Health & Medicine

  1. 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.

  2. 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.

  3. 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.

  4. 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.

  5. 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.

  6. 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.

  7. November 18, 2024

    C.S. Mott Children’s Hospital study examines anger in kids

    The C.S. Mott Children’s Hospital National Poll on Children’s Health revealed that some parents may find it challenging to help their kids manage intense emotions such as anger.

  8. November 5, 2024

    Student project still changing the world — one preemie at a time

    When Grace Hsia Haberl was a College of Engineering senior, she helped develop the technology behind a non-electric warming device called an IncuBlanket.

  9. October 30, 2024

    U-M receives $50M gift for pancreatic cancer care, research

    With a $50 million gift from Richard and Susan Rogel, U-M Health’s Rogel Cancer Center aims to revolutionize how the world detects, treats and ultimately cures pancreatic cancer.

  10. October 24, 2024

    UM-Flint receives $3.94M grant to address rural nursing shortage

    The UM-Flint School of Nursing has launched an initiative aimed at addressing the critical nursing shortage in Michigan’s Thumb region, backed by a $3.94 million federal grant.