Health Lab Articles
Health Lab
Changing the Sports Medicine Game for Female Athletes
MedSport female providers tailor sports injury care to their female patients, and educate athletes, parents and colleagues in sports medicine.
Health Lab
Mask Use Low When People Visit With Friends
While nearly all Americans use a mask at some point each week, very few consistently wear their mask during many common potentially risky activities, study shows.
Health Lab
Confused About What to Do After a COVID Test or Exposure? Start Here
Do you have to quarantine if you’ve gotten the COVID-19 vaccine? Who has to go into isolation after a coronavirus exposure, and for how long? A handy guide.
Health Lab
Treating Sleep Apnea May Reduce Dementia Risk
People with obstructive sleep apnea who treat their apnea with the commonly-prescribed positive airway pressure therapy were less likely to be diagnosed with dementia.
Health Lab
Addressing the Cumulative Cost of COVID-19 for Communities of Color
Two translational research social scientists offer six practical solutions to follow.
Health Lab
Toddler with Spina Bifida Meets Paralympian: “She has crutches like me”
Young patient’s reaction to commercial featuring gold medalist and double amputee Jessica Long goes viral, leads to Zoom introduction.
Health Lab
Off the Air and Into the O.R.
When Detroit radio personality “Mojo in the Morning” needed heart surgery, Michigan Medicine was there for him, in and out of the operating room.
Health Lab
Parenting Conflicts May Stall Career Growth for Physician Moms
Study finds that physician parents often turn down career-advancing opportunities and aren’t comfortable discussing work-family conflicts with leaders. How pandemic-era changes may help.
Health Lab
Virtual “Urgent Care” May Lead to Higher Rates of Downstream Follow-Up Care, Study Suggests
Direct-to-consumer telehealth is a growing industry, especially for urgent care after business hours, but it may not prevent downstream appointments as much as hoped.
Health Lab
A Few Hundred Dollars Makes a Difference in Use of Long-Lasting Birth Control
LARC use by women in high-deductible health plans rose faster than use by other women after Affordable Care Act cut cost.
Health Lab
6 Key Facts About Clinical Trials
Why you should consider participating in a clinical trial and what to expect from the experience.
Health Lab
Dr. Valbuena’s Michigan Answer: Being empowered to empower others
Most aspiring physicians study medicine with the hopes of saving lives, being on the cutting edge of research, or developing the latest therapies and technologies. For Dr. Valeria Valbuena, it was all of the above, plus one additional life-affirming goal.
Health Lab
Kade’s Michigan Answer: Becoming who he really was
Alone. Scared. Never knowing who to trust or where to turn for help. That’s how Kade Fitzgerald of Jackson, Michigan lived the first 32 years of his life. Assigned female at birth, Kade knew at age 6 that he was meant to be a man.
Health Lab
‘It Was Definitely Worth It’- Conquering Back Pain and Baseball
After injuring his back, one baseball player was able to get back to the game he loves with some minor spine surgery and help from Michigan Medicine
Health Lab
Carter’s Michigan Answer: The state’s first spina bifida fetal surgery
Imaging revealed that Carter had a spinal cord defect called spina bifida, a condition that ranges in level of severity and has the ability to render a child unable to walk or have normal bowel and bladder function. While the solution for this delicate condition has always been surgery outside of the womb, Michigan Medicine had a different answer – surgery in the womb.
