Photo by Chris Hedly
On a cold day in March, a masked and gowned volunteer — Kristin Johnson, a U-M alumna and local dentist — collects donations for the COVID-19 effort at the North Campus Research Complex. When Michigan Medicine asked the community for help, they responded with overwhelming generosity, donating tens of thousands of masks, face shields, shoe covers, gowns, gloves, boxes of hand sanitizer, food for front-line staff, and lots of love. Messages of support and gratitude poured in from all over, including thank-you notes from students at Spencer Elementary School in Brighton, third graders at A2 STEAM Elementary School in Ann Arbor, and many others.
Minding Memory
In this episode, Donovan & Matt talk with health services researcher Betsy White from Brown University about a unique new resource for researchers called the Long-Term Data Cooperative, a provider-led data sharing collaboratory that puts together nursing home EHR data from EHR vendors that can be linked to Medicare claims. This powerful tool is made available to researchers through an online application process.
Health Lab Podcast
Researchers look into a drug called proxalutamide as a potential therapeutic for the coronavirus.
Health Lab
Michigan Medicine researchers looked into a drug in development to treat prostate cancer called proxalutamide, which works by blocking an enzyme called TMPRSS2 (transmembrane protease, serine 2) that is regulated by androgen receptors, as a potential therapeutic for COVID.
Health Lab
A collaborative research effort led by the University of Michigan and the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai has resulted in a nasal vaccine adjuvant that stops infection in both young and old mice.
The Fundamentals
An interview with Dr. Steven Kunkel on research at U-M Medical School.
Health Lab
A study from the University of Michigan Center for Bioethics & Social Sciences in Medicine examined the factors that went into this decision-making—and the moral distress that often resulted from it.
