Health & Medicine
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March 9, 2023
Program encourages small changes for better sleep
Most people will spend about one-third of their lives asleep. MHealthy’s Good Night, Sleep Right challenge is designed to ensure most of this time is quality rest.
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March 6, 2023
U-M expands well-being, mental health support for students, employees
Students on the Ann Arbor campus now have access to up to six free counseling sessions per year, including same-day appointments, and U-M recently hired a chief behavioral health strategist for faculty and staff.
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February 6, 2023
UM-Flint offers customizable master’s in health services administration
UM-Flint’s College of Health Sciences is now offering a customizable Master of Science in Health Services Administration for fall 2023, allowing students to custom-build a degree with the skills that interest them most.
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February 3, 2023
Brain health, concussions, sports: A long-term connection?
The Michigan Alumni Brain Health Study will examine whether sport participation and concussions are associated with later-life brain health in former U-M athletes and nonathletes.
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February 1, 2023
Occupational therapist adds custom touch to patients’ hand splints
Augusta Simmons, a board-certified hand therapist, has been fitting patients with splints for over 25 years, the past six at the Northville Health Center.
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January 17, 2023
It’s not too late to get a flu shot or COVID-19 booster
U-M faculty, staff and students can visit one of four campus pop-up clinics this month at South Quad or Pierpont Commons for a flu shot or COVID-19 booster.
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January 5, 2023
Tracking treatment in real time promises safer cancer therapy
Radiation, used to treat half of all cancer patients, can be measured during treatment for the first time with precise 3D imaging developed at U-M.
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January 5, 2023
Michigan Medicine Blood Bank recently opens in new space
The Michigan Medicine Blood Bank recently opened in a new facility that took six years to plan. It replaces a cramped 36-year-old space just next door in University Hospital.
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December 15, 2022
U-M researchers seek to speed discovery of drugs
Timothy Cernak’s laboratory at the College of Pharmacy was awarded $3 million by Schmidt Futures recently to develop molecular reaction data using high-throughput experimentation, and the software to process it.
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December 15, 2022
U-M poll: Older adults wary of mixing health care, religion
When it comes to matters of personal beliefs, most older Americans prefer to keep their health care and their spiritual or religious lives separate, according to U-M’s National Poll on Healthy Aging.
