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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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Exploring the mind’s mysteries: 130 years of mental health care & innovation at U-M

When it opened in 1906 on Catherine Street near the University of Michigan’s main hospitals, the stately brick State Psychopathic Hospital meant something new in the world of mental health.
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How U-M helped bring depression out of the darkness

The history of the founding of the Eisenberg Family Depression Center at the University of Michigan, the nation's first center focused on research, community outreach and stigma reduction in depression and bipolar disorder.
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U-M launches national search for next executive vice president for medical affairs and CEO of Michigan Medicine

President Domenico Grasso and President-elect C. Cybele Raver are working together to launch the search for the university’s next executive vice president for medical affairs and CEO of Michigan Medicine.

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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