Research and Policy Media Relations Manager
Gavin draws on more than 25 years of experience in communicating about science, medicine and health policy. She focuses mainly on the health services research done by members of the U-M Institute for Healthcare Policy and Innovation, who work to understand and improve the safety, quality, equity and affordability of health care. As part of the Michigan Medicine communication team, she has lead responsibility for primary care and mental health topics. Contact: [email protected]; Twitter: @Karag
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Increases in early stenting treatments have paid off in lives and dollars, but some hospitals lag behind, a new study finds. Meanwhile, total costs have grown without reductions in mortality.
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A long-term study in more than 1,100 people yields a new seven-factor framework that could help patients, clinicians and researchers.
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Work requirements proposed in some states would probably apply to only a small group of Medicaid enrollees and may disrupt care for the chronically ill.
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Guidelines developed from gallbladder patient data and interviews form the basis of a new effort to right-size opioid prescribing for many operations.
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Many adults haven’t talked to their doctors, pharmacists or nurses about drug interactions, a new national poll finds.
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Using a real-world outbreak as a test case, a team combined patient transfer data and whole-genome sequencing to identify hot spots for antibiotic-resistant bacteria transmission.
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A PCR-based approach to a frontier of the human genome could speed discovery in chromosome-based diseases and birth defects.
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Help is available to manage the stress of caregiving. A leader of the U-M poll that recently surveyed dementia caregivers shares some of the top places to turn.
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Helpful forms of E. coli may trigger steps that keep infections out, new experiments in dish-grown gut organoids show.
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Dozens of hospitals across Michigan have teamed up to improve surgical care, saving lives and dollars. Now, the leaders propose ways to take the model national.
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Despite demands that impact their own lives and health, only 1 in 4 caregivers use support resources meant for them.
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By harnessing massive amounts of data on activity within and between snippets of DNA, researchers aim to one day reprogram both healthy and diseased cells.
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The movement to reduce overtesting and overtreatment is blossoming, but much more work is needed to cut back on low-value care.
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Using the medication-assisted treatment (MAT) approach, primary care doctors and teams can help patients with opioid addiction, how to prevent it.
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A free guide to opioid prescribing recommendations for surgery created by surgeons to address post surgery pain medications and opioids.
