A group of students from Detroit’s Cody High School spent a week immersed in the world of cardiovascular medicine and science, learning about possible careers and shadowing experts at University of Michigan Health’s Frankel Cardiovascular Center. The Careers in Cardiovascular Science and Medicine Program began began in 2022.

As the number of heart transplants performed across the United States continues to grow, surgeons at the U-M Health are taking advantage of technology that could increase its transplant yield by as much as 30%. Transplant surgeons in Ann Arbor completed the health system’s first heart transplant using an organ from a donor who had recently died — a process called donation after circulatory death, or DCD.

Iron levels in the blood – and specifically, a type of iron storage called ferritin – have been linked to mental health symptom severity

Use and confidence are lower in those with lower incomes or lower levels of physical or mental health

Children who need dialysis, treatment for a chronic condition or an overnight stay at University of Michigan Health C.S. Mott Children’s Hospital now have a new coping tool available.

Life stressors can contribute to multiple sclerosis flares and disability. Learn about the research on how stress can impact MS, and how to manage stress to improve your health.

Scientists have wondered whether there are differences in the types of yeast that become pathogenic. A study from the U-M Medical School Department of Microbiology and Immunology finds that the colonizing strains are very similar to pathogenic strains.

Having clinicians involved in research supports better outcomes and care for patients with diabetes, obesity and related complications.

One of the most important protein complexes in mammals involved in ERAD is called SEL1L-HRD1. Recent research finds that this protein complex helps regulate another critical protein involved in innate immunity, called STING, at the endoplasmic reticulum.

Blood donation guidelines based on individual risk rather than broad bans increase the number of people eligible to give and save lives.

A Michigan Medicine study finds controlling elevated carbon dioxide improves survival in patients.

Research finds higher blood sugar linked to faster loss of brain power in stroke survivors.

Sugar free: investigator finds cancer cells use a new fuel in absence of sugar

Learn how lived experience and research experts define wellness when living with bipolar disorder with the Heinz C. Prechter Bipolar Research Program at the University of Michigan.