Senior Public Relations Representative
Urban was a previous Health Lab contributor and member of the public relations team.
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Health Lab
A Michigan Medicine nursing coworker becomes her new friend, and colleagues, surrogate.
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Health Lab
The path to recovery after experiencing every parents’ worst nightmare: stillbirth.
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Health Lab
A rare autoimmune disease, myositis, caused one man to need a double lung transplant. Now that he’s recovered, he’s back to his favorite activities once again.
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Health Lab
How three former gymnasts apply lessons learned to their medical careers.
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Health Lab
Once viewed as a pediatric condition, patients with cerebral palsy are aging, but the health care system is not prepared to offer them the care they need.
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Health Lab
A new study analyzes the potential transmission risk of airborne respiratory pathogens during bystander-initiated cardiopulmonary resuscitation, or CPR.
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Health Lab
An emergency department employee had a chance encounter with the Survival Flight nurse that cared for her father when she was six years old.
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Health Lab
By studying the roles of an inflammatory protein and antibodies in chronic rejection after lung transplantation, researchers discover possibilities for new treatments.
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Health Lab
A new paper analyzes the metrics used to evaluate organ procurement organizations and proposes three complimentary metrics to reflect more accurate and equitable performance rankings.
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Health Lab
New research uses a unique survey tool to understand how caring for a person with TBI impacts the caregiver’s mental health and well-being.
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Health Lab
A recent paper highlights concerns around access to medical treatment and medical rationing decisions for people with disabilities during the COVID-19 pandemic.
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Health Lab
Critical care researchers and veterans are bringing devices used to stop hemorrhage bleeds on the battlefield to civilian life.
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Health Lab
A new study finds physicians and other health care professionals have different voting behaviors than other professions and the general public.
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Health Lab
A recent paper found more than three-quarters of first-year medical students were more comfortable approaching patients with disabilities in clinical settings after completing an educational session.
News Release
Donate blood during the largest blood drive on the University of Michigan’s Ann Arbor campus hosted by Wolverines for Life