This article focuses on results of a study headed by Dr. Jack D. Sobel, professor and chief of the Division of Infectious Diseases at the WSU School of Medicine. The study found that Pfizer's Vfend antifungal treatment is an effective treatment for patients with candidemia, an often-fatal hospital-acquired bloodstream infection. "Because of Vfend's broad spectrum of activity against infections caused by yeasts and moulds, it is a good first-choice treatment option for immunocompromised patients who are at risk for those types of infection," Sobel said. Results of the study also appeared in several other online medical newsletters.

Wayne State 's Merrill-Palmer Institute will host a lecture on Detroit 's freight car manufacturing history on Nov. 10 at 7 p.m. The event is free and open to the public.

Detroit gets most of the attention because of its size, but many Michigan cities are facing unprecedented fiscal crises due to cuts in state funding, rising costs and a dismal economy. To do more with less, local leaders need to look beyond their borders, as dozens of Michigan municipal officials learned this week at a Creating Collaborative Communities conference sponsored by Wayne State University 's Department of Political Science and the Michigan Suburbs Alliance.

Spinal cord patient Charlie Parkhill has pursued an exhaustive course of physical therapy in his efforts to recover from his paralyzing injury. Using these methods for spinal patients is difficult because insurance coverage is scant, and insurers are prejudiced about accidental injuries vs. injuries resulting from violent crimes. "There's a huge difference" in what insurance will pay for," said Cathy Lysack, associate professor of gerontology and an occupational therapist at Wayne State .

The GLIAC segment of a weekend football roundup article includes a brief write-up about Wayne State 's 28-14 loss at Hillsdale. Chris Middlebrooks led the Warriors in yardage with 150 and a TD on 23 carries. Quarterback Nolan Martin completed 12 of 16 passes, including one to Nick Body for a score.

Freep published a box titled "State Tuition Rates" detailing the cost of tuition at the state's major universities. Source: President's Council, State Universities of Michigan .

Joan Mahoney, professor of law, commented in a story about a 1931 law that outlaws cohabitation between unmarried persons barring a Ferndale father from keeping his children in the house with his live-in girlfriend. "Given the number of people who now live together it seems like a backward-looking decision," Mahoney said. The father plans to take the issue - that could affect thousands of people in Michigan - to the Supreme Court.

This report gives a brief summary of the WSU men's hockey team's 3-3 tie with Niagara University in New York . Goaltender Matt Kelly turned aside 39 shots in the overtime game.

WSU law professor Joan Mahoney is quoted in an article about a Michigan Court of Appeals decision that says a divorced father cannot allow his girlfriend to be in the home overnight when his young daughters are visiting. The appellate decision is based on a 1931 law outlawing cohabitation. Mahoney says the ruling is "contrary to most trends in family law." She adds, "I find it somewhat troubling, given the number of people who now live together. It seems like a backward-looking decision."

For every cell in your body, you support 10 bacterial cells that make vitamins, trigger hormones and may even influence how fat you are; guess what happens when you take penicillin? Alan Hudson, of Wayne State's Medical School says microbes that were once thought to be eliminated by antibiotics can still thrive in the body, and that raises disturbing questions about how best to treat infections. He has found Chlamydia in arthritic knees, pneumonia in Alzheimer's patient's brains and common mouth bacteria in the arterial plaque of heart attack patients. So physicians crank up the antibiotics, but they may be killing the good germs with the bad. The article includes a photo of Hudson in his lab at Wayne State .

Some attorneys are baffled by a recent Michigan Court of appeals decision that a divorced Ferndale father cannot allow his girlfriend to spend the night when his daughters are visiting. Joan Mahoney, professor of law at Wayne State , commenting on the unusual ruling said she finds it "contrary to most trends in family law."

Specialists from across southeastern Michigan , including Wayne State University and the University of Michigan , will present broad range of topics on female malignancies in the Mercy Regional Cancer Center in Port Huron .

Suzanne Newsome has been named career counselor at the Wayne State University Law School . She is a 2004 graduate of the Law School .

Two brief stories on WSU art exhibits. "Susan Unterberg: A Retrospective," a well-known New York photographer has a show of her work at the Elaine L. Jacob Gallery, and leading fiber artist and WSU professor Urban Jupena's show -- "Urban Jupena Sabbatical Exhibition" -- is at the Community Arts Gallery.

When Hurricane Katrina destroyed much of New Orleans two months ago, another impoverished, mostly black city stepped in to help. Detroit Mayor Kwame Kilpatrick pledged that his city would host 500 families displaced from the Gulf Coast . The offer came as Detroit found itself facing another crisis, the latest in a half-century of problems that mirror those of New Orleans : poverty, crime, poor schools, white flight. Most pressing now is the city\'s dire financial situation. The Motor City faces an accumulated $300 million budget deficit and could go broke in 2006, its auditor general warned recently. Since July 1, 500 city workers have been let go, including police and firefighters. More layoffs are possible. The bad news comes just three months before Detroit will be on the world stage when it hosts Super Bowl XL on Feb. 5. Detroit once was the heart of the USA \'s industrial might and a symbol of its blue-collar middle class, but the city has been in steep decline for decades. Detroit \'s population has shrunk 50% from 1.8 million in 1950 to just over 900,000 in 2004, bumping it off the list of the nation\'s 10 most populous cities. \"We\'re just as flooded as New Orleans , except we are not waving white flags from the roof,\" says Robin Boyle, professor of urban planning at Detroit \'s Wayne State University .

City council candidates:Terry Margolis She has lived in Novi for 11 years and is the immediate past president of the library board. In her position as the head of the corporate consulting division at the Wayne State University School of Business, she works every day with business leaders to help them run their organizations more effectively. Thus, she believes she has the skills and abilities that will help move the city forward as it approaches buildout. She thinks roads, water and sewer are the most important aspects for city government to focus on, as well as public safety and balancing development with the need for green space. Other areas she would like to see the city focus on are recreation and cultural offerings, including senior services. She also feels that office service technology development will have the lowest impact on city services.

The National Legal and Policy Center (NLPC) announced today that they plan to file a formal Complaint with the Federal Election Commission (FEC) against Sean 'Diddy' Combs. Also named as a Respondent is Citizen Change, an organization founded by Combs that sponsored the 'Vote or Die' Campaign during last year\'s presidential election. NLPC alleges that Combs and Citizen Change appear to have violated the Federal Election Campaign Act (FECA) and the Internal Revenue Service Code by promoting the election of John Kerry and the defeat of George Bush. NLPC alleges that while Citizen Change appeared to promote voter mobilization, consistent with the activities of a nonprofit organization, the organization actually engaged in prohibited electioneering activities. The Complaint cites Citizen Change rallies where speakers called for the election of Kerry and the defeat of Bush, including an event on October 26, 2004 at Wayne State University where actor Leonardo DiCaprio urged the crowd to vote for Kerry, as did Detroit mayor Kwame Kilpatrick.

The Bush administration appears to have backed away from a proposal to help colleges that have taken in students displaced by Hurricane Katrina. In September the U.S. secretary of education, Margaret Spellings, announced that President Bush would ask Congress for $227-million to help students and colleges affected by the hurricane (The Chronicle, September 16). Much of that money was to provide $1,000 payments to colleges for each dislocated student they had enrolled. The funds were intended to help colleges meet the unexpected costs associated with educating students who typically had already paid their fall tuition to their home college and were not being charged by their host institution. Last week, however, President Bush did not include that proposal in an emergency spending plan to rebuild devastated areas of the Gulf Coast that he submitted to Congress. Mr. Bush is asking lawmakers to reallocate $17-billion that had already been appropriated to the Federal Emergency Management Agency for hurricane relief. The U.S. House of Representatives and the Senate are expected to introduce their own spending plans for the rebuilding effort within the next several weeks. Susan Aspey, an Education Department spokeswoman, said department officials \"still support\" the proposal. But privately, administration officials have told higher-education lobbyists that they have dropped the plan because Congressional leaders have shown little interest in it. Advocates for colleges say they have not given up on the proposal, but they know, in the current climate of budget deficits, that they face an uphill battle in getting any additional money for students and colleges affected by the hurricane.

Taxpayer support for public universities, measured per student, has plunged more precipitously since 2001 than at any time in two decades, and several university presidents are calling the decline a de facto privatization of the institutions that played a crucial role in the creation of the American middle class. Graham Spanier, president of Pennsylvania State University , said this year that skyrocketing tuition was a result of what he called \"public higher education\'s slow slide toward privatization.\" Other educators have made similar assertions, some avoiding the term \"privatization,\" but nonetheless describing a crisis that they say is transforming public universities. At an academic forum last month, John D. Wiley, chancellor of the University of Wisconsin at Madison , said that during the years after World War II , America built the world\'s greatest system of public higher education. \"We\'re now in the process of dismantling all that,\" Wiley said. The share of all public universities\' revenues deriving from state and local taxes declined to 64 percent in 2004 from 74 percent in 1991. At many flagship universities, the percentages are far smaller. About 25 percent of the University of Illinois \' budget comes from the state. Michigan finances about 18 percent of the University of Michigan \'s revenues. The taxpayer share of revenues at the University of Virginia is about 8 percent.

Although new SEC rules requiring lawyers to report wrongdoing by clients have yet to be tested, the visions of corporate counsel turning into regulators policing their clients have not materialized - the relief of the bar, said Peter Henning professor at Wayne State University law school. "They yelled and screamed about federal regulation of lawyers, and it's not so."