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Health Lab
Making kid’s eye care more accessible
In Michigan, families don’t have to travel far for top pediatric eye specialists
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Health Lab
A freeze, or a fix? Preventive care coverage at a crossroads
As a court case called Braidwood vs. Becerra goes through the legal system, a popular Affordable Care Act provision hangs in the balance.
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Health Lab
U-M Health performs its first heart transplant after cardiac death
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.
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Health Lab
More older adults are using patient portals, but access and attitudes vary widely
Use and confidence are lower in those with lower incomes or lower levels of physical or mental health
Mott patient using iPad during hospital stay
News Release
Nearly every child at U-M Health C.S. Mott Children Hospital gains access to iPads at bedside thanks to $240K grant
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.
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Health Lab
New blood donation rules to know
Blood donation guidelines based on individual risk rather than broad bans increase the number of people eligible to give and save lives.
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Health Lab
Study finds cancer cells use a new fuel in absence of sugar
Sugar free: investigator finds cancer cells use a new fuel in absence of sugar
Health Lab
Living well with bipolar disorder
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.
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Health Lab
4 steps to take before using pre-owned children's equipment
Here are four steps to take if you're considering buying used baby and kid gear, such as strollers, cribs and/or highchairs.
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Health Lab
Dancing again
After a car accident that left one teenager with multiple injuries, surgeons helped her get back to her passion of dancing.
Health Lab
Coworker turned friend turned surrogate
A Michigan Medicine nursing coworker becomes her new friend, and colleagues, surrogate.
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Health Lab
Woman makes complete recovery after treatment for near-fatal brain aneurysm bleed
Neurointerventionalists, neurosurgeons and comprehensive critical care staff came together to provide lifesaving care
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Health Lab
11 things to know now that COVID-19 isn’t an “emergency” anymore
The end of the public health emergency for COVID-19 brings changes, but does not change how individuals should protect themselves and others
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Health Lab
“The strength and grace” of one mom with severe heart disease
One mother balances between her severe aortic stenosis, her son in the NICU and her six kids
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Health Lab
Same-day heart diagnosis helps 1-year-old get immediate treatment
Unique collaboration at Michigan Medicine helps 1-year-old with serious heart condition see a specialist right away and receive immediate treatment.