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Indoors and Outdoors, COVID-19 Reveals Unequal Access
Isolation of a person with COVID-19 within a house or apartment is important for keeping coronavirus from spreading to the people they live with, but a study shows disparities in access to isolation spaces.
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Your Smartphone Can Help Fight COVID. Here’s How.
COVID-19 vaccine reaction trackers and exposure alerts are just two of the ways to use the smartphone in your pocket against the coronavirus pandemic.
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Personalized Screening to Identify Teens with High Suicide Risk
Researchers develop universal screening tool used during emergency care visits that reliably predicts an adolescent or teen’s suicide risk.
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Children’s Hospital Stay for Severe Sepsis Associated with Income Disparities
Early findings suggest that children from lower-income neighborhoods may endure longer hospital stays after sepsis, a life-threatening response to an infection.
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Subset of COVID-19 Patients Have Increased Bleeding Risk
A new potential biomarker raises concerns over the current standard for treating COVID-19 induced blood clots with high dose blood thinners.
COVID map of cases by county in the USA in blue
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County by County, Study Shows Social Inequality in COVID-19’s Toll
Counties that score worst on measures of poverty, economic inequality, housing, food access, family structure, transportation, insurance and disability had far more cases and deaths from coronavirus in the first months of the pandemic.
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Michigan Medicine's Kellogg Eye Center and Hamilton Community Health Network partnership bolsters eye care access for Flint patients
Screening and Intervention for Glaucoma and Eye Health through Telemedicine (SIGHT) – Program allows Michigan Medicine doctors to virtually screen patients for glaucoma and other eye diseases that can eventually lead to vision loss.
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A Caregiver Check-In
Four ways to best support the caregiver in your life, especially during a pandemic.
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How to Best Manage Crohn’s Disease
As Crohn’s disease rates increase steadily, effective evidence-based ways to treat the complex disease are more important than ever.
Interaction between STC1 and CRT within a cell
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How a Little-Known Glycoprotein Blocks a Cancer Cell’s Immune Response
Targeting this inside-the-cell checkpoint could potentially improve response to cancer immunotherapy.
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Scientists ‘Farm’ Natural Killer Cells in Novel Cancer Fighting Approach
Engineers and oncologists teamed to develop a microfluidic chip capable of capturing the body’s natural killer immune cells to harvest their cancer-killing exosomes.
News Release
Returning to in-person school during COVID-19: A live Q &A with Mott doctors
Some students are starting to return to face-to-face school after months of remote learning during the pandemic.
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COVID-19 Variants: What Do New Mutations to SARS-CoV-2 Mean?
Mutations to the Sars-CoV-2 virus are resulting in new variant strains including B.1.1.7. What do these changes mean for efforts to end the COVID-19 pandemic?
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Controlling Pain After Surgery Doesn’t Have to Mean Opioids, Study Shows
Pain control after elective surgery does not have to include opioids to achieve good patient satisfaction without risk of addiction or diversion.
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New Technique Identifies Important Mutations Behind Lynch Syndrome
Approach could improve predictive value of genetic screening.