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Home Workspace Causing Back and Neck Pain? Try This
Michigan Medicine experts explain how that new home workspace could be causing back and neck pain, and offer tips for creating a space that is easier on your muscles and joints.
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Nursing Homes Prepared for Pandemics, but COVID-19 Reveals Gaps
Nursing homes across America, and care homes in the UK and beyond, have had clusters of COVID-19 cases. How can they contain the spread of coronavirus or other pandemics?
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COVID-19: Behind the Scenes of Testing
Duane Newton, Ph.D., director of the clinical microbiology laboratory at Michigan Medicine, explains the challenges of COVID-19 testing and how U-M is helping to address them.
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From the NFL Draft to Setting Broken Bones: the Doctor Is Still In
COVID-19 has necessitated advances in telehealth in all sectors, and now that includes sports medicine and the 2020 National Football League (NFL) draft.
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5 Reasons to Embrace At-Home Cardiac Rehab
Your in-person cardiac rehabilitation program might be suspended for now, but that’s no reason you can’t work out at home. Find out why being your own personal coach is more important now than ever. 
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Personalized Device Could Support Multiple COVID-19 Patients From Single Ventilator
3D printing fuels U-M efforts to rapidly increase ventilator capacity while providing each patient on vent support with individually tailored gas pressures and pressure monitoring.
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Please Don’t (Need to) Use My Work
Although the ethical allocation of scarce resources during a public health emergency are guidelines Susan Dorr Goold, M.D., has developed, she hopes to never see them used. 
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U-M Neurologists Voice Need for More Environmental Research
Scientists are discovering how pollutants are linked to neurodegenerative diseases like ALS, Alzheimer’s disease and Parkinson’s disease.
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Thrive with Your Family: Processing Change
Experts tackle processing change while understanding feelings, responding to new behaviors, juggling home and work and managing screen time during the coronavirus crisis.
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When Ventilators Don’t Help COVID-19 Patients, This Might
A life support system called ECMO has helped ARDS patients in past pandemics and other situations; now critical care teams are trying it in COVID-19 patients.
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Spinal Cord Injury Increases Risk for Mental Health Disorders
A new study finds adults with traumatic spinal cord injury are at an increased risk of developing mental health disorders and secondary chronic diseases compared to adults without the condition.
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Treating a Broken Bone During a Pandemic
The fear of catching COVID-19 delayed a patient from seeking emergency treatment for a broken ankle. But thanks to a newly opened specialty care clinic, he’ll be riding the trails again soon.
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Pivoting Critical Care Research to Help with the COVID-19 Pandemic
From a negative pressure helmet to enhanced protocols, researchers at the Michigan Center for Integrative Research in Critical Care are adapting their research to focus on the COVID-19 pandemic.
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Turning On the ‘Off Switch’ in Cancer Cells
Researchers have made strides toward targeting cancer in a new way. Through a collaboration between institutions and various scientific disciplines, scientists found a new way to attack a previously undruggable tumor suppressor.
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6 Ways to Support Children with Autism During the Pandemic
A child psychiatrist provides support resources for children with autism, and their caregivers, during the COVID-19 pandemic.