Health Lab Articles
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Acne Scar Treatment Helps Transform Teen’s Look, Confidence
After being told skin damage from her severe acne couldn’t be reversed, a young woman sought answers — and found results — at Michigan Medicine.
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A Grass-Roots Effort to Make Colon Surgery Safer
Work to reduce surgical site infections, sepsis and more at dozens of hospitals across Michigan shows promise — but room to improve.
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Interactive Tool Can Help Educate Cancer Patients on Their Options
Breast cancer patients who used an interactive website were more informed about options and felt better prepared to make a treatment choice.
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Liver Cancer Rates Are Rising. Do You Know the Treatable Risk Factors?
Learn about the risks of chronic liver disease, the treatable liver disease factors and how rates of liver cancer have increased.
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Rare Vascular Disease Moves ‘Fighter’ Patient to Ministry
One young man’s struggles with Klippel-Trenaunay syndrome have served to strengthen his faith and shape his career.
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From a Freshman Year ‘F’ to a Third-Year Med Student
One student’s story — as the first in his family to attend college — highlights the importance of retaining motivated students of color interested in medicine.
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4 Things You Need to Know Right Now to Protect Yourself from the Flu
Get answers to your most pressing questions about this year's flu, including what symptoms to be concerned about, from the University of Michigan.
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Boosting a Key Protein to Help Bones That Won’t Heal
Read about how a powerful protein inside the body, Jagged-1 can naturally repair bone injuries and assist with jump-start the process of bone injury healing.
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10 Great Children’s Books for Talking About Surgery, Sickness and Feelings
Storytime can provide more than entertainment; it’s a way to discuss difficult topics with your little ones. A Mott child life specialist shares several books that can help.
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After Completing Cardiac Rehab, a Mission to Recruit Others
A lot has changed since one man’s near-fatal cardiac arrest. The biggest shift: volunteering with the cardiac rehabilitation program that saved his life.
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Plotting the Downward Trend in Traditional Hysterectomy
Read about minimally invasive hysterectomy procedures and other alternatives to traditional total abdominal hysterectomies, causing a decline trend in traditional hysterectomy procedures.
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Can My Child Be an Organ Donor? What Parents Should Know
Young organ donors offer a key lifeline to other sick children in need. But misconception and fear can cloud the idea of donation, a new poll has found.
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Food Safety
Just as seat belts and helmets protect kids from injuries, a careful approach to food safety can help safeguard your family from food poisoning and food borne illness...
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Headaches
Headaches in children are very common, with 20 percent of kids—preschoolers through teenagers—reporting frequent or severe headaches each year...
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Iron deficiency and anemia in kids: what to know
Since iron is important for energy, muscle function, and brain development, a child who is not getting enough iron can have learning or behavioral problems...
