A month without alcohol offers a chance to examine drinking habits and recoup from the damaging effects of beer, wine and liquor. As Dry January becomes a popular trend worldwide, explore the health benefits of quitting alcohol to kick off the New Year.

With the help of a new human embryonic stem cell line, researchers make initial strides toward treatment for the genetic mutation.

After countless hospital stays and years of medical tests and drug therapies, a sixth-grader receives the best Christmas present of her life.

The act of play is a critical part of a child’s growth — and scientific research proves it. Here’s how to make the most of parent-child quality time.

A genomic duplication may help explain why esophageal adenocarcinoma is much more common in Caucasians and presents a potential target for prevention.

An 11-year-old boy’s enrollment in a U-M clinical trial for peanut allergy treatment suggests graduated doses of peanut protein powder could help protect allergic children.

Firearms have been the No. 2 cause of death for at least 17 years, even as prevention efforts have cut the death rate in half from motor vehicle accidents, the No. 1 cause

The year’s most-read articles range from need-to-know health tips and lifesaving facts about disease to a tale of survival that occurred thousands of miles away.

A long-standing puzzle about long-term memory processing may be solved. The method: monitoring the brain activity of sleeping rats after they complete a new maze.

A look back on the year’s most popular Michigan Medicine stories and the groundbreaking studies that made global headlines.

Most important: Don’t panic. Second most important: Spread the word.

Most parents plan for transportation and child care before a special event, but fewer consider how excess drinking may affect parenting the next day, a new poll finds.

A study with a satirical spin drives home a real point about the demands on general practitioners’ time and expectations for shared decision-making in primary care.

A new study finds 1 in 7 people with type 2 diabetes who don’t use insulin monitor their blood sugar levels more often than guidelines suggest.

While staying at University Hospital, one patient looked out his window to see the maize and blue helicopter taking off. Little did he know, he would soon meet the team.