Health Lab Articles

Doctor holding child in surgical gear
Health Lab

What to Know About Applying to Medical School as a “Nontraditional”

A medical student answers questions and shares her personal advice for applying to medical school after first pursuing another career.
Man looking out window
Health Lab

Unique Approach Removes Stents to Fix Man’s Heart

Nearing the need for hospice at the age of 52, one patient underwent a rare heart surgery that not only removed his disease, but repaired his heart, and gave him back his life.
Image by Stephanie King.
Health Lab

Patients’ Social Factors Matter When Judging Hospitals, but New Study Suggests a Need to Measure Them Differently

Study using two databases suggests need for new measures in surgical readmission risk adjustment.
Luke clinic patients and doctors
Health Lab

Bringing Prenatal and Infant Care to Underserved Communities

The Luke Clinic provides free prenatal, postpartum and infant care (through one year of life) to any family in the Detroit metro area.
Aikens in atrium with plants
Health Lab

“They Put Him Back Together Again”

How Michigan Medicine helped one patient get back to mobility and life after a seven-story fall left him critically injured and paralyzed.
Health Lab

Reality Checks: Michigan Medical School Students Open Up

New documentary reveals the four-year medical school experience as told by the students who lived it.
Health Lab

Thrive With Your Family: Returning to “Normal”

Experts discuss feeling comfortable resuming everyday activities, dealing with lasting effects of social isolation and making the best out of future school plans.
Drawing of hospital bed on notebook paper
Health Lab

Ischemic Stroke Admissions, Life-Saving Thrombectomy Procedures Decrease During Start of COVID-19 Pandemic

Researchers call for a response to current and future pandemics to reduce unintended harm upon other patients needing early diagnosis and intervention.
In surgery room
Health Lab

Study: Mixed Progress in Efforts to Reduce Low Value Breast Cancer Surgery

A U-M review found national Choosing Wisely recommendations to reduce overtreatment in early stage breast cancer weren’t consistently followed.
Pills for perianal fistual
Health Lab

Serious Complication of Crohn’s Disease May Be Preventable in Young People

Risk of developing perianal fistula, a side effect of Crohn’s Disease common in children, may be reduced by utilizing steroid-sparing therapies.
stethoscope drawing
Health Lab

Use of Emergency Departments Plummets During COVID-19

A new commentary highlights the dramatic decline in emergency department visits during the COVID-19 pandemic and what could be causing the decrease.
this is a crisis stay safe blame critical keep up self-isolation policy enforce life in isolation global isolated id-19 panic critical surviving covid-19 quarant virus crisis isolation doctor suffering recovery pandemic virus fear shelves empty challenging times going self-isolation close border
Health Lab

4 Ways to Be a Savvy News Consumer in a Pandemic

As the rush to make, share and act on COVID-19 discoveries pushes scientists, public health agencies and reporters to act fast, individuals can be responsible news consumers and sharers.
Little girl sleeping in bed
Health Lab

Helping Your Kids Overcome Stress-Related Sleep Disruption

Without an alarm clock set for school, sleep routines are anything but routine right now in many homes. A sleep psychologist shares what parents should know.
microscope in lab
Health Lab

Looking to Mouse, Macaque and Human Germ Cells for New Insight into Infertility

Researchers are comparing the way genes are expressed in thousands of these sperm-forming cells in mice, macaques and humans to look for similarities and differences. This comparison provides clues about how sperm has evolved in mammals.
Health Lab

How A Bone Marrow Recipient Found His Perfect Match

When Dan Wagner’s leukemia came back, he was devastated. Now he’s celebrating five years’ cancer-free, thanks to his donor and new life-long friend.