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Health Lab
How to make cancer prevention more equitable
Expert explains six behavioral risk factors for cancer and why current programs don’t always meet the needs of people from racially and ethnically minoritized groups and other vulnerable populations.
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Medicine at Michigan
Class Notes for winter 2024
Personal and professional updates from graduates of the University of Michigan Medical School.
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Medicine at Michigan
Future doctors prepare to care for LGBTQIA+ patients
U-M medical students have created a curriculum to teach their peers about health care issues specific to LGBTQIA+ patients
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Medicine at Michigan
Q&A: Advice for an aspiring physician
A physician-scientist talks with a new medical student about what it takes to achieve career goals — and work-life balance.
An unconscious woman lies on a hospital table while a clinician's glove is seen placing an oxygen mask over her nose and mouth
Health Lab
Hispanic patients with respiratory failure much more likely to be oversedated
Hispanic individuals who are hospitalized with respiratory failure are five times more likely than non-Hispanic patients to receive deep sedation while on a ventilator, according to a new study published in the Annals of the American Thoracic Society.
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Health Lab Podcast
Access to Plan B coincides with a drastic decrease in emergency contraception-related ER visits, study shows
U.S. emergency departments see 96% fewer visits, $7.6 million less in medical costs after FDA approval of over the counter emergency contraception.
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Medicine at Michigan
Massive bruise was first clue to bleeding disorder
When a minor injury led to a bruise that covered most of his leg, Wayne Sit started to suspect something was wrong. It was a long journey to being diagnosed with Von Willebrand disease.
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Medicine at Michigan
Meet the interventional radiologist who wants you to have his cell phone number
An interventional radiologist talks about non-invasive procedures and his close relationship with patients
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Medicine at Michigan
What does it all mean?
Why it's important to talk about spirituality in medical school.
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Medicine at Michigan
A crash course in AI
A broad overview of Michigan Medicine’s approach to artificial intelligence, including its safe, ethical, and transparent use
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Medicine at Michigan
Such horrible business
Men constructing a church in Cambridge Junction, Michigan found an unholy mess — smears of blood, tufts of hair, signs of heavy objects being dragged across the floor. In the graveyard in back, they found heaps of fresh earth next to empty graves. This is the story of the struggle to get bodies in the early days of anatomy classes.
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Medicine at Michigan
Alice Zheng was once skeptical of business
The course of Alice Zheng’s life changed when she audited a class at the U-M Ross School of Business during her first year of medical school. Before taking the class, Zheng was skeptical of business. Now she’s a venture capitalist supporting women’s health.
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Medicine at Michigan
An early injury inspired a career in medicine
When Henry Bell Jr. was a young boy, his sister was mowing the lawn and ran over the rock, which hit him in the eye. He spent two weeks in the hospital and discovered his dream: to become an ophthalmologist.
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Medicine at Michigan
From investment banker to future doctor
Mustafa Saadi, M4, started in the finance world and is finding a second career in medicine.
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Medicine at Michigan
We've been asking the wrong questions about kids and screen time
A researcher at Michigan Medicine is asking different questions and finding fresh answers that put less pressure on parents and more on the tech industry.