The latest stories from the Michigan Health and the Michigan Health Lab on the coronavirus outbreak.

Janice Bright describes how minimally invasive treatment for advanced COPD improved her quality of life. 

Today, 173 University of Michigan medical students excitedly learned their fates as future health care providers as they read their letter from the National Residency Match Program, revealing where they’ll head for the next chapter of their training. But this time, it happened electronically.

Dental patients who receive opioids after getting a tooth pulled have no less pain, and no more patient satisfaction, than those who receive non-opioid painkillers.

Are you tired all the time? For some people, narcolepsy could be the culprit. Two Michigan Medicine sleep medicine specialists discuss the types, symptoms and available treatments for this sleep disorder.

Right now in hospitals around the world, health care professionals taking care of patients with COVID-19 are going to great lengths to protect themselves and other patients from the coronavirus that causes the disease.

Blood donations are down because of coronavirus, and it may get worse. Giving blood is an important thing to do now in the face of shortages at major hospitals.

As the coronavirus keeps families homebound, a childhood development expert shares ways to have productive days together.

An epidemiologist explains the term "R0" and how many people one person can infect if they have the coronavirus.

Census forms are arriving in mailboxes nationwide and can be filled out online. The data helps decide how much money hospitals, health agencies and others receive from the federal government – including for response to situations like COVID-19.

Michigan Medicine will be offering COVID-19 curbside screening for doctor-referred patients at three of its facilities.

Michigan Medicine continues to excel in training the next generation of health care leaders, as reflected in the 2021 U.S. News and World Report Best Graduate School rankings, released today (March 17).

A public health expert answers four questions on many parents minds.

Michigan Medicine has executed the next phase of a comprehensive COVID-19 planning and response program which includes the opening, today, of a 32-bed isolation unit.

Modeling emerging diseases like COVID-19 can be difficult and potentially inaccurate with traditional reporting methods alone. One U-M researcher has been using her expertise in forecasting epidemiological trends to collaborate with researchers in China t