Health & Medicine
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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.
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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.
