Health & Medicine
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July 13, 2016
Rivals Challenge results announced; 13 million exercise minutes logged
The University of Michigan may not have come out victorious over Ohio State in the first-ever Rivals Challenge but U-M participants were successful in logging millions of exercise minutes and raising $1,600 for Project Health Schools.
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July 11, 2016
Bylaw revisions proposed
Revisions to the University of Michigan Board of Regents bylaws and University of Michigan Health System bylaws are proposed in support of the reorganization and alignment efforts underway at UMHS.
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June 16, 2016
Roger Cone named director of Life Sciences Institute
Roger D. Cone, a distinguished obesity researcher and experienced administrator, will serve as the new Mary Sue Coleman Director of U-M’s Life Sciences Institute, effective Sept. 1.
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June 16, 2016
Forbes’ $17.5 million gift to help stimulate cancer research
A $17.5 million commitment for cancer research from Madeline and Sidney Forbes will create the Forbes Institute for Cancer Discovery within the U-M Comprehensive Cancer Center.
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June 16, 2016
U-M Health System reports strong financial results, growth
The U-M Health System ended the 2016 fiscal year with an anticipated 4.2 percent operating margin on budgeted operating revenues of $3.1 billion for the U-M Hospitals, Health Centers and the Medical Group.
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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.
