As the number of heart transplants performed across the United States continues to grow, surgeons at the U-M Health are taking advantage of technology that could increase its transplant yield by as much as 30%. Transplant surgeons in Ann Arbor completed the health system’s first heart transplant using an organ from a donor who had recently died — a process called donation after circulatory death, or DCD.

Use and confidence are lower in those with lower incomes or lower levels of physical or mental health

Children who need dialysis, treatment for a chronic condition or an overnight stay at University of Michigan Health C.S. Mott Children’s Hospital now have a new coping tool available.

Blood donation guidelines based on individual risk rather than broad bans increase the number of people eligible to give and save lives.

Research finds higher blood sugar linked to faster loss of brain power in stroke survivors.

Learn how lived experience and research experts define wellness when living with bipolar disorder with the Heinz C. Prechter Bipolar Research Program at the University of Michigan.

Here are four steps to take if you're considering buying used baby and kid gear, such as strollers, cribs and/or highchairs.

After a car accident that left one teenager with multiple injuries, surgeons helped her get back to her passion of dancing.

A Michigan Medicine nursing coworker becomes her new friend, and colleagues, surrogate.

Neurointerventionalists, neurosurgeons and comprehensive critical care staff came together to provide lifesaving care

The end of the public health emergency for COVID-19 brings changes, but does not change how individuals should protect themselves and others

One mother balances between her severe aortic stenosis, her son in the NICU and her six kids

Unique collaboration at Michigan Medicine helps 1-year-old with serious heart condition see a specialist right away and receive immediate treatment.

Surgeons in Zambia completed the country’s first total aortic arch replacement – guided by a team from University of Michigan Health. The six-person surgical team traveled from Ann Arbor to Africa in late February to co-lead this case and several others at National Heart Hospital, a government-established, 120-bed facility in Lusaka, Zambia.

Stopping or reducing doses of prescription medicine, also called deprescribing, is something many older adults would like to do, and some have already done without medical guidance. Medication reviews could help.