University of Michigan research reveals that simple awareness from the hospital care team can help protect a breastfeeding relationship for patients in the ICU and their newborn baby.

A recent University of Michigan study found that around 20% of cervical cancer cases and cervical cancer-related deaths could be avoided if every eligible person was screened. U-M researcher, Dr. Diane Harper is hoping to lower the barriers to cervical cancer screening by making it more convenient and less expensive. How? By empowering patients with the tools and knowledge needed to collect their own samples at home for testing. This approach has the potential to greatly increase the number of people who are screened overall, and would be transformative in advancing health equity and accessibility for cervical cancer screening.

For STI testing, research finds self-collected kits could reduce reproductive health barriers among young adults.

Researchers have found that self-sampling is equally reliable to speculum exams for HPV screening in people aged 25 to 65.

HPV screening usually entails a speculum-based exam, which is an uncomfortable experience for most patients. University of Michigan researchers are the first to demonstrate in the United States that self-sampling is just as effective as speculum-based testing for HPV detection.

Today on Health Lab, a public health professor publicly shares her personal fibroid journey, addressing racial disparities for Black patients.