Health & Medicine
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June 20, 2024
U-M Health reports positive financial performance for FY ’24
Michigan Medicine is projecting positive 2024 fiscal year-end results for its clinical operations, with an anticipated 2.9% — or $226.5 million — operating margin on forecasted operating revenues of $7.9 billion.
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June 20, 2024
U-M Health appoints architect for Troy clinical facility
U-M Health will commission Hobbs + Black Architects of Ann Arbor to design a 220,000-square-foot clinical facility in Troy, after approval by the Board of Regents.
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June 18, 2024
Surgeon builds sustainable kidney transplant program in Rwanda
Jeffrey Punch, professor of surgery in the Medical School, has helped launch kidney transplant programs in both Ethiopia and Rwanda.
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June 13, 2024
$6.7M grant to fund study of flu immunity in children
U-M researcher Aubree Gordon has been awarded a $6.7 million, five-year grant to advance her innovative research into influenza immunity development among children.
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May 16, 2024
U-M Health to improve access with University Hospital renovation
U-M Health will renovate part of University Hospital, creating 26 incremental private observation rooms to help ease crowding in the emergency department.
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May 13, 2024
Mother relives congenital heart journey through newborn
When Mackenzie Lampe learned her son, Jeremiah, would need the same aortic valve repair that she had, she knew who she wanted to oversee her son’s care: pediatric heart surgeon Richard Oyhe.
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May 10, 2024
Pair receives Javits Award for work on stroke health disparities
Two U-M researchers have received the Javits Neuroscience Investigator Award from the National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke for their work on stroke health disparities in Mexican Americans.
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April 29, 2024
Young heart transplant recipient fights off cancer with toughness
Roman DiLeo was born in June 2022 and needed several life-saving medical procedures – from heart pumps to a heart transplant. Roman is not only a fighter but a cancer survivor.
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April 29, 2024
It Happened at Michigan — Family trees and the ‘striking incidence’ of cancer
For years, U-M pathologist Aldred Scott Warthin studied the lives — and deaths from cancer — of an extended Ann Arbor family.
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April 24, 2024
Medical marijuana use decreased in recreational‑use states
Recent data on medical cannabis use found enrollment in medical cannabis programs increased overall from 2016-22, but decreased in states where nonmedical cannabis use became legal.
