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How Primary Care Doctors Can Help Patients Beat Opioid Addiction
Using the medication-assisted treatment (MAT) approach, primary care doctors and teams can help patients with opioid addiction, how to prevent it.
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How Hospitals Respond When It’s Uncertain If the Newborn Is a Boy or a Girl
In differences of sex development, hospitals vary widely in terms of treatment and guidance ahead of irreversible procedures, a new study shows.
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After Head Injury, U-M Student Benefits from Brain Trauma ICU
A fall from a second-story roof could have been fatal for a college freshman. Thanks to a specialized intensive care unit at Michigan Medicine, the student is back on campus.
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How U-M’s Genetic Research Bank Fuels Precision Health Work
Campuswide genetic science programs are helping researchers pinpoint new ways to treat heart disease, cancer, diabetes and more.
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What to Do When a Loved One with Lewy Body Dementia Is Hospitalized
Helping a loved one with Lewy body dementia navigate the hospital requires caretakers to be advocates and educators. One woman offers strategic advice.
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Breast Cancer in Men: What All Guys Should Know
One in eight men are diagnosed with breast cancer. Find out five facts about male breast cancer, including information on risk factors and how its treated.
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These Surgeons Wanted to Prescribe Fewer Opioids. So They Developed a Guide for All to Use
A free guide to opioid prescribing recommendations for surgery created by surgeons to address post surgery pain medications and opioids.
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When Should I Take My Child to the Emergency Room?
A new poll finds that parents might rely on the hospital too often for minor issues. This primer for parents can help.
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Is Coblation Really a Less Painful Tonsillectomy Procedure?
Coblation, touted as a kinder, gentler tonsillectomy method, might not be any better than traditional tonsillectomy surgery, one Michigan Medicine researcher says.
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A Letter to My Baby, Missing You Always
A mother’s letter to her daughter, who was diagnosed before birth with a fatal birth defect and died shortly after entering the world.
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Trusted ‘Ally’: App Guides Breast Cancer Patients Through Treatment
See how Michigan Medicine's Breast Cancer Ally smart phone app provides individualized information, resources and supportive tools to breast cancer patients.
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Healing After Miscarriage and Infant Loss: A Social Worker’s Tips
Losing a baby to miscarriage or shortly after childbirth is a unique, unfamiliar and painful type of grief. How to foster support and healing.
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Living Well for 19 Years with Metastatic Breast Cancer
Stage 4 breast cancer survivor Heather Jose shares how research advancements and precision medicine helped her live 19 years and counting with metastatic cancer.
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Low-Cost, High-Volume Services Make Up a Big Portion of Unneeded Health Care Spending
“Low-value” care, such as unnecessary lab tests, could be reduced safely to cut expenses, a new analysis suggests.
Pregnant woman receives her flu shot and Tdap vaccine during her third trimester
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How vaccines protect moms (and babies) during pregnancy and beyond
Find out the benefits of getting a flu shot and the Tdap vaccine during your third trimester of pregnancy, including how these vaccines help protect your unborn baby.