Julie Halpert

Ann Arbor-based journalist.
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Medicine at Michigan

Searching for the biology of mental illness

For half a century, Michigan Medicine researchers have been working to understand why we feel the way we feel. Their findings have offered hope to patients with mental health conditions from anxiety and depression to addiction and bipolar disorder.
Medicine at Michigan

The “Lung Backpack” and the Chance to Replace Failing Lungs

A new device engenders hope for children with lung failure
Health Lab

‘Lung Backpack’ Could Give Young Patients Mobility and Time to Heal

Under development at C.S. Mott Children’s Hospital, the pediatric artificial lung could offer new hope for treating children with lung failure.