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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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U-M-led consortium to receive up to $52 million in NIH funding to study why viral respiratory infections affect children differently

A Michigan Medicine-led research consortium has secured approval for up to $52 million in federal funding to launch a multicenter study examining why some young children recover fully from viral lower respiratory tract infections while others develop severe illness or lasting problems such as asthma.
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Two U-M Researchers Earn Election to National Academy of Medicine

Two U-M Researchers Earn Election to National Academy of Medicine
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U-M Board of Regents approves construction of Nathan and Catherine Forbes Sports Medicine Institute

The University of Michigan Board of Regents has authorized the Nathan and Catherine Forbes Sports Medicine Institute project, clearing the way for a 100,000-square-foot facility that will serve as the hub of University of Michigan Health’s growing statewide sports medicine network.

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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