Health Lab

Two research papers describe how long-read nanopore sequencing can detect alterations in cancer cells that might be missed by conventional sequencing.

University of Michigan researchers found a new protein target PP2A and developed a drug to treat non-small cell lung cancers that have KRAS mutations.

Sixty percent of older adults spend less than an hour choosing their Medicare coverage during Open Enrollment, a new poll finds.

The United States Drug Enforcement Agency has announced it will place non-botanical products containing 7-OH on Schedule I, joining three other synthetic opioids, effectively removing them the market, leaving natural leaf kratom available amid a shortage of addiction treatment providers.

Researchers at University of Michigan Health and collaborating institutions have identified a metabolic enzyme that may offer a fundamentally new way to attack one of the most difficult-to-treat features of systemic sclerosis, or scleroderma: progressive and potentially life threatening tissue scarring.

New onset depression in obstetrics and gynecology residents in their intern year is common and often untreated, and linked to depression history, higher work hours and less sleep.