How the Detroit Zoo and doctors helped a chimpanzee rejoin his community.

Once on the heart transplant waiting list, the Michigan toddler’s heart now beats on its own.

Patients with traumatic brain injury in the United States are at the mercy of an oversimplified and inadequate classification and health care system. Experts are calling for comprehensive investment and systemic overhaul for TBI care.

Individuals living with dementia require care that is often delivered by family and friends. This episode is devoted to discussing some of the unique aspects of dementia caregiving. Our guest today is Dr. Amanda Leggett. Dr. Leggett is a Research Assistant Professor in the Department of Psychiatry here at the University of Michigan. Her research, funded by the National Institutes of Health, is focused on issues related to dementia caregiving. She has interviewed over a hundred patients with dementia and their caregivers.

The path to recovery after experiencing every parents’ worst nightmare: stillbirth.

Clues suggest anti-inflammatory macrophages are different in people with diabetes.

Gun owners and non-firearm owners over 50 agree with measures to reduce firearm injury and death, including suicide, and accidental shooting. But many gun owners don’t practice safe storage even if children are in their home, the study shows.

A team examines barriers to the use of a proven strategy to protect the stomachs of patients at high risk for bleeding.

Jason Gentry needed a kidney. Lisa Clouse wanted to give him hers. When the two weren’t a match, a paired kidney exchange across 6 states ensured Gentry — and 5 others — got the organs they needed.

A collaboration between nurses, frontline workers and musical theatre students tells the story of endurance and making a difference.

Often found in beauty products and wellness supplements, hyaluronic acid attracts and retains water well. It’s also a major player in the physiology of pancreatic tumors.

Maddie’s non-stop seizures resisted medicine. So at age 4, she underwent a specialized procedure to remove the brain tissue causing them.

Most teens and young adults underestimate sexually transmitted infection risk, and feel their generation needs better information.

Michigan Medicine announced, it will rename its critical care research institute after Dr. Max Harry Weil, regarded by many as a father of critical care medicine, to recognize his family’s $10 million donation for advancing research and innovation.

Before you head outside with your shovel, brush up on these tips to keep your heart safe out in the snow.