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GI Monitoring App
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A Tool to Improve the Way Physicians and Patients Talk About GI Issues

Discover how a discreet app can help improve physician and patient communication around GI symptoms.
Prosthetic Eye Craftsmanship
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Making Prosthetic Eyes That Look Like the Real Thing

Learn more about the intricacies of prosthetic eye craftsmanship in this article about ocularist Greg Dootz at the University of Michigan’s Kellog Eye Center, who has hand crafted prosthetic eyes for more than 3,000 patients.
Bad habits
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How do you break your child's bad habits?

Children often develop habits or behaviors that their parents find annoying. Understanding why your child has developed this habit or behavior is the first step in changing it...
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When the Doctor Recommends Against the Surgery a Breast Cancer Patient Wants

A new study from the University of Michigan Comprehensive Cancer Center examines the complex interaction between patients’ desires for the most extensive treatment and surgeons’ responsibility to minimize harm.
Prostate Cancer Biopsy
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How Technology Is Making Prostate Cancer Biopsies More Precise

Learn more about how Michigan Medicine specialists are combining new techniques to improve prostate cancer diagnosis.
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Walk Yourself to Better Health with These 6 Easy Steps

Read these tips for making walking exercise, and the health benefits that come with it, part of your normal routine.
Babysitter safety
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What parents need to know about babysitter safety

Finding a good babysitter can be tough. How do you go about choosing one? What should you tell the babysitter before you leave? When is it safe to leave your child home alone...
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How Oncologists Can Help Oral Chemotherapy Patients Manage Their Adherence

Learn how oncology practices can help improve the safety and quality of care for cancer patients administering oral chemotherapy at home.
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Predicting — and Preventing — Psychiatric Morbidity After ARDS

Michigan Medicine researchers sought to find out if they can anticipate who will be affected by psychiatric morbidity after surviving acute respiratory distress syndrome.
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Excessive Throwing Puts Baseball Players at Risk

Year-round pitching can lead to devastating injuries for baseball players. A Michigan Medicine orthopaedic sports medicine surgeon and researcher explains why research on the subject is valuable to athletes of any sport.
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Beating Stage 4 Colon Cancer with Trust, Treatment and Community

Stage 4 colon cancer survivor Phil Scamihorn shares his inspiring journey to becoming cancer-free after a colon cancer diagnosis in 2012.
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A ‘Hard Decision’ of Surgery Brings Relief from Severe Epilepsy

Learn how severe pediatric epilepsy led one family to a hemispherectomy — a complex and specialized surgery and why, within days of the procedure, their lives were transformed.
Ear Pain
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Ear pain: what is it and how to fix it

Ear pain, or otalgia, can be a common reason children visit a pediatrician. There are several causes of ear pain, including teething, sore throat, ear infection, or blocked Eustachian tubes...
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‘Why I became a doctor’: Michigan Medicine physicians share their stories

Learn more about why these Michigan Medicine physicians decided to become doctors and the paths that led to them to the medical profession
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A Cheerleader’s Rallying Cry: Don’t Ignore Colon Cancer Symptoms

Read about how this nursing student faces the future with a cheerful determination after being Diagnosed with colon cancer as a teenager.