Health Lab Articles

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Cardiac Arrest, Poor Survival Rates Common in Sickest Patients with COVID-19

Study shows critically ill patients with the novel coronavirus have high rates of cardiac arrest and poor outcomes even after CPR, an effect most strongly seen in older patients.
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Medicaid Expansion Improved Insurance Stability for Low-Income Pregnant Women

In states with expanded Medicaid eligibility, pregnant people were more likely to have continuous health care insurance around the time of pregnancy.
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Finding Relief from Seasonal Allergies

If you suffer from seasonal allergies, learning how to relieve your seasonal allergy symptoms could make all the difference as the seasons change.
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Are Organ Transplant Recipients at Greater Risk of Death from COVID-19?

A new study analyzes death risk from COVID-19 in organ transplant recipients and finds one treatment method greatly increased the risk.
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Hospitals Participate in Federal Bundled Payment Program When in Their Financial Interest

Researchers explore the relationship between the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services financial incentives and hospital participation in a voluntary advanced alternative payment program.
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Mobile Clinic Gives Free Prenatal Services to Detroit Moms

The Luke Clinic brings free prenatal and obstetric services to individuals in need.
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Bringing Precision Medicine to Ophthalmology

Innovative device ensures doctors obtain adequate fluid samples from the eye, helping with diagnosis and individualized treatment plans for patients.
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Feeling Stressed or Down in a World with COVID? Try This Writing Tool

A new tool uses expressive writing to help cancer patients, others cope with life challenges during the coronavirus pandemic.
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1 in 3 Parents Plan to Skip Flu Shots for Their Kids During COVID-19 Pandemic

National Poll finds COVID-19 may not influence parents’ beliefs about the flu vaccine, with just 1/3 believing it’s more important for children to get vaccinated in 2020.
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ECMO: Last-Resort Life Support Option Helped Majority of Critically Ill COVID-19 Patients Survive, Global Study Shows

Survival rates for COVID-19 patients on ECMO life support is similar to that for other ARDS causes, a new study finds.
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Nonalcoholic Fatty Liver Disease and Heart Failure: Is There a Connection?

A Michigan Medicine team looks into the prevalence of NAFLD in patients with heart failure with preserved ejection fraction.
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Scientists Train Computers to Recognize Which Early Stage Breast Cancers Will Spread

The new approach could help doctors to separate aggressive stage 0 breast cancer from non-aggressive forms, sparing some women unnecessary mastectomies.
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A 4-Year-Old’s Journey with Sickle Cell Disease

After Shavonn Burgess got her daughter’s diagnosis, she had no idea how her family would cope. Now, after a year of blood transfusions and spleen removal, they’ve found a new normal.
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Hail Fellows, Well Met!

Though they often receive little fanfare, postdocs are critical to the success of the Rogel Cancer Center’s research programs.
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Boy With Cleft Lip Adopts Puppy With Cleft Lip: “It Was Meant to Be”

A chance visit to a local animal shelter leads one Mott Children’s patient family to the perfect pet match for their 2-year-old son.