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Michigan Medicine is growing to care for more of Michigan than ever before, and bringing the latest research and treatments closer to you. In hospitals and clinics across Southeast Michigan, Mid-Michigan and West Michigan, we’re showing up for you where and how you need us most.
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University of Michigan Health offers unique, life-changing services that can’t be found anywhere else in the state. Thanks to experts at U-M, patients receive the care they need without having to leave the state to get the specialized treatments they need.
  • Michigan’s only hospital offering prenatal surgery
  • Michigan’s only complex airway reconstruction program
  • Michigan’s only hospital providing the complete spectrum of AFib treatments
  • Michigan’s only children’s hospital with an artificial heart program
  • Michigan’s only hospital offering multiple Phase 1 pediatric cancer trials
  • Michigan’s only hospital offering gene therapy for retinal disease

    • Our Stories

    When you need a chance, a champion, a cure, a victor—Michigan Answers. Hear from our patients, providers and researchers about how they found their Michigan Answers at Michigan Medicine.
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    William's Michigan Answer

    Kristi Brown’s first pregnancy had been going even better than she hoped. Her medical appointments had all delivered good news. She and her husband, William, were happily preparing the baby’s room, all the while sharing their excitement with friends and loved ones.

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    Featured Michigan Answers Stories

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    A leadless pacemaker making a difference

    Irwin Futernick, 66, shares his story of finding a solution to his ongoing heart problem - a solution that took him six years and led him to Michigan Medicine.
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    Finding new hope for people with vision loss

    What do you do when you know there’s a disease that’s as common as all cancers combined that steals a person’s vision? For Rajesh Rao, M.D., you conduct a groundbreaking first-in-human trial, with the goal of using an adult stem cell-based approach to restore vision. 
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    Giving childhood cancer survivors the chance to have children of their own

    What do you do when you know a disease is reversible, even curable, and yet each year millions of people still suffer from it? For Amy Rothberg, M.D., you find a whole new way to help people not only lose weight, but in some cases even reverse a diabetes diagnosis.
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    Andre’s Michigan Answer: A second surgery. And a second chance.

    Andre admits he never thought he needed a doctor. But in early 2017 at the age of 49, Andre began to rethink his doctor-less position, because he noticed some subtle changes in how he felt. Sleeping and breathing difficulties created a willingness to visit a primary care physician. After a trip to the ER revealed Andre was in early stage heart failure and that he would need the aortic valve in his heart replaced.
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    Bentley’s Michigan Answer: Life-saving care. Life-changing outcomes.

    Marguerita Booth had never heard of a child being born with their organs on the outside of their body. And yet as she laid in the darkened room of her first ultrasound of her first pregnancy, she was suddenly introduced to a condition that surprisingly affects 1 in every 3600 babies.
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    LaKendra’s Michigan Answer: Liver transplant

    Nine years into her elementary school teaching career, LaKendra Butler was ready for anything. But, after experiencing severe pain in her side, she learned she would need a new liver.

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