A new review finds that a family history of prostate cancer should not automatically exclude low-risk patients from an active surveillance approach.

The story of one man with stomach cancer — and thousands more patients like him — demonstrates the lifesaving power of research and discovery.

When it comes to understanding the human body, seeing is believing. Now, a new website allows teachers and students anywhere to look through a “virtual microscope.”

The life’s work of a Michigan surgeon demonstrates the importance of support for science research and big thinking.

Learn how to treat your child's seasonal allergy symptoms, including tips for giving allergy medication to kids, from the C.S. Mott Children's Hospital.

Get answers to frequently asked questions about genetic screening for inherited heart diseases such as Marfan syndrome or hypertrophic cardiomyopathy.

Many adults take corticosteroids for short-term symptom relief — but providers may want to consider possible side effects more closely.

Study finds specifically follicular and medullary thyroid cancer metastasis to bone has a low survival rate prompting great drug research.

A rare, highly vascular tumor put one teenager through two intense surgeries. And its genetic link, U-M doctors discovered, also put his family members at risk.

For some surgery patients, a prescription to ease postoperation pain leads to continued opioid use months afterward.

Learn why it’s difficult to keep weight off, with these weight loss lessons from Scientists at Michigan Medicine.

Printed simulations of lifelike body parts allow surgeons-in-training the opportunity to practice complex surgeries before assisting with the real thing.

Read the results of a U-M study on the cultural divide between doctors and Latina breast cancer patients and find guidelines for providing culturally competent care.

One future U-M medical student has her sights set on reducing disparities in health care. As a bonus, some of the work occurs alongside her heart doctor dad.

Michigan Medicine researchers developed a new tool to gauge a young adult patient’s gun violence risk, in hopes of more efficiently using prevention resources.