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New study aims to prioritize the patient recovery experience when determining anesthetic options
More than 50,000 surgical patients receive anesthetic care in the U.S. each day. But when it comes to deciding between two anesthetic medications that have been in use for decades, clinicians and patients have little scientific evidence to compare effectiveness and risks.
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A risky combination of medicines gets riskier when a patient’s prescriptions come from two doctors
Multiple prescribers means higher overdose risk in patients taking a benzodiazepine (such as Xanax, Valium or Restoril) and an opioid (such as Vicodin, Norco or Percocet) at the same time
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First-time opioid prescriptions got shorter, less potent after CDC guidelines
Doctors prescribed smaller and shorter courses of opioid pain medications like Oxycontin, Oxycodone, Vicodin after the 2016 CDC opioid prescribing guidelines.
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Pumping iron: inhibition of key pathway promotes iron-dependent cell death in pancreatic cancer cells
Cell culture study maps mechanisms underlying a new potential strategy for killing pancreatic cancer cells through a type of cell death known as ferroptosis.
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Sleep is vital to associating emotion with memory
According to a study, researchers find that disrupted sleep in mice leads to limited to no emotional responses.   
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Tofacitinib for severe ulcerative colitis: Will it prevent colectomies?
A new Michigan Medicine study shows promising results in use of tofacitinib in treatment of acute severe ulcerative colitis (ASUC) to reduce colectomy.
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Michigan Answers
Michael’s Michigan Answer: A prosthetic leg built for speed
After losing half of his leg in a car accident in 2016, Michael was determined to get back to normal - and to get back to car racing.
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What the Delta variant means for COVID-19 spread and vaccines
The Delta variant of COVID-19 is more transmissible and can cause breakthrough infections even in vaccinated people, but what does it mean practically for the vaccinated and unvaccinated, the immunocompromised and kids?
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How can nursing homes protect residents from infection? Follow the research
Nursing home residents were hit hard by COVID-19, but other infections threaten their health too including superbugs known as MDROs, and urinary tract infections.
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Michigan Answers
Meredith’s Michigan Answer: Getting back to her greatest passion
For 53-year-old Meredith Hoag, scuba diving was a source of pure joy. But over the last decade or so, Meredith began experiencing bone loss in her spine and later injured her back. Luckily, she knew just who to turn to.
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New prenatal care guidelines emerge from COVID
For the first time in almost a century, experts release new pregnancy care recommendations that focus on tailoring care to individual patients.
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Achilles injuries skyrocket as America returns to normal. Here’s how to handle them
Treating them early makes a huge difference.
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What does the future hold for telehealth? New report gives hints
Telehealth including video visits, e-Visits and other telemedicine have ramped up rapidly during the pandemic. New data could shape future use.
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Trial to use stem cells in baby hearts
Researchers study stem cells’ potential to preserve heart function and delay heart transplants for children with complex congenital heart disease.
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The pandemic may have increased older adults’ fall risk
Falls are a major cause of injury to older adults but the pandemic led to a drop in physical condition and increase in fear of falling that could increase risk of injury.