Health & Medicine
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October 17, 2024
Things to consider when choosing health insurance for 2025
Whether it’s Medicare, Medicaid, job-based coverage, veteran’s benefits or buying your own, experts say it’s important to take time, or seek help, to make the best choice for the coming year.
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October 16, 2024
U-M receives $30M to expand work on precision health
A $30 million national award will help the TOPMed Informatics Research Center at U-M enhance the usability of vast amounts of genetic and genomic health data.
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October 16, 2024
U-M awarded $3.6M to study post‑surgery pain management
U-M will use a new $3.6 million federal grant to study how pain and opioids after surgery affect people with opioid use disorder and how to prevent opioid-related harms.
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October 11, 2024
Campus clinics have COVID‑19, flu vaccines available
All U-M vaccination clinics listed on the 2024 Ann Arbor Campus Vaccination Clinic Schedule now offer the updated COVID-19 vaccine along with the annual influenza vaccine.
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October 9, 2024
Three Medical School faculty receive prestigious NIH awards
Three U-M investigators have been acknowledged by the National Institutes of Health’s prestigious High-Risk, High-Reward Research program.
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October 7, 2024
It Happened at Michigan — ‘New era for dental students’
In 1875, Gov. John J. Bagley signed a bill enabling the Board of Regents to establish and maintain a dental school in connection with the Medical School.
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October 2, 2024
U-M to be a research hub for health equity work
The School of Public Health will receive $6.75 million to establish a health equity research hub to help strengthen efforts to reverse health disparities. U-M is one of five institutions sharing $37 million from the National Institutes of Health.
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September 26, 2024
Michigan Medicine notifies patients of health information breach
Michigan Medicine is notifying approximately 57,891 individuals about an employee email account that was compromised, potentially exposing some patient health information.
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September 24, 2024
Poll asks who plans to get updated COVID‑19 vaccine
The updated COVID-19 vaccine just arrived in pharmacies and clinics nationwide, and U-M’s National Poll on Healthy Aging suggests nearly half of people age 50 and older plan to get it.
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September 24, 2024
Safe medication and sharps disposal planned Oct. 1 at two locations
The Safe Medication Disposal Event by the College of Pharmacy offers two locations for the safe disposal of unused and expired medications Oct. 1.
