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Health Lab
Confused About What to Do After a COVID Test or Exposure? Start Here
Do you have to quarantine if you’ve gotten the COVID-19 vaccine? Who has to go into isolation after a coronavirus exposure, and for how long? A handy guide.
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Health Lab
Treating Sleep Apnea May Reduce Dementia Risk
People with obstructive sleep apnea who treat their apnea with the commonly-prescribed positive airway pressure therapy were less likely to be diagnosed with dementia.
News Release
Michigan Medicine helps lead first national study on how highly allergic people react to COVID-19 vaccine
In a carefully controlled study, Michigan Medicine researchers will kick off the first national trial to study allergic reactions to the COVID-19 mRNA vaccines.
News Release
In breakthrough for regional cardiovascular collaboration, second open-heart program approved for Grand Rapids
A collaboration to expand cardiovascular services in west Michigan has taken a big step forward with state regulators giving the go-ahead to launch a second open-heart surgery program for the Grand Rapids area  – the largest market in the state with a single open-heart program.
Health Lab
Toddler with Spina Bifida Meets Paralympian: “She has crutches like me”
Young patient’s reaction to commercial featuring gold medalist and double amputee Jessica Long goes viral, leads to Zoom introduction.
Health Lab
Off the Air and Into the O.R.
When Detroit radio personality “Mojo in the Morning” needed heart surgery, Michigan Medicine was there for him, in and out of the operating room.
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Health Lab
6 Key Facts About Clinical Trials
Why you should consider participating in a clinical trial and what to expect from the experience.
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Health Lab
Addressing the Cumulative Cost of COVID-19 for Communities of Color
Two translational research social scientists offer six practical solutions to follow.
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Health Lab
Parenting Conflicts May Stall Career Growth for Physician Moms
Study finds that physician parents often turn down career-advancing opportunities and aren’t comfortable discussing work-family conflicts with leaders. How pandemic-era changes may help.
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Health Lab
Virtual “Urgent Care” May Lead to Higher Rates of Downstream Follow-Up Care, Study Suggests
Direct-to-consumer telehealth is a growing industry, especially for urgent care after business hours, but it may not prevent downstream appointments as much as hoped.
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Health Lab
A Few Hundred Dollars Makes a Difference in Use of Long-Lasting Birth Control
LARC use by women in high-deductible health plans rose faster than use by other women after Affordable Care Act cut cost.
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Michigan Answers
Carter’s Michigan Answer: The state’s first spina bifida fetal surgery
Imaging revealed that Carter had a spinal cord defect called spina bifida, a condition that ranges in level of severity and has the ability to render a child unable to walk or have normal bowel and bladder function. While the solution for this delicate condition has always been surgery outside of the womb, Michigan Medicine had a different answer – surgery in the womb.
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Michigan Answers
Kade’s Michigan Answer: Becoming who he really was
Alone. Scared. Never knowing who to trust or where to turn for help. That’s how Kade Fitzgerald of Jackson, Michigan lived the first 32 years of his life. Assigned female at birth, Kade knew at age 6 that he was meant to be a man.
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Michigan Answers
Akylah’s Michigan Answer: The fastest response for the rarest cancer
At 10 years old, Akylah Marshall was your typical preteen. But in November of 2019, life had different plans for Akylah. After days of severe and unexplained vomiting, Akylah’s mother Angela knew that what her daughter was experiencing was far from routine. Worse, in less than a week’s time, Akylah’s abdomen was bulging and distended well beyond its normal shape and size.
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Michigan Answers
Michael’s Michigan Answer: The power of a second opinion
What do you do when you’re experiencing unexplained abdominal pain, weight loss and chronic fatigue and your doctor can’t tell you why? That’s what Michael Skaggs asked himself when scan after scan, test after test, and doctor after doctor were unable to help him.