Teens and young adults are increasingly eager to get vaccinated against coronavirus but a minority, including many Black teens, express the same vaccine hesitation as older adults.

Nearly all of us engage with some form of social media every day. But what if the true power of social media wasn’t found in a like, tweet or follow? For an emerging field of research taking place at Michigan Medicine, it’s the data inside social media that may have the power to give patients bigger answers and better outcomes.

Most aspiring physicians study medicine with the hopes of saving lives, being on the cutting edge of research, or developing the latest therapies and technologies. For Dr. Valeria Valbuena, it was all of the above, plus one additional life-affirming goal.

Alone. Scared. Never knowing who to trust or where to turn for help. That’s how Kade Fitzgerald of Jackson, Michigan lived the first 32 years of his life. Assigned female at birth, Kade knew at age 6 that he was meant to be a man.

Imaging revealed that Carter had a spinal cord defect called spina bifida, a condition that ranges in level of severity and has the ability to render a child unable to walk or have normal bowel and bladder function. While the solution for this delicate condition has always been surgery outside of the womb, Michigan Medicine had a different answer – surgery in the womb.

At 10 years old, Akylah Marshall was your typical preteen. But in November of 2019, life had different plans for Akylah. After days of severe and unexplained vomiting, Akylah’s mother Angela knew that what her daughter was experiencing was far from routine. Worse, in less than a week’s time, Akylah’s abdomen was bulging and distended well beyond its normal shape and size.

What do you do when you’re experiencing unexplained abdominal pain, weight loss and chronic fatigue and your doctor can’t tell you why? That’s what Michael Skaggs asked himself when scan after scan, test after test, and doctor after doctor were unable to help him.

A few months after turning three, things took a downward turn for Dominic when he started having what his mother would describe as seizure activity.

Multiple factors, ranging from fear of deportation to food insecurity, create a negative domino effect for the health of the MENA community.

Michigan Medicine experts share how their work is contributing to gender-affirming and other forms of equitable health care for the LGBTQ+ community.

Despite living with an adenoid cystic carcinoma, Celina Pitt finds joy in nightly dance parties with her husband.

Kristi Brown’s first pregnancy had been going even better than she hoped. But at week 20, an ultrasound revealed unexpected news: her baby had spina bifida.

The new approach blocks the interaction between cancer cells and immune receptors, showing promise in mice.

A sleep neurologist explains the science.

A urologic oncology fellow dedicates his career to debunking false notions about racial biology.