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Granholm and GOP leaders reach a budget deal

An AP story reports that Gov. Jennifer Granholm and Republican leaders agreed Wednesday on a plan to deal with an estimated $376 million shortfall in the state's general fund budget. The new executive order still includes a $30 million cut for state universities, but they would be first in line to have funds restored if tax revenues come in higher than expected this spring and summer. President Irvin D. Reid of Wayne State and President Lou Anna Simon of Michigan State indicated they were satisfied with the agreement. "I think the governor has made a noble effort in trying to get us some funding for sort of a stopgap," Reid said. University of Michigan President Mary Sue Coleman said U-M will live with the agreement, but more needs to be done to fund the state's higher learning institutions.

Mich. DOI study finds competition doesn't equal affordability; insurers say losses driving rates

A report on a study about the effect of competitiveness in the state insurance market in Michigan mentions that the study was "prepared by economist George Galster of the Center for Urban Studies at Wayne State University." The report, according to the state Office of Financial and Insurance Services, indicated that, although there are areas of Michigan that have excessive rates, the rates statewide are not excessive because the law says that the only measure of "excessive" is whether competition exists.

Gay rights issues focus of WSU Cohen lecture

Wayne State University Law School will present its 21st annual I. Goodman Cohen Lecture in Trial Advocacy at 3 p.m. today in the school\'s Spencer M. Partrich Auditorium. Paula Ettelbrick, a 1984 graduate of the WSU Law School, will deliver the lecture, titled \"More Than a Trial: Gay and Lesbian Legal Advocacy.\" The lecture will focus on the need for gay rights lawyers to not only consider legal developments when presenting a case, but also the political and cultural ramifications of the presentation.

MSU, U-M, WSU presidents: Higher ed funding broken

Michigan's public university system is headed toward major declines without a fundamental revamping of the way state government funds it, the presidents of the state's three largest universities said Wednesday at a House Appropriations Subcommittee on Higher Education hearing. President Irvin D. Reid indicated that the governor's goal of doubling the number of college graduates cannot be met under proposed funding levels. "We have sacrificed; we have pared, and pared again," he noted. "It took more than 135 years to build Wayne State University into a great university. It could take less than a decade to eliminate some of that greatness." The Gongwer report says that Reid and the presidents of U-M and MSU had "essentially the same message" for committee members: "The system is broken and must be fixed."

Robo-docs check in at Detroit Medical Center

The Detroit Medical Center today becomes the world\'s first hospital system to deploy an entire fleet of real robots that can see, hear, talk, scoot around and allow doctors to be in two places at once. The DMC installation is by far the biggest to date, with 10 robots and 19 control stations that allow patients to talk with doctors who might be at DMC\'s downtown Detroit campus, at Huron Valley-Sinai Hospital 38 miles away or at home in Bloomfield Hills. From a strategic standpoint, Mike Duggan, DMC president and CEO, says the robots will help pull the main DMC campus and Wayne State University Medical School into a more closely knit system with community hospitals Sinai-Grace and Huron Valley-Sinai.

Taboo no more: Talking about colorectal cancer

Dr. Philip Agop Philip, medical oncologist at the Barbara Ann Karmanos Cancer Institute and a professor of medicine and oncology at Wayne State's School of Medicine, says screening rates for colon cancer are still unsatisfactory. "Some people think that if they have no family history of colon cancer, they don\'t need to be screened. Other people don\'t have a family physician, so they aren\'t told to be screened. For others, cost is an issue, and many people don\'t want to go through the preparation or the procedure itself, so they avoid it,\" Philip says.

One-time terror suspect gets apology from judge

Peter Henning, a Wayne State University law professor and a former federal prosecutor, talked about the release of a Moroccan immigrant, Ahmed Hannan, following 3 ½ years of incarceration for suspected terrorism. A federal judge apologized Tuesday to Hannan who pleaded guilty to attempted insurance fraud and sentenced him to 6 months in prison. \"The government needed to save face. You can\'t go from having the first terror trial with the possibility of life imprisonment to: \'We\'re sorry and please leave,\' \" Henning said.

The soft side of medicine

Studies from the American Heart Association, suggest that minority heart patients don\'t receive the latest drugs and interventions. They don\'t see heart specialists as often as white patients, and they aren\'t offered the chance to stop smoking as often. Dr. John Flack, professor and associate chairman of the Department of Internal Medicine at Wayne's School of Medicine, is training the next generation of heart specialists. He tells them to answer patients with \"yes, sir\" and \"yes, ma\'am\" and \"to convey to people we\'d care for them like a member of their family.\" Once patients trust, they\'ll listen and ask questions, he says.

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