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The Media Team gives a glimpse of the life-saving work Michigan Medicine does every day.

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The Michigan Medicine Media Team provides assistance to news reporters, photographers, video crews and bloggers who wish to arrange phone/online interviews or in-person sessions with physicians, scientists, staff, students and patients from any area of Michigan Medicine, including the Medical School and all the facilities and programs of U-M Health.

We encourage you to contact us. Our assistance, whether in arranging a simple phone conversation or an elaborate video, makes the work go much more smoothly for all involved. Our assistance and approval for in-person visits by media is required.

Members of the media: Please call 734-764-2220 between 8 am and 5 pm Eastern Time for assistance.

After business hours, and on weekends and holidays, we have a person on call for urgent matters — see the Contact Our Media Team page for information.

We offer an RSS feed for immediate delivery of stories as they are published on our Michigan Health Lab site.

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Except where otherwise noted, all articles are published under a Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 license. You are free to copy, distribute, adapt, transmit, or make commercial use of this work as long as you attribute Michigan Medicine as the original creator and include a link to this article.

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Granger family continues support of local health care with major donation for new behavioral health hospital

A local family has pledged the largest gift in University of Michigan Health-Sparrow history for the new behavioral health hospital planned for Lansing.
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Michigan Medicine reports positive financial performance for fiscal year 2026

Michigan Medicine’s clinical enterprise reported projected positive fiscal year-end results.
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University of Michigan implants first-in-human Paradromics wireless brain-computer interface, designed to restore communication

Neurosurgeons at University of Michigan Health completed the first-in-human implantation of a Paradromics Inc., wireless brain-computer interface, or BCI, as part of a national clinical trial for patients with difficulty speaking.

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As the official source of external communications for Michigan Medicine, the Department of Communication actively seeks to promote research news from across our academic medical center.

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Find a story published more than five years ago

Research news and feature stories published since 2016 are available on this site.

To see press releases published before 2019 and research news and feature stories published before 2016, please use one of these other sources.

  • Archived Newsroom Jan. 2006 - June 2019
  • The University Record
  • Michigan Medicine newsroom on Newswise.com
  • Eurekalert.org (research news since 1999)
  • All archived U-M Health System web pages via the U-M Bentley Historical Library