Health & Medicine
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May 21, 2016
Incentives paid to improve health care have little impact in U.K.
The world’s largest primary pay-for-performance program designed to improve patient health care and outcomes has failed to save additional lives, a U-M researcher says.
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May 19, 2016
Brighton health center to offer more than 40 medical services
The Board of Regents have approved a schematic design and authorization to issue bids and award contracts for a new 297,000-square-foot health center in Brighton.
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May 19, 2016
Childhood obesity research among U-M projects in West Michigan
Research into childhood obesity among Head Start preschoolers is one of several projects U-M faculty and staff are engaged with in western Michigan.
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May 13, 2016
U-M joins new national initiative to enhance microbiome research
The White House has announced U-M is part of the National Microbiome Initiative to enhance research and education about microbes that live in our bodies and the environment.
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May 10, 2016
U-M to work on ways to share rare-disease treatment evidence
A $900,000 funding award to the School of Public Health will allow researchers to develop methods to analyze treatment evidence for rare diseases.
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April 26, 2016
Community, multiuniversity partnership to address Flint health challenges
Flint community partners, along with UM-Flint, U-M and MSU, have announced a new partnership to help address the current and future status of residents and their health.
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April 21, 2016
Executive vice dean for academic affairs named at Medical School
Dr. Carol R. Bradford, an internationally recognized head and neck cancer researcher and faculty leader with a track record in promoting diversity, is the Medical School’s executive vice dean for academic affairs.
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April 18, 2016
Stop the growth: U-M researchers take aim at cancer metastasis
Researchers at the Life Sciences Institute are taking aim at a different piece of the cancer puzzle — preventing its ability to spread to new parts of the body.
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February 22, 2016
University continues special procedures to deal with norovirus
The university will continue this week using special virus-related cleaning procedures as it monitors an outbreak of norovirus on U-M’s Ann Arbor campus.
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February 19, 2016
Norovirus confirmed as cause of student illness on Ann Arbor campus
The Michigan Department of Health and Human Services has confirmed norovirus as the cause of an outbreak of vomiting and diarrhea that has affected students on U-M’s Ann Arbor campus.
