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What to Do After a Liver Disease Diagnosis
Liver disease diagnosis and treatment depend on the type of liver condition. Here are some thoughts on what’s next for treating liver disease conditions.
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What Kids of Different Ages Understand About Cancer
From toddlers to teens, young people process news of a parent’s cancer diagnosis differently. Learn how perceptions evolve over time — and strategies for conversation.
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What’s It Worth? New Shingles Vaccine Offers a Chance to Measure the Value of Prevention
Learn about Shingrix, a vaccine to prevent shingles in older adults coming to market in 2018, and how this shingles immunization will continue to be evaluated.
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When CPAP Doesn’t Work: Surgery Offers Relief for Sleep Apnea Patient
Learn about maxillomandibular advancement, a surgery to treat sleep apnea that repositions the jaw and is ideal for patients who cannot tolerate CPAP treatment.
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Study: Hospitals No Longer Top Provider of Cataract Surgeries
Ocular surgeries are steadily shifting away from hospitals, a move that offers convenience and financial perks. But questions of safety and accessibility remain.
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Lack of Communication Puts Older Adults at Risk of Clashes Between Medicines
Many adults haven’t talked to their doctors, pharmacists or nurses about drug interactions, a new national poll finds.
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Living with a Ventricular Assist Device: Support (and a Safety Lesson) Can Help
Knowing how to operate and care for a ventricular assist device doesn’t just give patients confidence to leave the hospital. It also allows them to adjust to home life.
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Specialist: New Hypertension Guidelines Will Facilitate Earlier Intervention
A Michigan Medicine hypertension specialist, who was part of the team behind the newly released high blood pressure recommendations, explains what’s changed.
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Pancreatic Cancer Patient Faces the Future with Humor, Love and Art
Rose Mary Worthen wasn’t expected to live more than a year after her diagnosis. Four years later, she’s using her art — and her sense of humor — to spread hope.
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The Risk Factors That Mean You Need a Test for Liver Disease
Tests for liver disease include blood function tests or ultrasounds. Baby boomers have a high risk of liver disease and show other liver damage symptoms.
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A New Way to Track How Deadly ‘Superbugs’ Travel Could Slow Their Spread
Using a real-world outbreak as a test case, a team combined patient transfer data and whole-genome sequencing to identify hot spots for antibiotic-resistant bacteria transmission.
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Teen’s Lifesaving TAVR Gives Family a Special Holiday Gift
A 16-year-old became the youngest patient at Michigan Medicine to have his aortic valve replaced using a transcatheter procedure. One year later, he’s thriving.
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OSU-Michigan Rivalry Put Aside to Save Twin Babies in Trouble
When a rare complication was revealed during pregnancy, a highly specialized fetal procedure at U-M was the only answer for this Buckeye family.
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As a Mom of a Child with a Craniofacial Syndrome, I'm Seeking Acceptance
As the new movie Wonder encourages people of all ages to “choose kind,” one mother reflects on how Auggie’s story powerfully connected to her and her family.
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New Approach to Studying Centromeres May Reveal Link to Down Syndrome and More
A PCR-based approach to a frontier of the human genome could speed discovery in chromosome-based diseases and birth defects.
