Health & Medicine
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January 13, 2020
Three in one: How academic medical centers came to be
Today, we take them for granted, but the idea for three-in-one academic medical centers — combining patient care, medical education and research — began at U-M.
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December 16, 2019
Michigan Medicine kicks off celebration of 150th anniversary
Michigan Medicine has launched a celebration to mark 150 years since the creation of U-M’s first hospital — the start of an academic medical center that has helped transform care everywhere.
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December 16, 2019
Some key facts about Michigan Medicine’s history
Facts about the history of U-M hospitals.
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December 11, 2019
Hospital construction start to affect Medical Campus wayfinding
Construction will begin later this month on U-M’s new adult hospital , which will affect travel, parking and pedestrian routes in that area of the Medical Campus.
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December 9, 2019
Peter Toogood to direct Michigan Drug Discovery
Peter Toogood will become director of Michigan Drug Discovery, the university-spanning collaboration to support and accelerate drug discovery projects, in January.
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November 25, 2019
Software tool can design new tuberculosis drug regimens
With a shortage of new tuberculosis drugs in the pipeline, a software tool from U-M can predict how current drugs can be combined in new ways to create more effective treatments.
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November 25, 2019
Precision Health Investigators Awards fund seven teams
Seven projects that exemplify the breadth of approaches encompassed by precision health research will receive $300,000 over two years through Precision Health’s 2019 Investigators Awards.
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November 19, 2019
U-M, state launch website to guide safe pain treatment
U-M’s Injury Prevention Center helped launch an online toolkit that provides health providers and patients with guidance to make pain care safer, prevent opioid-related harms, and find substance use treatment.
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November 18, 2019
REMINDER: There’s still time to get a flu shot on campus
Winter weather brings with it flu season, but U-M employees, spouses or other qualified adults, and retirees still can get a flu vaccine at walk-in campus clinics scheduled through January.
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November 13, 2019
Recent U-M health benefit led to increased IVF rates
Research has found that since 2015, when U-M added coverage for infertility treatments, the use of in vitro fertilization increased more than nine times among women in the university’s lowest-salary bracket.
