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5 Strategies to Stop Infertility from Stressing Your Relationship
Explore these tips for managing the stress that comes with infertility from Lindsay Brennan, LMSW, CST, a clinical social worker with the Michigan Medicine Center for Reproductive Medicine.
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One Patient Sees a Corneal Transplant’s Transformative Effect
Discover how regardless of people’s age, eye color or eyesight, they likely can serve as a corneal tissue donor and the transformative effect this can have on others.
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What Happens When You Get a Concussion — and What Happens Next
When a concussion is suspected, you may be unsure of what to do next. Learn more about concussions, and why proper management is crucial.
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Diagnosing Obstructive Sleep Apnea: New Guidelines Help Doctors Decide
Dive into the updated best practices for diagnosing obstructive sleep apnea and learn how they can help doctors better recommend treatment for each sleep apnea patient.
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The Faces of Transplant: How Organ Donation Saved Their Lives
Organ donors have a unique ability to help. Meet some Michigan Medicine transplant patients who are thriving thanks to the generosity of others.
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Virtual Humans Help Aspiring Doctors Learn Empathy
Delivering bad news in a caring way — and coping with a patient’s reaction — is a key skill for doctors. Intuitive technology is helping medical students learn the best approaches. 
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How TEVAR Surgery Saved the Life of One Unstoppable Equestrian
Myra Fleming expects to be back in the saddle again after a thoracic endovascular aortic repair of her severely injured aorta. Learn how the surgery helped the octogenarian rider recover after an accident.
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Why Your Medicine Cabinet Needs a ‘Spring Cleaning’ This Saturday
Learn more about a national event encouraging prescription drug disposal and the benefits of timely cabinet cleanses and safe storage from a Michigan Medicine physician.
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Balancing Medical Discovery and Respect for Patients, with Henrietta Lacks in Mind
Tissue and blood samples taken from patients can hold the keys to biomedical discovery. But the research community must consider patient privacy, a new perspective says.
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Focusing on Inflammation to Treat DVT Clots, Without Adverse Bleeding
A 25-year journey leads to the first calf vein thrombosis patients treated with a selectin inhibitor strategy.
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Survivor in Action: A Cancer Patient Lends Her Mind, Body and Voice to Help Others
Participation in clinical trials is one way a mother fights back against cancer. She also volunteers with cancer patients and is working to boost research funds to study her own disease.
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Gut Bacteria May Protect Newborns Against Infections, New Mice Study Shows
Why do so many babies fall victim to infections that invade the gut, but others don’t? Research in germ-free mice yields important clues.
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'Living Proof' that Federal Cancer Research, Funding Matter
A breakthrough treatment supported by a multitude of federal agencies helped one woman beat cancer, leading her to speak out about the importance of continuing such work.
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7 Facts Everyone Should Know About Becoming an Organ Donor
Learn more about the importance of registering as an organ donor, how simple registration is and more common organ donation questions answered.
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‘We Have to Keep Moving Forward’: The Importance of Research on Patient Care
A patient with chronic pancreatitis is helping shape research on vascular access devices — and much more — at Michigan Medicine.