The gap in this key outcome for traditional and private-insurer Medicare participants has narrowed in recent years, though differences remain in care during and after hospitalization.

Future studies are needed to determine if cost is a barrier for new medications with greater efficacy.

University of Michigan Health Von Voigtlander Women’s Hospital, part of Michigan Medicine, has been named among the best hospitals for maternity care by U.S. News and World Report.

The Leapfrog Group has named University of Michigan Health one of its 2022 Top Teaching Hospitals. Each year, the organization recognizes hospitals that have achieved “true excellence” and honor them with being named one of their top hospitals.

Rural gun-owning families responded favorably to a customized intervention to increase safe storage of rifles, handguns and other firearms in homes with children.

Mouse models show that activating a non-mutated form of the gene could lead to developing therapies for this deadly form of cancer. 

Black adults treated at advanced heart failure centers received potentially life-changing therapies, such as transplants and heart pumps, about half as often as white adults, possibly due to racial bias, a small National Institutes of Health-supported study has found. Visit our blog for the full story. Please note that this article was adapted from a NIH release.

The new program’s first direct enrollment patient shares his experience.

What do you do when you know a disease is reversible, even curable, and yet each year millions of people still suffer from it? For Amy Rothberg, M.D., you find a whole new way to help people not only lose weight, but in some cases even reverse a diabetes diagnosis.

Study finds shared genetics between two inherited diseases of the arteries.

New mental health diagnoses are common after a firearm injury or a motor vehicle crash injury in children and teens, but more common in those who have been shot.

For some women, it’s more than just premenstrual symptoms. 

Most heart transplant centers’ websites are written in language above the average American’s reading level, and more than a third have no resources for people who spoke a language other than English.

Health data analysts are an elusive bunch in the wild. While we see their names periodically show up as middle authors on manuscripts or in the Acknowledgement section they work largely behind the scenes; yet they play a vital role in conducting research that use large data. In this episode we speak with several health data analysts to better understand the role they play in research and, for all the researchers out there, discuss how to make the process as smooth as possible when working with an analyst.

After two birthdays in the hospital, she celebrated with a brand-new heart.