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Background and research:
- Ivermectin Rx for COVID-19: Insurance coverage doesn't match evidence
- Drug That Calms 'Cytokine Storm' Associated with 45% Lower Risk of Dying among COVID-19 Patients on Ventilators
- What Do Teens and Young Adults Need to Get Through the Pandemic? Survey Gives Insights
- Mask Resistance During a Pandemic Isn't New – in 1918 Many Americans Were 'Slackers'
- COVID-19 Through the Lens of Basic Science
- 1 in 3 Parents Plan to Skip Flu Shots for Their Kids During COVID-19 Pandemic
- Too Many COVID-19 Patients Get Unneeded "Just in Case" Antibiotics
- Adapting Common Fall Sports for People with Disabilities
- Testing the Deceased Could Provide Additional Surveillance Methods During Pandemic
- ECMO: Last-Resort Life Support Option Helped Majority of Critically Ill COVID-19 Patients Survive, Global Study Shows
- Real-Time Overdose Tracking Helps Show COVID-19's Effects
- Proactivity and Partnership Pay Off for Nursing Homes in a Pandemic
- App Calculates Risk of Delaying Cancer Care During Pandemic
- How to Improve the Surgery Backlog During COVID-19
- Cardiac Arrest, Poor Survival Rates Common in Sickest Patients with COVID-19
- Are Organ Transplant Recipients at Greater Risk of Death from COVID-19?
- New Cause of COVID-19 Blood Clots Identified
- Partnership with Veterans Brings New Medical Devices to Prehospital Settings
- ECMO: Last-Resort Life Support Option Helped Majority of Critically Ill COVID-19 Patients Survive, Global Study Shows
- Leveraging Prostate Cancer Research Against COVID-19
- African Americans with Type 2 Diabetes, Kidney Disease at Higher Risk of COVID-19 Hospitalization
- During Pandemic, Medical Students Volunteer to Ensure No One Dies Alone
- Too Many COVID-19 Patients Get Unneeded "Just in Case" Antibiotics
- Telehealth Visits Skyrocket for Older Adults, but Concerns and Barriers Remain
- Why the Relationship Between Kids and the Spread of COVID Remains Unclear
- Outside Looking In: Hospital Visitor Rules Vary During Pandemic
- Is COVID-19 Widening the Gender Gap in Academic Medicine?
- Discovering the Molecular Processes in Kidney Cells That Attract and Feed COVID-19
- Health Care Workers Struggled With Mood, Sleep in First Months of COVID-19 Pandemic
- How to Improve the Surgery Backlog During COVID-19
- Weighing Risks and Benefits for Glaucoma Patients During COVID-19
- Cancer vs. COVID: When a Pandemic Upended Cancer Care
- The Top 5 COVID-19 Vaccine Candidates Explained
- Exploring a New Weapon Against COVID-19 Cytokine Storm
- The COVID-19 Curve has Unflattened Fast. Now What?
- Lessons From the 1918 Pandemic: A U.S. City's Past May Hold Clues
- With COVID-19, Applying for Residency Could Look Different for Aspiring Doctors
- COVID-19 Care is (Mostly) Free to Patients. Should Other Vital Care Be Too?
- Even Before COVID-19, Many Adults Lacked Stable Food Supply
- Which Operations Can Restart First? New Guide Helps Hospitals Decide
- Many Could Face Sky-High Surprise Bills from Air Ambulance Flights
- Two New Devices Protect Health Care Workers, Help Patients During COVID-19
- What the SARS-CoV-2 Genome Reveals
- App Calculates Risk of Delaying Cancer Care During Pandemic
- Pivoting Critical Care Research to Help with the COVID-19 Pandemic
- When Ventilators Don't Help COVID-19 Patients, This Might
- Please Don't (Need to) Use My Work
- Nursing Homes Prepared for Pandemics, but COVID-19 Reveals Gaps
- New Report Details Strategies for COVID-19 Critical Care Surge
- Higher Levels of NETs in Blood Associated with More Severe COVID-19
- Rates of Pulmonary Complications Drastically Reduced with Newer Drug
- Personalized Device Could Support Multiple COVID-19 Patients From Single Ventilator
- With the COVID-19 Curve Flattening, It's Time to Prevent a Second Peak
- Dying Alone During a Pandemic
- As More Doctors Get Drafted for COVID-19 Inpatient Care, a Trusted Reference Becomes Free
- Switching Gears at High Speed for Hospital COVID-19 Care
- Repurposed Industrial Respirator Could Free Ventilators for COVID-19 Patients
- Emergency Departments Across Michigan Collaborate on COVID-19 Response
- The Pandemic Fight Over Plaquenil
- I'm a Family Doctor Fighting Against Fear and Struggling With Distancing While Trying to Keep My Patients Healthy
- Chloroquine, Ibuprofen and Beyond: Doctors Discuss Latest Treatments, and Treatment Rumors, For COVID-19
- Are Digestive Issues a Symptom of COVID-19?
- How Should Radiation Oncologists Manage Prostate Cancer Patients During the COVID-19 Pandemic?
- Redesigning Prenatal Care During the COVID-19 Pandemic
- 100 Years of Stopping Contagion with Science
- Fear Can Spread From Person to Person Faster Than the Coronavirus
- How Scientists Quantify the Intensity of an Outbreak Like COVID-19
- How Quickly Does Coronavirus Spread?
- What Can Hospitals Do to Prepare for COVID-19 Cases?
- How Does COVID-19 Appear in the Lungs?
- Updated Information on COVID-19: What Can You Do to Protect Against Coronavirus
- The 2019 Novel Coronavirus: Should You Be Worried?
Advice from experts:
- Is Omicron really mild?
- Suffering from Surge Stress? 9 Things to Do Right Now
- How to Care for Someone with COVID-19
- How to Have a Safe Holiday Season During the COVID-19 Pandemic
- 5 Ways to Have a Safe Halloween During COVID-19
- Feeling Helpless as the Pandemic Continues? 26 Things You Can Do to Help
- The Curve is Fattening, Not Flattening. What Can We Do?
- How to Keep COVID-19 From Invading Your "Pod" – and How to Stay Safe if It Does
- Coping and Hoping: Mental Health Tips for Trying Times
- Done with 2020? Think 2021. Sign Up for Health Insurance Now
- Should We Worry About COVID-19 Reinfection?
- How to Support Children's Emotional, Educational Needs while Remote Learning
- Making Back-to-School Decisions for Families with Underlying Health Conditions
- Feeling Stressed or Down in a World with COVID? Try This Writing Tool
- Adapting Common Fall Sports for People with Disabilities
- Rehabilitation Care is Needed for Many COVID-19 Patients
- Questions and Answers About COVID-19 Vaccine Clinical Trials
- Pandemic Hitting You in the Wallet? How to Find Health Coverage or Low-Cost Medical Help
- Making Back-to-School Decisions for Families with Underlying Health Conditions
- How to Support Children's Emotional, Educational Needs while Remote Learning
- 4 Mask Myths That Put You at Risk
- 6 Ways to Relieve Your Work from Home Fatigue
- How the Old-Fashioned Telephone Could Become A New Way for Some to See Their Doctor
- Why You Should Continue Routine Cancer Screenings During COVID-19
- How the Timing of Light Exposure Could Be Affecting Your Health
- Vaccine Q&A: From Flu to COVID-19, Everything You Need to Know
- Yes, You Should Wear a Mask. Here's How and Why
- Is it Safe to Travel in the Age of COVID-19?
- Hospitals Can't Get Back to Normal Without More Blood. Here Are 7 Ways You Can Help
- Why You Shouldn't Delay Emergency Care During COVID-19
- Staying in Motion While Staying Put
- How the Timing of Light Exposure Could Be Affecting Your Health
- Helping Your Kids Overcome Stress-Related Sleep Disruption
- Home Workspace Causing Back and Neck Pain? Try This
- Using Music in Times of Anxiety
- COVID-19: Behind the Scenes of Testing
- Everyone vs. COVID-19: How You Can Help Science Make Progress
- Staying Summer Safe During the Pandemic
- What to Expect at Your Next Pediatric Appointment
- 5 Reasons to Embrace At-Home Cardiac Rehab
- Lifting Barriers to Care for Transgender and Non-Binary Patients
- Don't Ignore a Heart Attack, Even During a Pandemic
- Your ACE Inhibitor or ARB Medication: Is There a COVID-19 Connection?
- 6 Ways to Support Children with Autism During the Pandemic
- Thrive With Your Family: Returning to "Normal"
- Thrive With Your Family: Having a Baby During a Pandemic
- Thrive With Your Family: Supporting Kids with Special Needs and Preventing Sibling Fights
- Thrive With Your Family: Teens and the Pandemic
- Thrive With Your Family: Supporting Kids With Chronic Diseases During COVID-19
- Thrive with Your Family: Processing Change
- Thrive with Your Family: Parental Self-Care, COVID-19 Anxiety and Managing Screen Time
- 5 Ways to Reduce Hearing Damage
- Getting Through a Pandemic When You Have a Mental Health Condition
- What to Know About COVID-19 if You Have Diabetes
- How to Prevent 7 Common Pediatric Injuries
- 8 Ways to Help Teens Cope with Social Distancing Blues
- 5 Ways to Manage Your Mental Health During COVID-19
- 14 Things to Do If Someone You Live With Has COVID-19
- 4 Strategies for Staying Healthy in a Quarantined World
- Viruses Live on Doorknobs and Phones and Can Get You Sick – Smart Cleaning and Good Habits Can Help Protect You
- Is Stress from COVID-19 Upsetting Your Stomach? 7 Self Comfort Tips to Try
- Social Distancing with Kids
- Cooking at Home While Social Distancing
- Flattening the Curve for COVID-19: What Does It Mean and How Can You Help?
- Need to Get Out of the House? Give Blood – It's Needed More Than Ever
- Stuck at Home? 6 Ways to Keep Your Kids Healthy and Happy
- Feeling Helpless About the Coronavirus? 11 Things You Can Do
- How to Talk to Your Kids About COVID-19
- Coronavirus, Kids and School Closings
- Hail to the Handwashers! A Musical Guide to Handwashing
- How to Prepare for COVID-19
- Cardiac Rehab Motivation in the Midst of COVID-19
Patient and employee stories:
- The COVID-19 Heroes You Haven't Met Yet: Behind the Scenes of a Pandemic
- Teen Athlete Undergoes Brain Surgery During Pandemic
- When a Pandemic Hits, But So Does a Heart Infections
- Celebrating 2020's Little Victors Graduates
- Moms on the Frontlines
- Mother's Day Wishes for 2020
- Couple Welcomes New Baby in Hospital Driveway
- One Nurse's Journey: Surviving COVID-19, Facing a Long Road to Recovery
- 'A New Take on Life' After Recovering from COVID-19
- Getting Injured, and Getting Care, During a Pandemic
- Self-Isolation: New to Us, Common for Cancer Patients
- Cardiac Rehab at Home Helps Patient During COVID-19 Pandemic
- Avoiding Crowds is Nothing New for 10-Year-Old with Bone Marrow Disease
- Conquering COVID-19: Michigan Medicine's First Patient Shares His Story
- Treating a Broken Bone During a Pandemic
- Self-Isolation: New to Us, Common for Cancer Patients
- Treating One of Their Own: COVID-19 Breaks Myth of Invincibility for Hospital Doctors
- Conquering COVID-19: Michigan Medicine's First Patient Shares His Story
- Waiting to Dive Back In