that they demonstrate clearly the importance of prevention in protecting children from brain trauma. The bottom line on this prospective study of more than 43,000 pediatric brain injuries is that it identifies falls - often from bicycles - as the major cause of trauma in children under age 12. Knowing that, we're now better able to help educate parents and policymakers alike about the great value of safety helmets for this population of kids."