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Researchers: ‘Choosing Wisely’ Off to a Strong Start, but It’s Time to Evolve

The movement to reduce overtesting and overtreatment is blossoming, but much more work is needed to cut back on low-value care.
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Swimming for Gold at Age 85, Despite Heart Disease

Aortic stenosis can’t keep this six-time National Senior Games medal winner out of the water.
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Offsetting Hearing Loss’ Long-Term Consequences with Early Diagnoses

Hearing loss affects about 17 percent of Americans, but screening and referral for evaluation is rarely done. A recent feasibility study suggests an electronic intervention may help.
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Diagnosed with Breast Cancer: Now What?

A Michigan Medicine breast oncologist offers advice to help newly diagnosed patients navigate the early days of evaluation and developing a treatment plan.
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Students Promote Lifesaving Power of Organ and Tissue Donation

In advance of a yearly registration event, two U-M students — a bone marrow recipient and the daughter of a heart transplant patient — work to increase donor awareness.
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To Curb Urinary Complications After Outpatient Surgery, Bathroom Breaks Are Key

A Michigan Medicine nurse recently studied how to reduce urinary retention issues in patients anesthetized for outpatient surgery. Now, her work has wider potential.
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TOS: When Swelling in the Arm Turns Serious

Scary symptoms sent a young, healthy mother to the emergency room, resulting in a venous thoracic outlet syndrome diagnosis. What others should know.
Arvin George, M.D.
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New Prostate Cancer Treatment Offers Precision (and Fewer Side Effects)

Recently adjusted prostate cancer treatment guidelines based on new prostate research could affect two-thirds of men
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How Primary Care Doctors Can Help Patients Beat Opioid Addiction

Using the medication-assisted treatment (MAT) approach, primary care doctors and teams can help patients with opioid addiction, how to prevent it.
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How Hospitals Respond When It’s Uncertain If the Newborn Is a Boy or a Girl

In differences of sex development, hospitals vary widely in terms of treatment and guidance ahead of irreversible procedures, a new study shows.
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After Head Injury, U-M Student Benefits from Brain Trauma ICU

A fall from a second-story roof could have been fatal for a college freshman. Thanks to a specialized intensive care unit at Michigan Medicine, the student is back on campus.
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How U-M’s Genetic Research Bank Fuels Precision Health Work

Campuswide genetic science programs are helping researchers pinpoint new ways to treat heart disease, cancer, diabetes and more.
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What to Do When a Loved One with Lewy Body Dementia Is Hospitalized

Helping a loved one with Lewy body dementia navigate the hospital requires caretakers to be advocates and educators. One woman offers strategic advice.
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Breast Cancer in Men: What All Guys Should Know

One in eight men are diagnosed with breast cancer. Find out five facts about male breast cancer, including information on risk factors and how its treated.
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These Surgeons Wanted to Prescribe Fewer Opioids. So They Developed a Guide for All to Use

A free guide to opioid prescribing recommendations for surgery created by surgeons to address post surgery pain medications and opioids.