Health & Medicine

  1. January 10, 2025

    Pharmacists to help tackle health disparities at tribal clinics

    U-M will embed pharmacists in at least five tribal health clinics in Michigan, where they will work alongside physicians and clinic staff and engage in education and outreach.

  2. January 9, 2025

    Youth drug use defies expectations, continues to decline

    Adolescent drug use continued to drop in 2024, building on and extending the historically large decreases that occurred during the pandemic onset in 2020.

  3. January 8, 2025

    Smartphone-based incentives target those with substance use disorders

    U-M is launching a program to use smartphones in the care of individuals with substance use disorders by rewarding positive behaviors with money, gift cards and vouchers.

  4. January 8, 2025

    Active U marks 20 years of encouraging U-M to move

    Active U, MHealthy’s 12-week physical activity challenge, celebrates its 20th anniversary this year, continuing the tradition of encouraging the U-M community to get moving.

  5. December 5, 2024

    U-M report: Program reduces homelessness, utility insecurity

    A Michigan pilot program created to help improve health outcomes for pregnant parents and their children shows positive impacts on families, according to a new report from the Youth Policy Lab.

  6. December 4, 2024

    Global health equity center receives additional $10M donation

    A $10 million gift to U-M’s Center for Global Health Equity has led to the center’s directorship being named for Tachi and Leslie Yamada, who have played pivotal roles in its launch and development.

  7. December 4, 2024

    Challenge honors innovative approaches to health disparities

    Launched in fall 2023, the Michigan Health Equity Challenge engages graduate students across U-M to develop proposals aimed at improving health outcomes in the state.

  8. December 3, 2024

    LSA professor studies anti-aging interventions, diseases

    An LSA professor is studying how to extend the healthy years of human life by building biological resistance against the many diseases that we face as we get older.

  9. December 2, 2024

    $10M grant will help expand complex-care spaces at Mott Hospital

    A $10 million grant from the Charles Stewart Mott Foundation will enable C.S. Mott Children’s Hospital to renovate space within its neonatal and pediatric cardiothoracic intensive care units.

  10. November 27, 2024

    UM Health Plan, Michigan Care to end after 2025

    Michigan Medicine will discontinue the UM Health Plan and the Michigan Care and Michigan Care Advantage plans it operates, effective at the end of 2025. The move does not affect current or 2025 Michigan Care benefits.